Schools and colleges
We work around the school timetable, and every operative is enhanced DBS checked.
Find out moreCompliance You Can Trust, Protection You Can Rely On
Fire door inspection, installation and remediation for schools, healthcare and commercial estates. A director is on site for every job, from the first survey to the certificate.
Before you call
Fire door installation and remediation: what BS 8214 requires
A fire door only holds its rating if it is fitted within tolerance. Our guide to the British Standard covers gaps, seals and ironmongery in plain English, so you know what to check before anyone signs it off.
Read the guideBefore you call
Fire door installation and remediation: what BS 8214 requires
A fire door only holds its rating if it is fitted within tolerance. Our guide to the British Standard covers gaps, seals and ironmongery in plain English, so you know what to check before anyone signs it off.
Read the guideWhy estates teams choose Sentinel
The directors do the work
Both directors are on site. You deal with one of them from survey to certificate.
FireQual and BlueSky certified
An independent body assesses our competence. That is what your fire risk assessor and insurer will ask to see.
Proven in high-profile buildings
We have worked at The Savoy in London and for Michelin-starred and Forbes-listed clients. A school corridor gets the same tolerances and the same paperwork.
What we do
Sentinel Projects is a UK fire door specialist providing inspection, installation, remediation and passive fire stopping for schools, colleges, hospitals and commercial estates. We are FireQual-qualified and BlueSky-certified, director-led on every project, and we cover Northampton, Cambridge, Oxford, London and the rest of the UK.
Run by the people who fit the doors
Sentinel Projects is run by two directors who both still work on site, not from behind a desk. Between them they bring an NVQ Level 3 in carpentry, an NVQ Level 6 in site management, FireQual qualification, BlueSky registration and over a decade of hands-on experience in fire door installation and remediation.
Every project is director-led, from the first survey to the final certificate, which means the person who quoted the job is the person who checks it has been done properly. That standard has held on buildings ranging from Forbes-listed clients, to The Savoy in London, to schools, hospitals and managed portfolios across the country.
Both directors and all staff are enhanced-DBS background checked, which matters in schools and healthcare settings where that is not optional.
Our services
Inspection
A photographed report showing which doors pass and which need work, in a format your fire risk assessor and insurer will accept.
Find out moreRemediation
We bring existing doors up to standard, so you only replace the ones that cannot be saved. It is usually the cheaper route.
Find out moreFire stopping
Seal the gaps around your doors and services so the whole compartment holds.
Find out moreStraight answers to fair questions
“Our doors look fine.”
Fire doors fail on the details you cannot see at a glance. Gaps drift out of tolerance, seals perish, closers weaken. A survey tells you either way. You are under no obligation to book work with us afterwards.
“We already have a contractor.”
Call us when you need a second opinion, extra capacity, or a fast turnaround before an inspection deadline. Plenty of our clients started with one job when their usual supplier could not fit them in.
“We cannot afford the disruption.”
We work term-time, out-of-hours and in phases, and we have done it in live schools and occupied hospital wards.
“How do we justify the spend?”
Failing an inspection, or replacing a door twice, costs more than doing it properly once. We will give you options, we will not over-specify, and you will see the pricing from the survey onward.
How it works
Book a fire door surveySurvey
We inspect your doors and tell you what passes and what needs work.
Report and quote
You get a clear, photographed report and a transparent price.
The work
We install or remediate around your schedule.
Certification
You get the certificates and records your inspector and insurer need.
Fire door compliance by sector
HMOs and residential blocks
Licensing and quarterly-check compliance, sorted before renewal.
Find out moreNot sure if you need fire doors at all?
If your building is anything other than a single private house, the answer is almost always yes, at least somewhere in it. Fire doors are required on escape routes in commercial buildings, in the shared parts of flats and HMOs, and increasingly on individual flat entrance doors too.
Which doors, and what rating, depends on your building. Our guide breaks it down by building type, or call us for a straight answer.
Common questions
Almost certainly, unless your building is a single private house. Read our full guide on which buildings need fire doors and where, or call us for a straight answer on your building.
No. It is a paid service in its own right, and there is no obligation to book work with us afterwards.
Around half a day per door for standard work. Bigger jobs take longer, and your survey report gives a timescale before anything is booked.
Yes, through regular inspection. We can carry out the quarterly or annual checks your building needs by law and remediate anything that drifts out of tolerance.
Know where your fire doors stand within a week
Book a fire door survey, or call the team direct.