FD30 fire doors
FD30 means the door has been tested to resist fire for 30 minutes. The rating belongs to a complete assembly, not to the leaf alone: the frame, the intumescent seals, the hinges, the latch and any closer were tested together. Fit a certified leaf into an uncertified frame and the 30 minutes no longer means anything.
- In this range
- 13 doors
- Guide price from
- £117.60 inc VAT
Fire doors are the one product on this site where getting it slightly wrong has a consequence that is not about looks or money. They are also the product most often bought as a leaf on its own and fitted with whatever hinges were in the van.
The rating is not a property of the door you are looking at. It is a property of the whole doorset, installed correctly.
13 doors
Prices are guide prices including VAT, taken from the smallest size and plainest finish of each door. They are not an offer to sell — confirm the price for your size and finish before ordering.
FD30 White Flush Fire Door
The plainest 30-minute fire door there is: a flat primed face over a fire-resisting core, 44mm thick, for a garage door or a loft conversion where nothing has to match.
- Primed MDF
- 44mm
- FD30
Guide price from6 sizes£117.60inc VATFD30 White Shaker Fire Door
A rated door that does not announce itself: square-edged shaker panels on a fire core, so the fire door on the landing matches the painted shaker doors either side of it.
- Primed MDF
- 44mm
- FD30
Guide price from4 sizes£136.80inc VATFD30 White 4-Panel Fire Door
A moulded four-panel face on a 30-minute fire core, for a period house where building control has asked for a rated door on a landing full of painted panel doors.
- Primed MDF
- 44mm
- FD30
Guide price from4 sizes£142.80inc VATFD30 White Vision Panel Fire Door
A 30-minute fire door with a single tall vision panel, so you can see whether anyone is coming the other way before you push it open.
- Primed MDF
- 44mm
- FD30
Guide price from4 sizes£158.40inc VATFD30 White Ladder Fire Door
A 30-minute fire door in the contemporary horizontal-panel shape, primed — the fire door for a modern house rather than a period one.
- Primed MDF
- 44mm
- FD30
Guide price from4 sizes£158.40inc VATFD30 White 6-Panel Fire Door
In a period house, a flush fire door on the hall is often the only modern thing in it. This is the 30-minute door in the Victorian six-panel outline, primed.
- Primed MDF
- 44mm
- FD30
Guide price from4 sizes£165.60inc VATFD30 Oak Fire Door
A 30-minute fire door in oak, 44mm thick. Required on doors between a garage and the house, and on habitable rooms off a stairwell in most three-storey homes.
- Engineered oak
- 44mm
- FD30
Guide price from4 sizes£174inc VATFD30 Oak Shaker Fire Door
When a loft conversion drops a rating requirement onto a landing that already has oak shaker doors, this is the door that matches them. Oak shaker panels on a fire-resisting core.
- Engineered oak
- 44mm
- FD30
Guide price from4 sizes£194.40inc VATFD30 Oak 4-Panel Fire Door
The four-panel oak shape carrying a 30-minute rating, for period houses where the rated door has to sit among original panel doors without being the thing everyone looks at.
- Engineered oak
- 44mm
- FD30
Guide price from4 sizes£201.60inc VATFD30 Oak Ladder Fire Door
The ladder shape in oak on a 30-minute core — for a contemporary house where the fire door has to match a run of oak ladder doors rather than stand apart from them.
- Engineered oak
- 44mm
- FD30
Guide price from4 sizes£218.40inc VATFD30 Oak Vision Panel Fire Door
On a landing or a stairwell, a white fire door is the only thing anyone looks at. Same single vision panel, behind an oak face.
- Engineered oak
- 44mm
- FD30
Guide price from4 sizes£220.80inc VATFD30 Oak 6-Panel Fire Door
For a hallway where the other doors are oak and a flush leaf would announce itself. The six-panel shape, on a 30-minute core.
- Engineered oak
- 44mm
- FD30
Guide price from4 sizes£223.20inc VATFD30 Walnut Flush Fire Door
A 30-minute fire door faced in walnut — the rated door for a house whose other doors are walnut, where an oak or a white one would be obvious.
- Engineered walnut
- 44mm
- FD30
Guide price from4 sizes£256.80inc VAT
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What FD30 actually means
FD stands for fire door and the number is the minutes of fire resistance demonstrated under test — 30 for FD30, 60 for FD60. The performance being measured is integrity: how long the assembly holds back flame and hot gases. Leaves are typically 44mm thick for FD30 and 54mm for FD60, because the resistance comes from the density of the core.
The door is one part of a tested assembly
Every one of these was in the test, and every one of them has to be right on site:
- The leaf itself, uncut beyond its stated allowance.
- The frame or lining, of the correct material and section, correctly fixed and packed.
- Intumescent seals in the leaf or the frame, which expand in heat and close the gap.
- Hinges of the correct grade and number — fire doors normally take three, not two.
- The latch or lock, and its intumescent protection.
- A closer, where the door has to be self-closing.
- Any glazing, with the beads and glazing system it was tested with.
- The gaps around the leaf, which are specified rather than left to judgement.
FD30 or FD30S?
The S suffix means the assembly also restricts the passage of cold smoke, achieved with brush or fin smoke seals in addition to the intumescent. Smoke kills before fire does, so smoke sealing is required in a number of situations where a plain FD30 is not enough.
Which one your building needs is a regulatory judgement about the specific situation, not something to infer from a product page. [NEEDS HUMAN SIGN-OFF] — confirm the requirement with your building control body or a competent fire door installer before ordering.
Where fire doors are generally required in a home
In England the requirement comes from Approved Document B. The situations that come up most often in ordinary houses are the door between an integral garage and the house, doors between a stairway and habitable rooms in a three-storey home, and doors within flats and onto common areas. Loft conversions bring most houses into the three-storey category, which is why fire doors so often appear on a job that started as a bedroom in the roof.
[VERIFY: Approved Document B, current edition] and note that Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own technical standards. This is a summary to orient you, not a specification for your building — check with building control.