Question: A fire services provider wants to replace both doors in a set, but only one is untagged. Do perfectly good doors really need to be replaced?
Our building was built in 1993. We have two fire door sets covering an electrical riser cupboard. Both doors are fire doors, and there is no closer or hardware apart from a lock.
The right-hand door and the frame are both tagged, identifying the installation as a “doorset.” The left-hand door is not tagged. The owners corporation maintains that the right-hand door tag applies to both doors as a set.
Our new fire services provider wants to remove both doors and replace them with a new door, keeping the old frame. The replacement is very expensive, and replacing otherwise perfectly good doors seems unnecessary. Can you advise on the best solution here?
Answer: The standard requires tagging on both leaves of a fire door set, but one tag may simply be missing.
AS1905.1-1990, under Clause 6.1.2.3, makes no specific mention of how tags are to be applied to two-leafed doorsets. One would assume both leaves, but the standard doesn’t specify.
However, AS1905.1-1997, under Clause 6.1.3, specifically mentions two-leafed doorsets and states that both leaves must be tagged.
Perhaps it was common to tag only one leaf before 1997. Or perhaps one tag has gone missing.
Either way, start by contacting the original certifier listed on the remaining tags (if possible) and asking them to assess the door leaf and replace the missing tag.
This post appears in the July 2026 edition of The NSW Strata Magazine.
Chris Chatham
LINKfire
E: Chris.Chatham@linkfire.com.au
P: 1300 669 439
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