Inspection
Every fire and smoke door, every 6 or 12 months, to AS 1851-2012.
Tagging
A tag turns a door into a record. Without one, next year's inspection starts from nothing.
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.
Each fire and smoke door carries its own identification so its inspections, defects and repairs can be tracked over time rather than re-discovered every year.
It is the difference between a building with a maintenance history and a building with a stack of unrelated annual reports.
Plenty of Brisbane buildings have doors that have never been tagged, or were tagged years ago and have since been painted over, replaced or renumbered.
The first inspection of an untagged building takes longer, because the doors have to be identified and recorded before anything can be assessed. It is a one-off cost and it makes every year afterwards cheaper.
People say “fire door tag” for two different things, and the difference matters.
The compliance label is fixed when the doorset is made. It is usually a metal tag on the hinge edge of the leaf and another on the frame. It identifies the maker and the fire rating, under AS 1905.1. Nobody adds it later.
The inspection tag or record comes from maintenance under AS 1851-2012. It identifies the door in the building's records and carries its inspection history. That is the tag this page is mostly about.
A label says what the door was when it left the factory. It does not say the door was installed correctly, that the frame and hardware match, or that it still works. A labelled door with a wound-off closer still fails.
And a missing label is not proof the door is unrated. But it does mean the rating has to be shown another way, which takes time and sometimes cannot be done.
Painting over the compliance label is one of the most common defects found in older Brisbane buildings, usually after a repaint of the common areas.
Tell the painters before they start. Masking the labels costs nothing. Recovering a door's rating once the label is lost can cost a replacement door.
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.
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.
Tell us the building and roughly how many doors, and we will arrange the inspection.
Call 0485 032 510