Fire doors
A fire door holds back fire and hot gases for a tested number of minutes, most commonly 30. The rating belongs to the whole assembly — leaf, frame, seals, hinges and latch together — not to the leaf on its own, and the leaf is thicker and much heavier than a standard internal door.
- In this range
- 15 doors
- Guide price from
- £117.60 inc VAT
Most people arrive here because building control has asked for a fire door, usually after a loft conversion or a garage conversion, and nobody has explained what that actually means beyond the two-word instruction.
The short version is that you are not buying a door, you are buying a doorset, and that fitting it correctly matters as much as buying the right one. The guidance below covers what to order and what to check; the rating itself is explained on the FD30 page.
15 doors
Prices are guide prices including VAT, taken from the smallest size and plainest finish of each door. They are not an offer to sell — confirm the price for your size and finish before ordering.
FD30 White Flush Fire Door
The plainest 30-minute fire door there is: a flat primed face over a fire-resisting core, 44mm thick, for a garage door or a loft conversion where nothing has to match.
- Primed MDF
- 44mm
- FD30
Guide price from6 sizes£117.60inc VATFD30 White Shaker Fire Door
A rated door that does not announce itself: square-edged shaker panels on a fire core, so the fire door on the landing matches the painted shaker doors either side of it.
- Primed MDF
- 44mm
- FD30
Guide price from4 sizes£136.80inc VATFD30 White 4-Panel Fire Door
A moulded four-panel face on a 30-minute fire core, for a period house where building control has asked for a rated door on a landing full of painted panel doors.
- Primed MDF
- 44mm
- FD30
Guide price from4 sizes£142.80inc VATFD30 White Vision Panel Fire Door
A 30-minute fire door with a single tall vision panel, so you can see whether anyone is coming the other way before you push it open.
- Primed MDF
- 44mm
- FD30
Guide price from4 sizes£158.40inc VATFD30 White Ladder Fire Door
A 30-minute fire door in the contemporary horizontal-panel shape, primed — the fire door for a modern house rather than a period one.
- Primed MDF
- 44mm
- FD30
Guide price from4 sizes£158.40inc VATFD30 White 6-Panel Fire Door
In a period house, a flush fire door on the hall is often the only modern thing in it. This is the 30-minute door in the Victorian six-panel outline, primed.
- Primed MDF
- 44mm
- FD30
Guide price from4 sizes£165.60inc VATFD30 Oak Fire Door
A 30-minute fire door in oak, 44mm thick. Required on doors between a garage and the house, and on habitable rooms off a stairwell in most three-storey homes.
- Engineered oak
- 44mm
- FD30
Guide price from4 sizes£174inc VATFD30 Oak Shaker Fire Door
When a loft conversion drops a rating requirement onto a landing that already has oak shaker doors, this is the door that matches them. Oak shaker panels on a fire-resisting core.
- Engineered oak
- 44mm
- FD30
Guide price from4 sizes£194.40inc VATFD30 Oak 4-Panel Fire Door
The four-panel oak shape carrying a 30-minute rating, for period houses where the rated door has to sit among original panel doors without being the thing everyone looks at.
- Engineered oak
- 44mm
- FD30
Guide price from4 sizes£201.60inc VATFD30 Oak Ladder Fire Door
The ladder shape in oak on a 30-minute core — for a contemporary house where the fire door has to match a run of oak ladder doors rather than stand apart from them.
- Engineered oak
- 44mm
- FD30
Guide price from4 sizes£218.40inc VATFD30 Oak Vision Panel Fire Door
On a landing or a stairwell, a white fire door is the only thing anyone looks at. Same single vision panel, behind an oak face.
- Engineered oak
- 44mm
- FD30
Guide price from4 sizes£220.80inc VATFD30 Oak 6-Panel Fire Door
For a hallway where the other doors are oak and a flush leaf would announce itself. The six-panel shape, on a 30-minute core.
- Engineered oak
- 44mm
- FD30
Guide price from4 sizes£223.20inc VATFD60 White Flush Fire Door
A 60-minute fire door with a plain primed face, 54mm thick. It comes from a building's fire strategy rather than from preference, and it is not simply a better FD30.
- Primed MDF
- 54mm
- FD60
Guide price from2 sizes£237.60inc VATFD30 Walnut Flush Fire Door
A 30-minute fire door faced in walnut — the rated door for a house whose other doors are walnut, where an oak or a white one would be obvious.
- Engineered walnut
- 44mm
- FD30
Guide price from4 sizes£256.80inc VATFD60 Oak Flush Fire Door
Sixty minutes of fire resistance behind an oak veneer, 54mm thick. The heaviest leaf in the catalogue, and the one least tolerant of being trimmed to fit.
- Engineered oak
- 54mm
- FD60
Guide price from2 sizes£318inc VAT
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Buy the doorset, not just the leaf
A fire door is certified as a complete assembly. The leaf, the frame, the seals, the hinges and the latch were tested together, and the certification describes that combination rather than the leaf on its own.
Buying a certified leaf and hanging it in whatever lining is already in the opening is the most common way a fire door installation ends up with no evidence behind it. Nothing looks wrong afterwards, which is precisely the problem.
Where the frame is staying, the question to answer before ordering is whether that frame is suitable and correctly fixed for the door going into it. That is a question for a competent fire door installer.
What should be on the door when it arrives
Certified fire doors carry identification, usually a label or a colour-coded plug set into the top edge of the leaf, tying the door back to its certification. It is on the top edge because that is the one surface nobody paints and nobody can see once the door is hung.
Check it is there before the delivery driver leaves, and keep the paperwork that comes with the door. If the installation is ever inspected, that documentation is the evidence. [VERIFY: the specific certification scheme and marking used by the supplying manufacturer] — schemes differ, and the marking is not standardised across all of them.
Who decides what your building needs
Not us, and not a product page. Whether an opening needs a fire door, what rating it needs, whether it needs smoke seals and whether it needs a self-closing device are judgements made against the regulations that apply to your building and its use.
In England that means Approved Document B, with separate technical standards in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Buildings in scope of the fire safety regime for multi-occupied residential premises carry further duties again. [NEEDS HUMAN SIGN-OFF] — confirm the requirement with your building control body, a fire risk assessor or a competent installer before you order.
What we can do is make sure the door you order is the one you meant to order, and that the sizing, thickness and finishing information is in front of you before you commit.
A fire door is not fitted and forgotten
Fire doors work on gaps measured in millimetres, so they drift out of specification through ordinary use. Hinges loosen and the leaf drops. A closer is taken off because it was slamming. A door gets wedged open. Carpet is fitted and the threshold gap closes up.
Any of those can undo the performance the door was bought for. Where a building has a duty to maintain its fire doors, that duty includes checking them periodically rather than at installation only. [NEEDS HUMAN SIGN-OFF] on the inspection regime that applies to your building.