Be compliant. Be prepared.

Your first responsibility is to protect those in your care from harm. This means keeping your building's fire and smoke dampers in excellent working condition.

McElroy's damper inspection is comprehensive, and always includes a detailed report. With your permission, our certified technicians will perform any necessary repairs at the time of inspection. This can help lower costs, and help you gain compliance as quickly as possible.

The McElroy's Fire, Smoke and Combination Damper Inspection includes:

1. Unobstructed access to the damper will be verified and deficiencies reported to the owner.
2. If the damper has a fusible link, the link will be removed for testing to ensure full closure and lock-in-place if so equipped. The fusible link will be reinstalled after the completion of testing.
3. The operation test of the damper needs to verify that there is no damper interference due to rusted, bent, misaligned or damaged frame or blades, or defective hinges or parts.
4. The damper frame must not be penetrated by any foreign objects that would affect fire damper operations.
5. The damper must not be blocked from closure in any way.
6. Lubricate all moving parts of the damper.
7. Manually activate electric smoke dampers to ensure that the actuator is operable and to verify full closure of the smoke damper.
8. All inspections and testing will be documented indicating the location of the damper, date of inspection, name of inspector and deficiencies discovered.
9. The documentation will have space to indicate when and how the deficiencies were corrected.
10. Inspections will be performed by a NEMI Certified HVAC Fire Life Safety Technician.
11. All documentation needs to be maintained and made available for review by the AHJ.

The National Fire Protection Association, International Code Council, The Joint Commission, State Fire Marshals and others require periodic inspection of passive fire systems. Choose McElroy's.

Additional resources:
Order your NFPA 101® Life Safety Code manual

NFPA 101® Life Safety Code NFPA Life Safety Code products and information

NFPA Fire Protection Handbook

NFPA Fire and Life Safety Videos