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Hotel Corridor Fire Door Specification: a Scene Walkthrough
A corridor fire door is scheduled as an assembly, not as a panel. This guide takes a rendered catalogue corridor scene and walks the four items that belong in the schedule: clear width, rating class, the leaf, frame and hardware set together, and the finish. The values quoted are the catalogue values for the series in the scene.
Rendered hotel corridor scene
The scene
This is a rendered application scene from the catalogue: a guestroom corridor panelled in warm timber, with single-leaf fire doors set into steel frames along the wall and a room number at each leaf. The doors read as part of the corridor joinery, which is how a working door should look on a hotel floor. The render carries the scene only, and it is not a photograph of a built corridor. The specification logic below is what a buyer takes to a quotation, and it applies whatever the corridor is.
What a corridor fire door specification has to state
Four items belong in the schedule. The first is the corridor clear width and the leaf width that keeps the egress path open with the door standing at 90 degrees. The second is the rating class the corridor requires, written as the project requirement for the destination market rather than read as a factory certificate; the catalogue marks the range at 20, 45, 60 and 90 minutes, and the value is fixed at design stage against the local code.
The third is the door set as one specification, since a leaf on its own proves nothing without the frame and the hardware it was built with. The fourth is the finish, which on a guest floor takes trolley traffic and cleaning every day.
How the door set is built up
The leaf is a wooden build faced in laminate, HPL or wooden veneer, carried on a B1 flame-retardant board over a honeycomb core, a sandwich that stays flat across a wide leaf. The frame is timber as standard, with one model pairing the wooden leaf to a steel frame where the opening takes heavier traffic. Hardware is scheduled with the leaf: a concealed closer at the head, a fire-certified viewer, a fire-certified electronic lock, heavy-duty hinges, a latch and a lever handle. An intumescent strip in the frame and a fire-rated door bottom hold the smoke line, and the leaf hangs on three hinges so a tall door does not drop at the lock stile.
How to replicate this specification
Send the corridor width, the door leaf sizes and the quantity, and the quotation returns with the dimensional pack, the hardware schedule and the document set the local authority asks for. Hinge and lock pockets are cut in the factory, so the leaf lands square and the clearances hold on site. A finished sample door and a cut profile are available before an order is placed. Catalogue finishes run to light oak, natural oak, walnut, dust grey and charcoal, with RAL matching on request.
FAQ
Frequently asked
What does the corridor image show?
A rendered catalogue scene: a warm timber-panelled guestroom corridor with single-leaf fire doors in steel frames and a room number beside each leaf. It is a render from the fire range rather than a photograph of a built hotel floor.
Which rating class should we specify?
The catalogue marks the range at 20, 45, 60 and 90 minutes. Which one a corridor needs is a property of that corridor and the local code, so the rating class is written into the specification as a project requirement and confirmed at design stage.
Why must the door be specified as a set?
Because the leaf, the frame, the closer and the lock work as one assembly in a fire. The door arrives as a complete set with the hinge and lock pockets cut at the factory, so what is installed matches the build the schedule was written against.
Can the doors be matched to the corridor joinery?
Yes. The leaf face runs to laminate, HPL or wooden veneer, with five catalogue tones from light oak to charcoal and RAL matching on request. One model is drawn as a soundproof build, listed at STC 28 to 45 dB as a catalogue rating.
Keep going
Related in the range
Send your opening schedule
Series, glazing and finish come back as one quotation, with the full dimensional pack on PDF and CAD on request.