Fire Door Inspections – Our Process

Our factory-trained and certified technicians perform the visual and operational inspection, testing, and certification of your facility’s fire doors. Once we determine your fire door complies, a “Fire Door Certification Tag” is attached to each door indicating the date the fire door was inspected, tested, and passed.

A copy of your Rolling Fire Door Inspection and Drop Test results are kept in our company’s records in case of an emergency or any compliance questions. We will then give you a courtesy call once a year to schedule your Rolling Fire Door Inspection and Drop Test service to ensure your fire doors comply with NFPA 80 and remain in good working order.

Visual Inspection:

Ensure Proper Installation

• Attachment to jambs and proper bolts, washers, and expansion anchors are as required.
• Curtain, barrel, and guides are aligned, level, and true.
• Expansion clearance.
• Fusible link locations.

Check for Damaged, Incorrect, or Missing Parts

• Slats – bent slats, cracked beads, holes, and torn ends.
• End Locks – missing, broken, bent or loose.
• Bottom Bar – bent angles, loose bolts, correct starter slat.
• Guide Assembly – bent guides, loose bolts, missing fiber washers, and bell mouths.
• Hood and Flame Baffle – bent, dented, rubbing, curtain, holes, tears, attachment to the wall, intermediate supports.
• Brackets and Operating Mechanism – worn, misaligned, or badly meshed gears, broken sprockets, or bent drive and spring shafts.
• Automatic Closing and Governor Assemblies – drop or release arms tied, blocked or jammed.
• Fusible Links – sash chain, S-hooks, eyes not painted, coated with dust or grease, kinked or pinched, twisted and no longer flexible, raceways are clear and free from obstruction.

*Fusible links are recommended to be replaced annually. The date stamp on the link shall be used to determine the annual replacement.

Ancillary Equipment

• Smoke detectors/release devices – check batteries annually.
• Control Panel – Check all functions.
• Miscellaneous other equipment should be checked for proper operation

Operational Inspection

• Operation of the door is normal in the full range of motion, up and down, and ease of operation.
• Spring tension is correct.
• Free movement of the curtain guides.

Fire Door Drop Test

• Please Note: If any component of the door and the installation listed above do not pass the inspection, they must be replaced or fixed before conducting the Drop Test!
• Clear area around and on both sides of the door being tested.
• Only personnel allowed in the area of the fire door being tested are those conducting the test. Post personnel on both sides of the door so no one enters the area!
• Drop Test per manufacturer’s written instructions.
• Speed of the curtain during the test must fall at least 6″ per second and not more than 24″ per second. (ie, a 10-foot-tall fire door must fall between 6″ per second = 20 seconds & 24″ per second = 5 seconds)
• Full closure of the curtain with the bottom bar resting on the sill or floor within the allowed time frame.
• Reset fire door per manufacturer’s written instructions.
• Drop test the fire door one more time, same as above, to demonstrate resetting of the fire door was properly conducted.
• Reset fire door per manufacturer’s written instructions. The Drop Test is now complete and the door should be in proper working condition.

We Provide:

• A written Rolling Fire Door Inspection Report.
• A “Fire Door Certification Tag” is attached to each tested fire door indicating the date the fire door was inspected, tested and passed.
• A copy of your Rolling Fire Door Inspection and Drop Test Results are kept in our company’s records in case of an emergency or any compliance questions.

*Note: Ultimately acceptance of a fire door is the decision of the authority having jurisdiction as defined by NFPA 80. NFPA 80 defines the AHJ as the organization, office, or individual responsible for approving equipment, an installation or a procedure.

Code administration, final code interpretation, and final product approval fall under the Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ). Building code officials, Fire Marshals, and state or federal government officials may be AHJs.