Specialist Building & Property Maintenance Services You Can Depend On.
FIRE DOORS — SUPPLIED & FITTED
Fire Door Supply, Installation
& Upgrades
Quirks supplies and installs internal FD30 and FD30S fire doors from the Howdens range across North Wales, Cheshire and Wirral — fitted as complete door sets with fire-rated linings, intumescent and smoke seals, the right ironmongery and the right gaps. You choose the door; we fit it and hand over the installation records.
5.0★★★★★Based on 100+ Google reviews
20+years trading
£5 millionpublic liability insurance in place
Workmanship guarantee on completed worksOne contractorAll trades under one roof
In short: a fire door only protects you when the whole door set is right — door, frame, seals, hinges, closer and gaps. We supply doors from the Howdens internal fire door range and fit them as complete door sets, in line with the manufacturer’s installation instructions, in homes, HMOs, flats and commercial buildings.
Fire doors
A fire door is only as good as its installation
A fire door is tested as a complete assembly, not as a leaf on its own. A correctly rated door hung on the wrong hinges, with missing seals or oversized gaps, can fail long before its thirty minutes. Every installation we carry out covers the full set:
- A correctly specified FD30 or FD30S door leaf
- A compatible fire-rated frame or lining
- Intumescent strips and cold smoke seals
- Fire-rated hinges, latches, locks and closers
- Correct gap tolerances around the leaf
- Sealing of the frame perimeter
- Fire door signage where required
Every door is hung in line with the manufacturer’s installation instructions — that is what keeps its fire rating valid — and we work to the Building Regulations that apply where the building is: as applied in Wales for Flintshire, Wrexham and Conwy, and in England for Chester, Cheshire and Wirral, including the Approved Document B guidance for each and BS 8214 for timber fire door assemblies. We work from your fire risk assessment, licence conditions or managing agent’s schedule.
What an FD30 fire door actually does
An FD30 fire door is designed to resist fire for 30 minutes when it is correctly installed as part of a complete door set. An FD30S door adds cold smoke seals, so it also restricts smoke spread — and smoke is what makes most escape routes unusable first.
Fire doors protect escape routes, hold fire and smoke back to the room it started in, and buy the time occupants need to get out. They are commonly required:
- Between a house and an integral garage
- In loft conversions and stair enclosures
- On bedroom and kitchen doors in HMOs
- On flat entrance doors and in communal areas
- In offices, shops, plant rooms and service cupboards
Whether a particular door in your building needs to be a fire door is set by the Building Regulations that applied to the work, your fire risk assessment or your licence conditions — if you are not sure, send us photos and we’ll tell you what you are looking at.
We supply and install any internal fire door from the Howdens range, so the doors protecting your family or tenants can look like the rest of the house:
- White moulded panelled doors — the traditional look, with a fire-rated core
- Smooth and grained flush doors — for communal areas, plant rooms and modern interiors
- Glazed doors with certified fire glass — where hallways and kitchens need light
- Oak veneer doors in a range of designs
- Primed or pre-finished, ready to decorate
If you’ve seen a door you like on the Howdens website or in a branch, send us the product name or a screenshot on WhatsApp and we’ll come back with a written quotation to supply and fit.
One contractor
One contractor, from the door to the paperwork
Plywood-faced fire door with an overhead closer, lever handle and fire door keep shut sign in a new softwood frame
New fire doors, supplied & fitted
FD30 and FD30S doors from the Howdens range, hung as complete door sets — leaf, seals, ironmongery and closer.
Hinge side of a plywood-faced fire door at floor level, with a card gap gauge between the door and the new frame
Fire door upgrades
Seals, closers, hinges, locks and gaps brought up to standard on suitable existing doors.
Oak-veneered flush fire door in a matching frame with an overhead closer, stainless pull handle and three hinges, in a white corridor
HMO & landlord packages
Bedroom and kitchen doors, closers and thumb-turn locks, aligned to your licence conditions and fire risk assessment.
Brass gap gauge held in the gap between a red fire door and its white frame during a fire door check
Inspections & maintenance
Door-by-door inspections with written reports, and maintenance visits that keep doors closing and sealing as they should.
The fire door faults we find again and again
- Gaps around the door outside tolerance
- Intumescent strips or smoke seals missing, damaged or painted over
- Doors that don’t close and latch on their own
- Closers disconnected, or removed altogether
- Hollow internal doors hung where a fire door is required
- Door leaves trimmed past what the manufacturer allows
- The wrong locks, latches or hinges
- Doors wedged open
- Split, warped or impact-damaged leaves
These are the faults that fail fire risk assessments, HMO licensing visits, homebuyer surveys and insurance inspections. If your doors have been flagged and you want a written, door-by-door record first, see our fire door inspections.
Fire doors for landlords, HMOs and commercial buildings
We supply and fit full HMO fire door packages: FD30S bedroom and kitchen doors, closers on escape-route doors, intumescent and smoke seals throughout, thumb-turn locks where needed, and fire doors to cupboards housing electrics or boilers where your assessment calls for them.
We work to your licence conditions and fire risk assessment, keep disruption down in occupied buildings, and can phase upgrades across a block or a portfolio. Our operatives hold current DBS checks, which matters in schools, care settings and occupied HMOs.
In an HMO package
- FD30S bedroom and kitchen doors
- Closers on escape-route doors
- Seals, signage and thumb-turn locks
- Phased across a block or portfolio
Had doors flagged by an assessor, the council or a survey?
Send us photos of the doors — both faces, the closing edge and the frame — on WhatsApp, together with the relevant line of the report if you have it. Most jobs we can price from photographs. We agree the door style, sizes, glazing and ironmongery with you, measure up where a job needs it, and check the gaps, seals, closer and latch on every door we hang. On completion you get the installation records and the manufacturer’s door data where required.
Once doors are in, our fire door maintenance visits keep them closing, latching and sealing as they should — buildings move, hinges wear and gaps grow.
What to send us
- Photographs of both faces of each door
- The closing edge and the frame
- The line of the report, if you have it
- Your postcode
Whose job are the fire doors?
In England and Wales, the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 makes the “responsible person” — usually the owner, landlord, employer or managing agent — legally responsible for fire safety in workplaces and in the communal parts of residential buildings, and the fire doors are part of that duty. In England, the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 added routine fire door checks in residential buildings over 11 metres: communal fire doors every three months, flat entrance doors every year.
If that duty has landed on you — a licence condition, an assessor’s report, a managing agent’s letter — send us the relevant pages with photos of the doors, and you’ll get a written quotation for exactly what it calls for.
Fitted by trained fire door installers
Our operatives are trained in BWF fire door installation awareness and hold FireQual fire door training, and every fire door inspection we carry out is done by a FireQual Level 3 qualified fire door inspector.
Final exit doors on escape routes are their own subject — panic hardware, outward opening, security — and have their own page: fire exit doors. And if you’re new to all of this, start with our fire door installation and fire safety advice guide.
DEESIDE, FLINTSHIRE — CARE HOME
Recent fire door installation project
A care home in Deeside asked us to replace forty-two fire door sets after a fire safety inspection flagged its doors. Across forty-two doors the faults were not all the same, and that shaped the job as much as the number did.
Four kinds of fault in one building
Some of the existing doors were fire doors that had reached the end of their life, with damage and with gaps that had opened up too far. Some were not fire doors at all, or had nothing to show that they were. There were missing or failed seals, closers or hinges. And some doors had glazing or panels that were not fire-rated.
Each of those calls for a different judgement. A door with nothing to show that it is a fire door cannot be relied on as one, however solid it feels. A damaged leaf cannot be adjusted back into service. Seals, closers and hinges can be replaced on a door that is otherwise sound. The decision here was to replace all forty-two as complete door sets, frame and leaf together, which gave the home one known specification at each of those openings.
One specification at every opening
With residents living in the home, the door sets were made up ahead of each visit and the work was done in stages over several visits. Every one of the forty-two is an FD30 door set to the same specification: an FD30 leaf in an FD30 frame with intumescent and smoke seals, hung on three Grade 13 fire-rated hinges, with an overhead closer. Architraves were fitted to both sides of each frame and the junctions sealed with fire-rated intumescent sealant to complete the fire stopping.
Two details differ by door. The bedroom doors are plywood-faced flush doors, each with its closer on the room side and a thumb-turn lock, so the door can be locked and still opened from inside without a key. The glazed doors have vision panels in fire-rated wired glass. That glass is supplied in the door, as part of the door set, which is the answer to glazing that was not fire-rated: a vision panel is only as good as the tested door it belongs to.
Forty-two door sets, checked and scheduled
Each door set was checked on completion for gaps, alignment and self-closing, and the bedroom doors for positive latching. Fire door keep shut signs were fitted. The home was given a door schedule and a photographic record of the completed installation, so there is a written record of what is fitted at each of the forty-two openings.
Decoration was not part of these works. The photographs show the door sets as handed over, before decoration, with everything that makes each one a fire door already in place.
This case study covers the supply and installation of forty-two FD30 door sets at one care home, carried out in stages with the residents in place. It does not cover decoration, any door that was not replaced, the fire safety inspection itself, or anything that followed it.
- Forty-two fire door sets replaced at a care home, in stages over several visits, with the residents in place
- Door sets made up ahead of each visit
- Floor protected at each opening before the old door came out
- Existing door leaves, frames and ironmongery removed and each opening prepared
- FD30 leaf and FD30 frame, with intumescent and smoke seals, at each opening
- Three Grade 13 fire-rated hinges to each door
- Overhead self-closing devices to BS EN 1154
- Plywood-faced flush bedroom doors, each with the closer on the room side and a fire-rated lever handle and thumb-turn lock
- Glazed doors with vision panels in fire-rated wired glass, supplied in the door
- Architraves fitted to both sides of each frame, with fire-rated intumescent sealant at the junctions to complete the fire stopping
- Each door set checked on completion for gaps, alignment and self-closing; bedroom doors checked for positive latching
- Fire door keep shut signs fitted
- Door schedule and photographic record handed to the home
- Waste removed and each working area left clean
- Decoration not included
Project Information
| Issue | A fire safety inspection flagged the home’s fire doors |
| Property | Care home, Deeside, Flintshire — residents in place throughout |
| Service | Fire door supply and installation — forty-two FD30 door sets |
| Findings | Old fire doors past serviceable condition; doors with nothing to show they were fire doors; missing or failed seals, closers or hinges; glazing or panels that were not fire-rated |
| Approach | All forty-two replaced as complete FD30 door sets, frame and leaf together, to one specification |
| Sequence | Door sets made up ahead of each visit; work done in stages over several visits. Each bedroom door was taken out and its replacement hung the same day |
| Works | FD30 leaves and frames with intumescent and smoke seals; three Grade 13 fire-rated hinges and an overhead closer to each door; plywood flush bedroom doors with room-side closers and thumb-turn locks; glazed doors with fire-rated wired-glass vision panels; architraves and perimeter fire stopping |
| Outcome | Each door set checked for gaps, alignment and self-closing, and the bedroom doors for latching; signs fitted; door schedule and photographic record handed to the home |
| Limitations | Decoration not included. One care home only |
| Location | Deeside, Flintshire |
Recent fire door projects, and where we fit fire doors
A Chester school: one pair of glazed doors replaced with FD30S double doors, in a school holiday, after the school’s fire risk assessment found the old pair non-compliant.
Bromborough: a flat entrance door that was never a fire door, replaced with a complete FD30 door set — frame, seals, closer and a fire-rated letterplate.
Another Flintshire care home: sixteen old fire doors replaced as complete FD30 door sets, room by room, with the residents in place throughout.
Llandudno: a flat entrance door off the shared hallway of a converted Victorian house, replaced with a complete FD30 door set after the building’s fire risk assessment called for a fire door.
We also fit fire doors in Wrexham.
What customers say about our fire doors
Five of the reviews our fire door customers have left on Google.
★★★★★5.0 · 100+ Google reviews★★★★★“Very pleased our fire doors were completed fast and professional from start to finish, measuring was straightforward and were helpful explaining payments and paperwork. The work was carried out with a clean work environment, would recommend.”
★★★★★“Fire door fitted today by Ethan. Perfect job and such a friendly guy! Would definitely recommend Quirks.”
★★★★★“The workmanship was excellent and completed as arranged. Professional throughout the process, highly recommended.”
★★★★★“Ethan was professional throughout the service. Would highly recommend.”
★★★★★“Nathan came to fit a fire door to my attic conversion. He was polite and very helpful … Very professional. Really happy with job and definitely recommend this company to any customer.”
Questions people ask about fire doors
How much does a fire door cost, supplied and fitted?
It depends on how many doors you need, the style and finish you choose from the Howdens range, glazing, whether your existing frames can stay, the ironmongery each door needs and any making good and decoration. Most jobs we can price from photographs — send yours on WhatsApp or by email and we’ll come back with a written quotation.
Do all fire doors need self-closers?
Doors protecting an escape route generally need to close themselves, and HMO licence conditions usually require closers on those doors. Not every fire door in every building needs one — your fire risk assessment or licence sets it out. We fit and adjust closers as part of the door set.
Can you hang a fire door in my existing frame?
Sometimes. The frame or lining has to be suitable for the door’s rating, sound, and compatible with the seals and hinges — where it is, an upgrade to the existing frame can be the economical answer. Where it isn’t, the right job is a complete door set, and we’ll tell you which it is before anything is priced.
Can fire doors be glazed?
Yes. We supply FD30 doors with certified fire glass — full glazed panels for hallways and kitchens that need light, and vision panels for corridors and offices. The glazing system is part of the door’s rating, which is why glass is never cut into a fire door after the fact.
Do you take the old doors away?
Yes — old doors and ironmongery are removed and disposed of as part of the job, and we leave the openings made good.
Where are fire doors required in an ordinary house?
Most commonly between the house and an integral garage, and on the stairway enclosure when a loft conversion takes a house to three storeys. Rented houses, HMOs and flats carry further requirements. If you’re not sure what applies to your building, send us photos and we’ll tell you what you’re looking at.
Written and reviewed by Michael Quirk, Director.
Request a quotation
Tell us how many doors and where they are, and attach your photographs: both faces, the closing edge and the frame of each door.
Send us a photo
Send us a photo, we’ll take it from there
You don’t need to describe the problem down the phone. A photo tells us most of what we need.
- 1WhatsApp or email us photos.A couple of pictures of the problem and your postcode.
- 2We reply with what it looks like and what happens next.Where the photos show enough, that’s a price. If they don’t, we’ll ask for a few more.
- 3You get a written quotation.A clear scope of works, so you know what is included.
- 4We do the work and leave it clean.
Fire doors — send us photographs
Get a written quotation for fire doors across North Wales, Cheshire and Wirral
Send photos of your doors on WhatsApp or by email and we’ll come back with a no-obligation written quotation. We come back to you as soon as we can.