Commercial door repair & fire door compliance across the GTHA
Ontario Fire Code, O. Reg. 87/25, records, responsibility, enforcement
In a leased commercial building, fire door inspection is the duty nobody does. The landlord assumes the tenant handles their own premises. The tenant assumes the landlord handles the building. Both point at the lease, and the openings go uninspected for years. The Ontario Fire Code does not care what the lease says. It places…
You can inspect every fire door in your building, fix every fault, and have nothing to show for it. If you cannot produce a record, you cannot demonstrate the work happened — and from the perspective of an inspector, undocumented compliance and no compliance look identical. This is the element building owners most consistently underestimate….
Corrected 13 October 2026. An earlier version of this article said O. Reg. 87/25 changed fire door inspection from annual to monthly. That was wrong. Monthly inspection of a door in a fire separation is long-standing and was not created by this amendment. What 87/25 did add is set out below. We have left the…