Permissible Gap Under Fire Door

Underneath the fire door a gap of 8mm is traditionally acceptable although for fire doors that are required to limit spread of cold smoke only 3 mm is permissible with a threshold seal to be fitted if the gap is bigger.

Permissible gap under fire door.

However for test purposes the threshold gap is taped and some form of effective threshold seal should be used if complete smoke control is to be achieved unless the threshold gap does not exceed 3 mm at any point. Contains information on maximum gap allowances for different types of fire doors. In general the gap should not exceed 3mm along the 2 long edges and across top of the door leaf to facilitate checking of the gap on site a bwf fire door alliance scheme gap tester is available on request here. Nfpa 80 fire doors and other opening protectives.

Bs 8214 2008 code of practice for fire door assemblies states that 9 5 3 under door threshold gaps. In general clearance for those allowed gaps are as follows. How much can you cut off a fire door. Edge gaps to the jambs and head of the door should be a maximum 4mm.

Under the bottom of a door. Nothing must be cut at the top at all and the certification label must remain intact. This makes the gap between the carpet and doors around 10 15mm. The bwfgaptester is available free of charge from the bwf.

In general the gap should not exceed 3 mm. Intumescent fire seals and glazing systems. This is probably just referring to normal fd30 applications as the fire door manufacturer is not involved in upgrading fire doors to cold seal protected standard fd30 s. When speaking with manufacturers however a common statement is that a fire doors gap of up to 8 mm underneath the door is permissible.

1 8 meeting edges for a pair of doors. However the gap at the bottom of the fire doors is large enough to get my fingers underneath even though the flooring carpet has already been fitted. To facilitate the checking of this gap on site the bwf certifire fire door and doorset scheme has produced a gap tester which can be used for this purpose. The gap at the bottom of the door should be restricted to maximum of 22mm from an unfinished floor and a maximum of 10mm from a finished floor.

1 8 for more detailed gap information refer to nfpa 80 section 6 3 1 7 and section.