FAQ
Everything occupiers and committees ask us. If yours is not here, ring and ask it.
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.
It depends on the building. The Queensland Fire Department's advice is that fire doors in Class 5, 6, 9a and 9c buildings (offices, shops, hospitals and aged care) are inspected every 6 months, and fire doors in all other buildings, including apartments and hotels, every year. The inspection is done to AS 1851-2012.
Not in Queensland. That is the New South Wales instrument. Queensland uses an Occupier's Statement, Form 74, given to the Commissioner of the Queensland Fire Department under the Building Fire Safety Regulation 2008.
The regulation puts the duty on the occupier. That can be a tenant occupying the building. On common property it is the body corporate. It is worth establishing before the statement is due.
All of them. Each fire and smoke door is inspected individually, tagged and recorded.
At least two years, kept at or near the building, and produced when the Queensland Fire Department asks for them.
Most often a gap outside tolerance, a closer that will not latch the door, hardened or painted seals, something fixed through the leaf, or the door being propped open. A door that opens and shuts normally can still fail every one of those.
Usually. Seals, closers, hinges and furniture are almost always repairable. A leaf that has been cut, drilled through, delaminated or water damaged usually is not.
No. The statement is the occupier's to give. What we arrange is the inspection and the maintenance record that has to exist before it can honestly be signed.
No. We are a referral service. The inspection and any repairs are carried out by an independent QBCC-licensed contractor who invoices you directly.
Inspection runs roughly $18 to $35 per door and falls as door count rises. A callout fee of $450 to $650 applies below 25 doors or outside the Brisbane area. Repairs typically run $250 to $800 per door. An untagged building costs more in the first year only. Nobody can quote a building properly without seeing it.
It is a common position and the useful thing is to start. Get the doors inspected, get the defect list, and deal with it. That is a far better place to be than an unrecorded building, and it is what the regulation is asking for.
Brisbane, Ipswich, Logan, Redlands and the Gold Coast. Ring and ask if you are further out; if we cannot help we will say so.
