Fire Door To The Garage

Here s a simple way to add a closer to the door and bring your house up to code.

Fire door to the garage.

Doors around the outside of your house swing in or out depending what type of door it is. The door shown below is an example. We check the bug on the glass and it is usually safety glass but have yet to find one with glass that is fire rated. A solid wood door not less than 1 3 8 inches thick a solid or honeycomb core steel doors not less than 1 3 8 inches thick or a 20 minute fire rated door with a self closing device.

Version a is they should open out into the garage with the panic doors on the inside and version b says they should open into the building with the panice bars on the garage side. 6 panel primed right hand inswing steel prehung front door w brickmould. Perfect for home to garage door use this 20 minute fire rated door will perfectly match to your existing interior molded doors while providing extra protection for your home. To meet fire separation requirements the door must be one of three types of doors.

Fire rated garage door. A remodeler doing a flip house changes out all the doors in the home to update the interior and replaces the old door to the garage with a hollow core interior door. Since garage doors are an exit we would install the doors to open in the path of least resistance. All of the doors mentioned above must be installed with a self closing or automatic closing device in order to comply.

While the six panel door shown below gets awfully thin at the panels this is still a 20 minute fire rated door so there s nothing wrong with it being used between the house and garage. Mmi door 20 minute fire rated prehung solid core interior doors offer you both piece of mind when purchasing and confidence after installation. The basement to garage doors are proper fire doors but there is an issue here as to which way they should open. Which of these is the proper installation.

Use a door closer if hinge replacement is not a good option or you need a little more power and control. The service door between an attached garage and a house must be self closing as a protection against fire.