The proper labeling of fire rated assemblies is a vital part of life safety.
Field labeling of fire doors.
20 45 60 90 or 180 minute labels or smoke labels where required.
Lf your building s fire doors or frames are missing time rated test labels you may have received or are at risk for a fire code violation not to mention a safety hazard for your occupants.
Travel expenses are charged to the client at the fire door solutions cost.
Field labeling verifies conformity of a fire door and provides evidence that the product has been constructed to industry ansi standards.
They are two very different inspections and require different types of credentials.
Field labeling inspection should not be confused with a fire door assembly inspection.
Field labeling and relabeling are terms that describe the process for applying new labels to installed existing fire rated door frames and door leaves.
These products are identical to their properly labeled counterparts they were simply shipped into the field to the job site.
The former term field labeling is most accurately used to describe the practice of applying labels to fire rated door frames and door leaves that were not labeled during the manufacturing and or fabrication processes.
A minimum fee of 850 for a field label job is required.
After analysis of these factors the technician will apply the appropriate time rated labels to the components.
Fire door field certification.
We know how frustrating it can be to wait months for the large testing labs to respond to your requests for field labeling of fire doors.
Older openings including doors windows and frames are usually not labeled and therefore are not fire rated and most likely need to be replaced.
If not your fire doors may be the catalyst that turns a routine ahj inspection into a long and intrusive review of your life safety practices and protocols.
How do you calculate the cost of visiting a facility to re label their doors and frames.
Instead of replacing the door or frame guardian s field labeling evaluation service offers a much more cost effective solution.
The use of approved third party agencies to perform field re labeling for fire rated doors and frames is often a cost effective alternative to replacement of non compliant components while verifying the integrity of the opening.
After that the client is responsible for 50 per label applied.
Field applied labels must include at minimum the words field inspected or field labeled the words fire door or fire door frame the marking of a third party certification agency the fire protection rating a unique serial number if provided by the listing agency and the fire test standard designation to which the assembly was tested.
