Repair, installation, maintenance & NFPA 80 compliance across the Charlotte, NC metro
What the fire code actually requires of a door in North Carolina, how the duty reaches your building, and what an inspection involves.
A wedge under a fire door is the most common finding on any inspection, and the usual response — remove the wedge, send a memo — works for about two weeks. It works for two weeks because somebody propped that door for a reason, and the memo did not address the reason. Nobody props a…
Most commercial buildings in North Carolina carry an annual fire door duty. Very few owners can tell you which of three separate routes puts it there — and the route decides what you actually have to do, which doors it covers, and which edition of a standard you are being measured against. Search for this…