Fire damper specialists
Protecting UK buildings through certified fire damper compliance
Titan Fire Compliance surveys, tests, repairs and maintains fire dampers and passive fire protection across commercial, healthcare, education and residential buildings. We give responsible persons the evidence they need to prove compliance.
- Fully certified engineers
- BS 9999 & DW/145 aligned
- Digital reports and asset registers
- Nationwide UK coverage
Our services
Complete fire damper and passive fire protection support
From the first survey through to signed-off remedials, we deliver every stage of the fire damper lifecycle in-house. That leaves one accountable team behind your compliance evidence.
Damper Surveys
A full survey of your building to find, locate and record every fire damper, including the ones nobody knew were there.
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Servicing and PPM
Planned servicing on a cycle that suits the building, with full drop testing, a clear pass or fail on every damper and photographic evidence.
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Damper Replacement
Replacement of dampers that have failed, corroded or were never correctly installed, with certified units fitted to the manufacturer's detail.
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Damper Installation
New fire dampers installed where ductwork crosses a compartment line unprotected, along with the access panels needed to maintain them.
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Fire Stopping
Surveys and remedial fire stopping to service penetrations, so the compartment line around your ductwork is genuinely continuous.
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Tek Screw Replacement
Correcting the fixings around dampers and ductwork, including screws driven through a casing where they foul the blades.
Read moreOur method
How a Titan visit works, start to finish
Every job follows the same sequence, whether it is forty dampers in one building or four thousand across an estate. You know what happens, when it happens and what you are left holding.
- Nationwide
- Engineers mobilised across the UK
- 5 working days
- Typical report turnaround after site works
- Every asset
- Photographed, referenced and given a result
- One team
- Survey, testing and remedials in-house
- 01
Survey and asset register
We work through the building zone by zone, tracing ductwork through fire-rated construction and recording every damper against a unique reference, a location description and a photograph.
- 02
Access
Where a damper cannot be reached we identify what is needed and install correctly sized fire-rated access panels, so the asset is testable now and at every visit after this one.
- 03
Drop test and inspection
Each damper is released and observed closing under its own mechanism, then reset. Motorised units are driven closed through their actuator. Corrosion, obstruction and damage are recorded alongside the result.
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Report
You receive a plain-English summary of your position, a full asset schedule with photographs, and defects prioritised by risk rather than listed at random.
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Remedials and sign-off
We repair, replace or install whatever has failed, re-test it, and update the asset register so your records stay accurate.
About us
Compliance you can evidence, not just claim
Titan Fire Compliance was built around a straightforward idea: fire damper compliance should be simple to understand, properly evidenced and honestly priced.
Our engineers work to recognised industry standards, and every job leaves you with a clear asset register, photographic evidence and a pass or fail position on every damper we touch. Where we find defects, we tell you what it will take to put right, and we can put it right.
What is a fire damper?
A fire damper is a passive fire protection device fitted where ductwork passes through a fire-rated wall, floor or ceiling. In normal use it sits open and lets air move freely through the ventilation system. In a fire it closes, restoring the integrity of the fire compartment so that flame and smoke cannot travel through the ductwork into the next part of the building.
How do fire dampers work?
Most fire dampers are held open by a fusible link that melts at around 72°C, releasing a spring or curtain that snaps the damper shut. Motorised dampers are driven closed by an actuator wired to the fire alarm or building management system. Both types depend on moving parts that can seize, corrode or become obstructed, which is why they have to be tested rather than assumed to work.
Where we work
Trusted across regulated and high-occupancy buildings
Fire dampers exist in almost every building with mechanical ventilation. We work in the sectors where getting them wrong carries the highest consequences.
Healthcare
Hospitals, care homes and clinical settings where evacuation is slowest and scrutiny is highest.
Education
Schools, colleges and university estates, with works planned around term dates and holidays.
Commercial offices
Multi-tenant office buildings, managed estates and landlord-retained areas.
Residential and high-rise
Blocks of flats, build-to-rent and student accommodation, including higher-risk buildings.
Retail and hospitality
Shopping centres, restaurants, hotels and leisure venues, including commercial kitchens.
Industrial and logistics
Warehouses, manufacturing plants and distribution centres with large-volume ventilation.
Why it matters
Why fire dampers are essential to your building's fire strategy
Compartmentation is the backbone of almost every fire strategy in the UK. Walls and floors are built to hold a fire in one part of a building for long enough to let people out and let the fire service in. Every duct passing through those walls is a hole in that defence unless a working fire damper is protecting it.
A damper that is painted shut, obstructed by insulation, missing its fusible link or simply never tested offers no protection at all. Because dampers sit hidden above ceilings and inside risers, that failure is invisible until the day it matters.
- 72°C
- Typical fusible link release temperature
- 3 months
- Shortest service cycle we run, for kitchen and dust-laden extract
- 12 months
- The usual cycle for clean office ventilation
- 100%
- Of dampers we test are photographed and reported
Standards the work answers to
- Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
- BS 9999:2017
- BS EN 1366-2
- BESA DW/145
- Building Safety Act 2022
Before you instruct
Questions we are asked before every instruction
- How often do fire dampers need testing?
- We service on a three-monthly, six-monthly, nine-monthly or annual cycle, chosen to suit the building. Kitchen extract, workshops and other grease-laden or dusty environments seize fastest and belong on the shorter cycles; clean office ventilation is usually fine annually. BS 9999:2017 sets the floor rather than the target, recommending intervals not exceeding two years with annual testing in dust-laden atmospheres, and Article 17 of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 requires fire safety equipment to be kept in efficient working order. In practice most insurers and fire risk assessors expect annual testing at least.
- What happens if a damper fails?
- It is recorded as a failure with photographs and a description of the defect, then priced for repair or replacement. Because we carry out remedial works ourselves, failures get closed out rather than carried into next year's report.
- We have no records at all. Where do we start?
- With a survey. Most buildings we are called to have no reliable records, so the first job is establishing how many dampers exist, where they are and whether they can be reached. That register is yours to keep and reuse.
- Can you test dampers we cannot access?
- Not until access exists. We identify every asset we could not reach and why, then price the fire-rated access panels needed. Reporting inaccessible dampers honestly matters far more than a report that quietly omits them.
- Will testing disrupt the building?
- Rarely. Most of the work happens above ceilings and inside risers, and we work around occupied buildings, including evenings and weekends where daytime access is not practical.
- Do you work outside normal hours?
- Yes. Commercial kitchens, retail and healthcare often need out-of-hours attendance, and it is arranged as part of the quotation rather than charged as an extra afterwards.
Get in touch
Talk to Titan Fire Compliance
Tell us a little about your building and what you need, and we will come back to you, usually within one working day. If you would rather see a figure first, the instant estimation tool prices the job in a couple of minutes.
- No obligation and no pressure
- Itemised pricing, not a lump sum
- A named engineer and a fixed date
- Reports issued within 5 working days
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Our estimator prices surveys, servicing, replacement, installation and fire stopping, and shows every rate behind the figure.
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