Fire Door Ironmongery
Fire Door Ironmongery for Life Safety and Compliance
Fire door ironmongery plays a critical role in passive fire protection. In the event of a fire, compliant hardware helps prevent the spread of smoke and flames. This supports building regulations compliance and provides protection where it’s needed most. This includes escape routes, cross-corridors, stairwells, and compartmentation doors.
This range includes fire-tested components and complete ironmongery kits, all selected to support the fire resistance rating of the doors in your facility. Whether you’re replacing damaged hardware, upgrading for compliance, or specifying for a new project, this collection provides fully tested solutions.
Fire Door Ironmongery Kits for Simplified Specification
Save time on site and reduce the risk of non-compliance with fire door ironmongery kits. These ready-made packs include compatible hardware components. They typically include fire door hinges, a compliant door closer, and a tested latch or lock.
These kits help streamline installation and ensure that everything you fit is suitable for the rating of the door, whether it’s a 30-minute or 60-minute fire-rated door. Simply add fire door seals or intumescent strips if they haven’t been supplied as part of the doorset.
Hinges That Support Fire Door Integrity
Fire-rated hinges are essential. Fitting a minimum of three CE marked hinges prevents the door leaf from bowing during a fire. They're tested to British Standard BS EN 1935 and used with intumescent hinge pads for additional fire protection, if the test evidence requires.
- Suitable for internal and external doors
- Lift-off, concealed, anti-ligature, and security models
- Wide range of finishes
Even if timber chars during a fire, the hinge fixings must stay in place. These hinges are tested to perform exactly as needed, so ensure you install them with the fixings provided.
Protect Fire Door Gaps with Fire and Smoke Seals
Intumescent seals, acoustic door seals, and drop-down thresholds provide fire and smoke protection. The intumescent strips expand in heat to close off gaps around the door frame and leaf edges to prevent the spread of fire. Cold smoke seals also reduce early-stage smoke leakage and are often combined with acoustic seals.
Choose:
- Combined smoke and intumescent fire seals
- Brush or blade smoke seals
- Surface-mounted or rebated options
Correct installation is critical. Gaps around the edge of a fire door should not exceed 4mm. Order your free fire door gap tester today so your fire doors comply with the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022.
Intumescent Protection for Ironmongery
Fire doors are only as strong as their weakest component. That includes the hardware fitted into or onto the leaf. Fire foam and items of fire door intumescent protection, such as lock jacket and hinge pads, help maintain door integrity under fire conditions.
Intumescent protection products are:
- Fire tested to BS EN 1634-1 or BS 476
- Available in sheets, wraps, and precut kits
- Required on most CE marked fire-rated ironmongery
Never assume a UKCA or CE mark is enough. Check the product's fire test evidence and use it with the specified intumescent. And, make sure not to mix and match types of intumescent due to different expansion rates and reactions to fire.
Certified Door Closers for Life Safety Routes
Fire door closers must activate reliably and close the door securely after each and every operation. Whether overhead or concealed, they must be tested to EN 1154 and EN 1155 if they are electromagnetic.
Look for:
- Minimum power size 3 for fire doors
- Electromagnetic models for hold-open doors linked to the fire alarm
- CE marking with Certifire approval
Fire Door Signs and Accessories
Fire safety signs communicate vital information for staff, visitors, and emergency responders. Standard fire signage options include:
- “Fire Door Keep Shut” for doors fitted with door closers - office doors and WC entrances
- “Fire Door Keep Locked” for usually locked shut doors - plant and storage rooms
- “Automatic Fire Door Keep Clear” where electromagnetic door closers or door holders are used - corridors, care home bedrooms, and lobbies
Fire exit signs are used to communicate the direction of the nearest fire exit, which doors are fire exits, and instructions for how to operate some items of panic hardware, like push bar exit devices.
Where letter plates are needed for fire doors, only use an intumescent letterbox tested to the same fire rating as the door. These models feature intumescent material that expands under heat and helps maintain door integrity.
The same applies to venting required in fire-only doors. Install intumescent air transfer grilles and cover plates that suit the door thickness and fire rating. Intumescent vents are supplied in different sizes depending on the free air flow volume required.
Fire-Rated Locks, Latches, and Levers
Mortice locks and latches on a fire door must be CE marked and tested to BS EN 12209. Digital locks, although not subject to the same performance standard, must still undergo fire testing and be installed with the correct intumescent protection.
Door handles should also be fire tested to BS EN 1634 or BS 476, to the same fire rating as the doorset. A selection of different finishes and designs is available from well-known, trusted brands.
Fit With Confidence. Specify With Certainty.
Browse our stocked range of fire door ironmongery to find tested, compliant products that help protect lives, preserve building integrity, and meet legal obligations. Whether you're retrofitting for fire door remediation work or specifying a new build, shop now for ironmongery that helps you protect what matters.
