The Fire Door Workbench
Every fire door decision — as a tool, not a wall of text.
The UK's free fire-door toolkit: builders and calculators that turn the regulations into an answer for your building, and interactive explainers that show how a certified doorset actually works. Every output cites the regulation it comes from. Free, no sign-up.
Free fire door tools
Fire Door Schedule Builder
Answer four questions about your building and get a doorset schedule — the rating typically needed at each door location, smoke seals, and how often to check it, each row cited. Print it to brief a specifier or check a quote.
Build a schedule →Fire Door Compliance Checker
Answer three questions about your role and building. Get your legal duties — checking intervals, record-keeping, information duties — each with its legal citation.
Check your duties →UK Regulations Comparator
Fire door law compared side by side across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — building regs, duty holder, check intervals and door classification, every point sourced.
Compare the nations →Fire Door Cost Calculator
Estimate supply and installation costs from typical 2026 UK market ranges — by door type, supply-only or installed, and quantity. Every figure sourced, never a sales quote.
Estimate a cost →Fire Door Inspection Checklist
The 25 checks a competent fire door inspection covers — certification, gaps, seals, closers, glazing, signage — as a printable checklist with pass criteria.
Open the checklist →Fire Door Register & Inspection Log
A ready-to-use register — one row per door for location, rating, check date, defects and action — to evidence the record-keeping duty under Regulation 10 and the Fire Safety Order.
Open the template →Regulation 38 Handover Template
The fire safety information a fire door handover should contain — door schedule, certification, seals, hardware and maintenance — as a checklist to assemble or demand a complete Regulation 38 pack.
Open the template →Interactive explainers
See how it works — not just what the rule says.
The parts of a certified doorset, what they do in a fire, and how the law's duties map to the documents that discharge them.
Anatomy of 60 minutes
Scrub through a fire and watch the intumescent seal expand to close the gap and hold the line — integrity (E) in motion.
Open the explainer →Every duty, its document
The five statutory duties on a fire door, each mapped to the exact evidence that discharges it — pick a duty and see which.
Open the ledger →Which rating?
Move across FD30, FD60, FD90 and FD120 and see the minutes, typical leaf and where each rating is specified — integrity, not insulation.
Compare ratings →