Shared areas
Stair, lobby and corridor doors
Doors on routes shared by several occupiers are commonly instructed by the landlord or its agent. Check how your building is actually arranged.
Leased Non-Domestic Premises
Fire Doors for Commercial Landlords
For freeholders and landlords of leased offices, shops, industrial units and multi-let commercial buildings, the hard part of a fire door action is rarely the door itself. It is working out which doors sit with whom, getting access through occupied units, and returning a record every party can rely on. Parsec Fire Doors scopes and carries out the repair, remedial and replacement work once those boundaries are clear.
Control, Repair and Cost Are Separate Questions
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the responsible person is broadly the employer for a workplace, or otherwise the person in control of the premises, and others can hold duties to the extent of their control or maintenance obligations. More than one person can hold duties in the same building. A lease is a separate document: it may allocate who repairs, who maintains and who pays. Those answers do not always line up, and leases differ widely.
The Home Office fire safety risk assessment guide for offices and shops (updated 12 September 2023, accessed 22 October 2026) is aimed at those with duties in such premises. It is guidance, not a statement of what your lease says. This page is general information, not legal advice: check the lease and building arrangements, and take advice where the position is uncertain. For the role-by-role picture, see who is responsible for fire doors.
Sorting the Door List by Who Instructs
Before we price, we ask the instructing party to mark each door in the action list. That keeps the quotation aligned with the people who will approve it, and stops work stalling halfway because a tenant was never asked.
Boundary
Unit entrance doors
The door between a unit and a shared route can fall either side of the line depending on the lease. Mark these individually rather than assuming.
Within a unit
Doors inside a tenant's premises
Internal doors within a demise are often the occupier's concern, but some leases reserve them. We can quote these as a separate section if asked.
Building fabric
Plant, riser and service doors
Service and riser doors may be reserved to the landlord even when they open off a tenant area. Confirm access and keys before booking.
Fit-Outs, Alterations and Changes of Tenant
Commercial fire doors are often affected by tenant fit-outs: new access control, cut-in hardware, signage fixings, replaced closers or a door simply removed and rehung elsewhere. A change of tenant or a lease ending is a practical moment to look at the doors in question, because access is easier and the condition can be recorded.
An altered door does not automatically need replacing. Where the construction and evidence allow it, components can be corrected; where they do not, a doorset of known specification is the sounder answer. Our repair or replacement guide sets out that reasoning, and damage, holes and alterations covers the common changes.
Access Across Occupied Units
Most commercial landlord jobs involve doors behind someone else's trading hours, security procedures or keyholding. We agree the sequence with the building manager and each occupier contact in advance, keep shared escape routes usable, and record any door we could not reach rather than treating it as done.
- Named access contact for each unit and for shared areas
- Trading hours, security rules and permit requirements stated up front
- Shared-route doors worked one at a time
- No-access doors recorded as outstanding, with the return arrangement agreed first
- Variations approved by the party paying for that door before work proceeds
What to Send for a Quotation
The more the action list is tied to door references and parties, the more useful the quotation. Useful information includes the fire risk assessment action list or inspection report, a door list with locations, photographs of both faces and the hardware, any known product information, the party instructing each door, and occupier access constraints.
We price door by door, separating repairs from replacements, so the quotation can be reconciled against your document. If you need a formal inspection or reinspection first, that is arranged through an external specialist partner. For cost structure, see fire door costs for commercial premises.
Records for the Landlord and the Occupiers
On completion we return a door-referenced works record covering what was agreed in the quotation, with completed, outstanding and excluded items distinguishable. It can be shared with the occupiers whose doors were involved. See records and close-out for what a useful record contains. When you are ready, send the details through our enquiry form.
Related Pages
Related commercial and building-type pages.
Frequently Asked Questions
Send the Door Actions for Your Building
Attach the action list or report, mark which party instructs each door and tell us about occupier access. We will review the scope and provide a written door-by-door quotation.