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Overhead & Rolling Door Inspections

Overhead & Rolling door inspections are an integral part of your building’s overall fire protection system. An operating overhead or rolling door, just like a properly operating fire damper, is a key component to the compartmentalization of a building to stop the spread of deadly fire, smoke and toxic fumes. If the overhead and rolling door assembly isn’t inspected or working properly, your facility is at risk.

 

Rolling Door Inspections

Experienced building owners and facility managers do not overlook Overhead & Rolling Door Inspections. National Fire Protection Association standards NFPA 80 require business owners and property managers to have their rolling steel fire doors and sliding fire doors inspected and tested at a minimum once a year. Written documentation of these inspections and tests are to be kept. LSS Life Safety Services specialize in National Accounts with multiple facilities nationwide.

All fire rated doors and opening protectives must be tested and inspected annually. NFPA 80 publishes these guidelines to help ensure life safety and property protection. Some of the topics covered in the NFPA 80 are operability, door blockage, replacement, labeling and removal for rolling fire doors, fire shutters and fire protective openings.

Facilities Where Overhead Rolling Doors are Often Found:

• Industrial Facilities
• College & Universities (Physical Plants, Residence Hall delivery areas, etc.)
• Hospitals & Healthcare Facilities
• Commercial Office Buildings’ Loading Docks
• Pharmacies’ Rolling Service Doors

  Fire and Smoke Door Repair and Installation

  Fire Door Repairs

  
  

  Following the fire door inspection in your facility, you will be provided with a detailed list of deficiencies that will need to be repaired. LSS offers fire door repairs based on NFPA 80. Common minor repairs include:

• Gap adjustment
• Installation of smoke seals
• Hinge replacement
• Silencer replacements
• Strikes for locksets and panics

If the fire door cannot be repaired, our expert technicians will assess the door and provide the necessary information for you to make an informed decision about complete fire door replacement or major repair.

90% of fire rated doors inspected are not in compliance with NFPA 80  (Per LSS inspection data)

Top Fire Door and Smoke Door Deficiencies:

1. Painted or missing fire door labels
2. Poor clearance dimensions around the perimeter of the door in the closed position
3. Kick down door holders
4. Auxiliary hardware items that interfere with the intended function of the door (barrel bolts and deadbolts, etc.)
5. Fire doors blocked to stay in the open position
6. Area surrounding the fire door assembly blocked by furniture, equipment, and/or boxes
7. Broken, defective or missing hardware items (latch bolt, and/or strike plate, closer arms, cover plates, etc.)
8. Fire exit hardware installed on doors that are not labeled for use with fire exit hardware
9. Missing or incorrect fasteners
10. Bottom flush bolts that do not project ½” into the strike

Fire Door Commissioning

During the commissioning and retro-commissioning process of fire doors, LSS will perform our complete detailed fire door inspection. The fire door certification commissioning report will include:

• Detailed inventory of the location, rating of every fire and smoke door
• Door functional checklist
• Details regarding specifications and how they relate to the frames, doors, hinges/pivots, door bolts, locks, door closers, panic hardware, astragals, and numerous other door and frame components
• Digital pictures of deficiencies discovered during the commissioning process

  Fire Door Labeling

  Fire Rated Door Labels

  According to our inspection data, painted or missing fire rated door labels are two of the top ten reasons for deficiencies in fire doors and frames. NFPA 80 requires that all fire door openings (both doors and frames) are required to have a fire rated certification label clearly visible for the AHJ and should not be removed or painted over during the life of the building.

  Fire Door Labeling

  

   

  LSS can help coordinate fire door recertification with one of the few fire door certification entities in the country. Such technicians will analyze and review the material and construction of the three major components of the fire door assembly – the door, the frame, and the kick plate, and apply the appropriate time-rated label as required by code.