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A fire door inspection form for blocks of flats. Check each door for damage, glazing, hinges, seals, gaps and whether it closes fully, then record the round totals, the 12 month flat entrance door record, remedial work and the information given to residents. Film each door with Walk Cam and the AI inspector suggests pass, fail or cannot assess for you to confirm. Every question is listed below, and you can fill the live form in on this page.
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A fire door inspection checklist should record each door's location and type, any damage or alteration, glazing, hinges, intumescent strips and smoke seals, the gaps around the door and whether it closes fully into the frame. GOV.UK guidance says the gap between door and frame should never be more than 4 mm, except at the bottom. Failed doors need a remedial action and date.
Last updated . Facts checked by the SiteSurvey team on 24 October 2026 against regulation 10 of the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022, GOV.UK fire door guidance and the regulation 10 fact sheet.
Record each floor and each door on a phone as you go. Measure the leaf from a photo, gauge the gaps, photograph each defect, and let the form count the doors checked, failed and to fix today, floor by floor and for the round.
Hold an A4 sheet flat on the door, tap its long edge, then the top and bottom of the leaf. Rounded to 10 mm, it identifies the door set or briefs a replacement survey; it is not for making a leaf. It works on web forms in any phone browser today, and the app version is on its way.
How measuring from a photo works →A photo cannot measure a 3 mm gap, so the form asks for the gaps from a gauge and flags any over 4 mm, and the gap under the door against its own limit. Film the edges with the gauge in shot and the AI inspector reads it and suggests a verdict for you to confirm.
How the AI inspector works →
Each floor counts its doors checked, failed and to fix today, and the round adds them up with the share that passed and the doors still to check. A door to fix today brings up a reminder before you leave.
How calculated fields work →A quarterly check of a fictional block of flats above 11 m: five doors over three floors, a stair door that will not latch, a corridor door with a 12 mm gap underneath and a damaged seal, and a flat with no access after four dated attempts. Open it as a filled-in form, or switch to a blank copy and try it yourself.
New: AI inspector · Coming in the next app update
This form's Walk Cam field ships with an inspector brief: four points and 18 checks drawn from the regulation 10 quarterly checks. Film a point on the SiteSurvey app and six to ten seconds later the AI suggests pass, fail or cannot assess, with each defect boxed on a still from your clip. You confirm every point. Only confirmed verdicts and accepted photos reach the door record and the report.
Hold record and film what the point card asks for: the whole door, the gaps with a gauge in them, the seals, the door closing. Let go and move on while it checks.
Pass, fail or cannot assess, with a short summary and each finding boxed in red on a still from your clip. If it could not see enough it says what to film instead.
Accept the verdict or change it to the one you would give. Dismiss a finding you disagree with and add a note. The report prints your confirmed verdict and names you, not the model.
Film the whole door closed, then both faces, the door reference and the signage.
Show the gap under the door and at the head and both edges, with a gauge or ruler in the gap.
Show the intumescent strips and cold smoke seals all the way round the leaf or frame.
Open the door fully and let it go, then open it about 75 mm and let it go, so it is clear whether it closes and latches each time.
The AI never estimates a gap by eye. With no gauge in shot the gap checks come back as cannot assess and it asks for the gauge shot. A wedged, propped or tied door is a fail. Whether a door is the right type for its location stays with the fire risk assessment, as it does on the rest of this form.
It is coming in the next SiteSurvey app update, in early access. Switched on per company during early access: ask support to turn it on for your account. Clips are assessed by Google Gemini and are not used to train Google's models. Included in the subscription, with no per-clip charge.
Answer a few questions and watch it adapt. Your answers are not saved, and any photos you add are deleted within the hour.
This is the real form as your team would use it: questions appear as you answer, scores work themselves out and you can add photos and signatures. No sign-up needed. Or open a completed example to see every answer, photo and score filled in.
Want to see one filled in? See a completed fire door inspection report (PDF), made by SiteSurvey from a fictional site visit.
Walk Cam route · four guided clips
Show door identity, leaf and frame, accessible seals and hardware, then document what needs a proper operational check.
Identify the building and door. Film the leaf, frame, accessible seals and hardware without alteration. Refer concerns to the Responsible Person and complete any required closer test separately.
Show the door in its corridor context and record its unique ID outside any personal footage.
A staged communal-style door is visible; its real specification is unknown.
From a safe position, show accessible edges and obvious damage without claiming gap measurements.
The staged leaf and frame are shown; gaps are not measured.
Show accessible seals, hinges and glazing details without removing or disturbing components.
An exposed door edge and hinge are illustrated; how the synthetic view was obtained and component performance are not established.
Show the closer and finish with a context view. A separate procedure must verify operation.
A closer location is illustrated, but the closing action was not tested.
A fictional six-page example with the four points, twelve stills from the clips, observations, follow-up actions and the limits of a visual record.
View the visual evidence (PDF) ↗ · Download the full sample report
Video shows visible condition only. It cannot prove fire resistance, certification, measured gaps, seal suitability or closer operation. The Responsible Person must complete applicable checks and records separately. Example footage was generated in Google Flow and the observations are scripted; no real site is shown. Walk Cam works inside any form in the app. How Walk Cam works · All visual inspections
For teams
Paper or a spreadsheet works for the odd job. When your team does this every week, SiteSurvey keeps every visit in one place and turns each one into a report you can send.
Your team completes the fire door inspection on site in the SiteSurvey app on iPhone, iPad and Android phones and tablets. The project name and address fill in for them, it works without signal, and it syncs when the device is back online with photos kept against the question they answer.
Customers and subcontractors do not need the app: send them a link and they can fill it in from any browser.
Door by door checks (gaps, seals, closers, signage, glazing), 12 month flat entrance door record and remedial work list. 7 sections and 89 questions. Follow-up questions and guidance appear only when an answer calls for them, so the person on site never sees the ones that do not apply.
This is a starting point, not a fixed form. Once it is in your SiteSurvey account you can reword any question, add or remove questions, sections and answer options, and add your own logo, so it fits the way your team works and the jobs you do.
Add this form to a project in SiteSurvey and it fills in what the project already knows, so nobody on site retypes it and every form on the job uses the same names. Anything filled in can still be changed.
Which building, which doors and who is checking them.
Filled in from the project in SiteSurvey.
Optional. Film a guided walk-through on the SiteSurvey app. The AI inspector reviews each point and suggests a verdict for you to confirm.
One entry for each door. The checks are visual and need no tools.
For example Ground floor, Level 3 landing or Flats 7 to 12
For example Flat 12 entrance or stair core door
From a photo, hold an A4 sheet flat on the door as the reference. The result is rounded to 10 mm: enough to identify the door set or brief a replacement survey, not to make a leaf. Measure the gaps with a gap gauge.
Count the doors so the record shows what was and was not checked.
The running total for the block over the last 12 months.
What needs repair, who will do it and by when.
Residents must be told how to look after fire doors.
A completed fire door inspection report, made by SiteSurvey from a fictional site visit: every answer, the photos, the guidance that applied and the sign-off, ready to send as a PDF.
In England, regulation 10 of the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 applies to multi-occupied residential buildings with a top storey more than 11 metres above ground. There, communal fire doors must be checked at least every 3 months, and the responsible person must use best endeavours to check flat entrance doors at least every 12 months. For other buildings the regulation sets no frequency, so follow the fire risk assessment.
Record the steps you took. For each flat entrance door the form asks whether access was given, and if not, whether you wrote, visited, phoned or offered a choice of times. The 12 month record then lists the flats where access was not granted and what will be tried next.
GOV.UK guidance gives the industry standard that the gap between the door and the frame should never be more than 4 mm, except at the bottom. It gives no figure for the gap under the door, so the form asks for the limit from the door's own documents or the fire risk assessment and flags any gap over it.
Regulation 10 requires residents to be told that fire doors should be kept shut when not in use, that self-closing devices should not be tampered with, and that faults or damage should be reported immediately. The form records whether this was given to all residents in the current 12 month period, when and how.
No. GOV.UK guidance says the checks should be simple and basic, and the form's door checks are visual and need no tools. Whether each door is the right type for its location is a matter for the fire risk assessment, and the form lets you refer anything to the assessor.
In the SiteSurvey app, yes. The form works offline, takes photos of each door and defect, collects the inspector's signature and produces a PDF report or share link when it syncs.
It can help. This form's Walk Cam field carries an inspector brief with four points and 18 checks: the door and signage, the gaps, the seals and hinges, and the closer. Film each point in the SiteSurvey app and the AI inspector suggests pass, fail or cannot assess within about ten seconds, with each defect boxed on a still from the clip. It reads a gap only when a gauge is in shot and says cannot assess rather than guess. It is coming in the next SiteSurvey app update, in early access.
No. It suggests and the inspector decides. Every point has Accept and Change, every finding has Dismiss, and nothing reaches the form or the report until the inspector confirms it. The report names the inspector and carries the line AI-assisted inspection, verdicts confirmed by the inspector. Whether a door is the right type for its location remains a matter for the fire risk assessment.
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