Fire door records for property managers and owners

Where door problems hide in managed buildings

• Stairwell doors propped open by tenants, movers and vendors, or closers unhooked to make them easier to use.
• Corridor doors to trash rooms, storage and mechanical rooms that stopped latching years ago.
• Hardware added over time: new locks, access control and signs screwed into fire doors without checking what the door allows.
• Damage from move-ins and turnovers that gets patched, not fixed.

None of it looks like a problem day to day. It usually shows up when someone else walks the building. See the fire door problems we find most often.

When a door record helps most

• Insurance renewal or a loss control visit, when a carrier asks about your doors or leaves a recommendation you need to close out.
• A sale or refinance, when due diligence walks the building and every open item becomes a negotiation.
• Taking over management of a building, so you know what you inherited before it becomes your problem.
• Turnovers and build-outs, when doors get swapped, re-keyed or damaged.
• Fire marshal visits, when you'd rather already have the list than get handed one.

Rules that apply

Minnesota's State Fire Code removes the set inspection schedule for most swinging fire doors, but it keeps the duty to keep them working. Our Minnesota fire door requirements page explains it, with sources. If you have staff in the building, OSHA's exit route rules also require exit doors to open from the inside without keys or special knowledge, and fire doors to be kept in proper working order.

Portfolios and recurring visits

Manage more than one building? We'll quote the portfolio as one job and give you a report for each building in the same format, so it's easy to compare sites and plan repairs across them. After the first assessment, an annual renewal keeps the record current at a returning-client rate.

What we do (and what we don't)

Check My Egress works with property managers and owners across the Twin Cities. We walk every egress door in your building (fire-rated or not) and score each one Pass, At Risk, or Fail. You get photos, the code reference behind each finding, a prioritized Corrective Action Plan with installed-cost estimates (materials plus labor), and a Door Schedule listing every door and its hardware as found. We don't sell hardware or do repairs, so we have nothing to gain from finding problems.

Our assessment is an independent, documented opinion. It is not a certification, not proof of compliance, and not an inspection by the Authority Having Jurisdiction or a CMS surveyor, who always have the final say.