Inspection
Every fire and smoke door, every 6 or 12 months, to AS 1851-2012.
Body corporate
On common property the duty sits with the body corporate, and the doors are usually the most numerous prescribed installation in the building.
Call 0485 032 510Get the inspection arranged
Tell us the building and roughly how many doors, and we will arrange the inspection.
Fire Doors Brisbane — firedoorsbrisbane.com.au — arranges these inspections with a QBCC-licensed contractor across Brisbane, Ipswich, Logan, Redlands and the Gold Coast.
In a community titles scheme the body corporate is the occupier of the common property, so the fire door obligation for corridors, stairwells, lobbies and plant rooms sits with it — in practice, with the committee and whoever manages the scheme.
Apartment entry doors are usually fire doors and usually common property, which is the point most often argued about. Establish it before the inspection, not during.
A residential tower can have several hundred fire doors. Inspected ad hoc they generate a mess of partial reports and no usable history.
A scheduled whole-building programme produces one document for the scheme, one set of tags, and a defect list the committee can actually price and act on.
Where apartment entry doors are in scope, the inspection needs access, and that means notice, scheduling and repeat visits for the ones nobody was home for.
It is worth planning as a building exercise rather than a trade booking. It is also the main reason quotes vary so much between buildings of the same size.
Every fire and smoke door, every 6 or 12 months, to AS 1851-2012.
The QBCC licence class to ask for, and how to check it.
Form 74, who signs it, and the records it rests on.
Each door identified and recorded, so the history survives.
Servicing to AS 1851-2012, and the records to prove it.
Gaps, closers, seals and hardware, back to the tested configuration.
When a leaf is beyond repair, or was never compliant.
Rated sets installed and tagged in refurbishments and fitouts.
Different job, different rating, same inspection obligation.
Intumescent and smoke seals, matched to the tested set.
Closers, hinges, latches and locks that keep the rating.
Whole-building programmes, scheduled once, reported in one document.