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Labels, clearances, hinges, closers, positive latching, astragals, vision lites, field modifications and egress rules. Every topic gets its own page: the drawing first, then what you need to remember. 66 illustrated pages.
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These are real pages from the book. The table of contents is the full one: 9 parts and 62 topics.
You're down on one knee at a stairwell door with a tape and a gauge, and the facility manager asks if the gaps pass. Four gaps, and you're not sure where each one is measured or from which side.
The manual covers it in paragraphs: head, edges, bottom, floor covering, exceptions, one after another in running text. You read it at night after a full shift, and by morning it's a blur.
In the book, those same four gaps are one page: the door drawn from the front, measured from the pull side, with 1/8 in ± 1/16 at the head and edges of a steel door and 3/4 in max at the bottom, and where the tape goes for each one.
The door label, hinges, positive latching, vision lites and clear width work the same way: one topic, one page, one drawing.
You see where to measure, and you measure. No digging back through the code while you're standing at the door.
The basics, labels and ratings, clearances, hinges and closers, latching and pairs, glazing and gaskets, field modifications, egress rules and documentation: 66 pages, all illustrated.
Think of it this way:
It's the annual walk-through at the hospital and you're standing at a pair of stair doors. The inactive leaf has to close first, and the inspector wants to see it happen.
You open the book to the coordinator page and see both leaves drawn from above, with the coordinator holding the active leaf until the inactive one shuts.
Same with the door label, the four gaps, the closer test from full open, the 5% sign rule and the clear width: each one on its own page.
Fire Door Inspector Illustrated is 9 parts and 62 topics, all drawn, and at the end you get the 11 steps on one page, the most frequent deficiencies and the numbers to know before the exam.
What you see drawn, you don't have to memorize.
Why a fire door is an assembly, fire vs smoke vs egress doors, ratings and walls, which NFPA edition applies, who inspects, the 11-step method and what to carry in the truck.
Where the door and frame labels are, how to read a label line by line, temperature-rise labels, painted-over or missing labels, and labels on hardware and glazing.
The four gaps, steel vs wood doors, bottom clearance by floor type, measuring to the floor covering, two worked examples in inches and what makes gaps open up.
How many hinges and what kind, self-closing vs automatic-closing, the closer test from full open, closer adjustment, spring hinges and which hold-opens are allowed.
Positive latching, latch throw and strike, locks and deadbolts, pairs with active and inactive leaf, coordinators, astragals and fire exit hardware.
Vision lites and beads, reading the glazing mark, panel size by rating, gaskets and edge seals, positive pressure, the 5% sign rule and holes in the surface.
What counts as a field modification, the job-site preparations allowed, kick plates, cutting the bottom after new flooring, listed replacement parts and repairs that need relabeling.
Clear width, swing direction, opening force, hardware height and one-motion release, doors into corridors and landings, delayed-egress and access-controlled locks.
What the inspection record shows, writing a deficiency that gets fixed, numbering every door, the 11 steps on one page, frequent deficiencies and numbers to know.
At the end of the book: The 11 steps on one page, the most frequent deficiencies at a glance and the numbers to know before the exam.
Test yourself topic by topic and see why each answer is right, so the exam questions don't catch you off guard.
See the most frequent deficiencies drawn side by side with the fix, so you spot them on the first walk-through.
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The doors just landed on your desk. You get every step drawn in the order you'll actually walk it, from the label to the latch.
You review one topic per page and finish with the numbers to know on a single page. The practice questions show you why each answer is right.
You've done doors for years. You get the code values checked against the current editions, printed and ready in the truck for when the inspector asks.
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Yes. It's not a beginner's course. It puts the whole inspection into 11 steps, always in the same order, with each code value on its own page so you can check it fast.
From the current editions of NFPA 80 and NFPA 101, plus NFPA 105 for smoke door assemblies. Heads-up for hospitals: CMS-certified facilities are still inspected to the 2012 Life Safety Code, which references the 2010 edition of NFPA 80, so some values can differ from the latest edition. Always confirm which edition your authority having jurisdiction (AHJ) has adopted.
No. It's an independent illustrated study guide. It isn't published, endorsed or approved by NFPA or by any certification program.
No. It's study and field reference material, and it doesn't come with a certificate. It doesn't replace formal training, the code itself or what your AHJ decides.
No. They're written for this book, exam-style, to test you topic by topic. They aren't official questions from any exam. What the book does cover is the content fire door inspector certifications are built on: NFPA 80, NFPA 101 and NFPA 105, inspection by inspection.
The book and the 2 bonus books come as PDFs by email.
No. It's a one-time payment.
It's a PDF you can print at home or at a print shop, and keep a copy in the truck.
You have 30 days. We refund everything if the file won't open, if the book isn't what you see on this page, if you were charged twice or if the email doesn't arrive: just email us.
No more rereading the code with nothing sticking.
The four gaps around the door: you see them drawn and you're done.
You walk into the inspection knowing where everything is.
Drawings make studying faster.
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