Fire doors · Fowey

Certified composite fire doors installed in Fowey.

FD30, FD30S and FD60 doorsets for flats, HMOs, landlord portfolios and commercial property across Fowey (PL23) — PAS24 secure, third-party certified, with full compliance documentation on handover.

Anthracite Grey fully-glazed composite back door on a red-brick home
Green cottage composite door with three diamond glass panels
Black traditional composite door with arched fanlight on a Victorian red-brick terrace

Fire doors in Fowey — what the specification looks like here

Fowey's residential stock — Fowey's steep, narrow streets are lined with characterful cottages. Our heritage-style composite doors respect the setting while delivering modern PAS24 security — sits under the same fire-safety duties as anywhere in the county. Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, every front door opening onto a shared escape route in Fowey (PL23) is a fire door, and its integrity is a legal duty on the landlord or freeholder.

We install FD30, FD30S and FD60 certified composite fire doorsets across Fowey — from single flat-entrance replacements in converted terraces to portfolio-wide programmes for landlords, HMO operators and block managers. Every installation carries independent third-party certification (BM TRADA Q-Mark, Certifire or IFC), is installed strictly to the manufacturer's tested method, and hands over with the manufacturer certificate, installation certificate and photographic evidence.

Fire performance and PAS24:2022 security arrive in the same doorset — 3-star anti-snap cylinder, multi-point locking and impact-tested frame as standard. The specification does not compromise on either count, and the finish is available across our full colour and style palette. Cover extends across Fowey Harbour and Readymoney Cove and the surrounding villages within the PL23 postcode area.

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Fowey's steep, narrow streets running down to the harbour are lined with genuinely old, characterful cottages, many listed, and a high proportion given over to second homes and holiday lets rather than year-round occupation. As one of the most visually protected towns in Cornwall, almost any fire door replacement here has to satisfy a conservation officer as much as Building Regulations, and access for delivery and installation is as tight as anywhere in the county.

Fowey's harbour also brings working boatyards and marine businesses into the town's commercial fire safety picture alongside its residential conversions, a mix not many Cornish towns this size carry.

Steep lanes and listed cottage frontages

Fowey's streets, several barely wide enough for a single vehicle, are lined with listed and locally-important cottages that have often been extended and reconfigured internally over centuries. A fire door replacement on one of these frontages is as much a conservation exercise as a compliance one, and we specify heritage composite doorsets that keep sightlines, panel depth and glazing patterns faithful to the original.

Holiday lets and absent owners

A large proportion of Fowey's housing stock is used as holiday accommodation or second homes, often owned by people based well outside Cornwall and managed locally by an agent. The self-closer and guest-turnover principles that apply in Padstow and St Ives apply equally here, with the added factor that arranging survey access often has to be scheduled well in advance around an owner's or agent's availability.

Marine and harbourside commercial premises

Fowey's working harbour supports boatyards, chandlers and other marine businesses that carry their own fire safety obligations under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order, distinct from but sometimes adjoining residential premises above or beside them in mixed-use harbourside buildings.

Access on Fowey's narrowest streets

Getting a doorset to some Fowey properties means carrying it down steep, stepped lanes with no vehicle access at all for the final stretch — we treat this as a standard part of planning a Fowey job rather than an unusual complication.

Local note

Covering the harbour, the town centre and out towards Polruan (via ferry) within PL23.

Ratings

FD30, FD30S and FD60 for Fowey property.

FD30

30 minutes fire integrity

Baseline rating — some single-storey and lower-risk Fowey scenarios still specify FD30 without smoke seals.

FD30S

30 minutes + smoke seals

The standard specification for flat-entrance doors in Fowey converted terraces and purpose-built blocks under current Approved Document B guidance.

FD60

60 minutes fire integrity

Specified in taller Fowey blocks, larger HMOs and where the Fire Risk Assessment identifies extended escape times.

Included

What every Fowey fire door installation includes.

Certified assembly

Slab, frame, seals, hardware — supplied and installed as one tested unit.

Third-party certification

BM TRADA Q-Mark, Certifire or IFC covering the exact envelope.

PAS24:2022 security

3-star anti-snap cylinder, multi-point locking, impact-tested.

Certified closer

Overhead or concealed Perko-style closer on escape-route doors.

Compliance pack

Manufacturer cert, installation cert, photographs — for your FRA file.

10-year guarantee

Written 10-year guarantee on the completed doorset.

Where we cover

Fire door installation across Fowey.

Every Fowey postcode covered — PL23 — plus the surrounding villages. Same certified specification, same compliance pack, same crew.

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Certified fire doorsets installed across Fowey.

Free on-site survey, fixed written quote, full compliance documentation.

Full county coverage

We cover the whole of Cornwall.

From Bude to Land's End, Padstow to the Lizard — our Cornwall-based surveyors and installers fit composite doors across every town, village and coastal parish in the county. Same standard, same 10-year guarantee, wherever you are.

  • Truro
  • Falmouth
  • Newquay
  • St Austell
  • Penzance
  • Bodmin
  • Bude
  • Launceston
  • Saltash
  • Redruth
  • Camborne
  • Helston
  • Liskeard
  • Wadebridge
Illustrated map of Cornwall showing towns we cover for composite door installation — Bude, Bodmin, Padstow, Tintagel, Newquay, St Austell, Truro, Falmouth, St Ives, Land's End and Lizard Point.