Fire Door Compliance for Schools and Colleges
Sentinel Projects inspects, installs and remediates fire doors for schools, colleges and education estates across Northampton, Cambridge, Oxford, London and the rest of the UK. We plan the work around your calendar and send teams who are used to working on occupied education sites. We are FireQual-qualified and BlueSky-certified.
The compliance sits with you
As a business manager, estates lead or bursar, you are often the named Responsible Person for fire safety across the site. That means the fire doors, the records and the consequences of a failed inspection land on your desk.
Education buildings are demanding. They are occupied for most of the year, full of children, and covered by design guidance that expects fire doors to perform. When the fire risk assessor or an Ofsted-adjacent inspection asks about your doors, you need a record that answers the question. We provide fire door inspections, installation and remediation scheduled around the school calendar, and our guide to inspection cost helps with budgeting.
Built around the school calendar
The single biggest barrier to fire door work in schools is disruption. We remove it by planning around you:
Major works scheduled for holidays and half-terms
Smaller works and inspections in term-time evenings
Phased programmes across a multi-building site
DBS-checked teams, briefed on safeguarding and site rules
Your teaching day continues while the work happens around it.
What we do for education estates
Inspection
of communal, corridor, hall and flat-entrance doors, with a photographed report
Find out moreWe work to the Department for Education's fire safety design guidance for schools and to the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.
Education and public estates
We also work across colleges, further education and wider public estates, including secure and MOD-adjacent sites where the same standards and discretion apply. If you manage an estate of this kind, ask us about your requirements.
How it works
Book a fire door surveySurvey
We assess your doors around the school day.
Report
You get a photographed report and a prioritised plan.
Works
We deliver in holidays or out-of-hours.
Certification
You get the records for your fire safety file.
Common questions
Book a survey for your school
Free guide, no email required
Installation and Remediation of Fire Doors
What BS 8214:2026 requires, and how to tell whether an installation has been done correctly. The same guide applies whichever part of the country your building is in.