YK Fire Door – Your Trusted Partner for Fire Rated Door& Commercial Doors in Louisiana

🔥 Expertise You Can Trust – With Years of Louisiana-Specific Experience, We Know Local Fire Codes & Inspections

🚪 Wide Selection – Fire Rated Doors, Steel & Wood Doors, Frames, Hardware & More
📦 Fast & Reliable – In-Stock, Quick-Ship & Custom Options – Statewide Louisiana Delivery
💰 Competitive Pricing – Get a Quote Today & Save

Why Contractors & Businesses Choose YK Fire Door?
          ✅ Louisiana-Proven Compliance – Certified Solutions That Pass Inspections
✅ End-to-End Support – From Selection to Installation
✅ Trusted Since 1995 – Local Expertise, National Standards

Serving All of Louisiana – Contact Us for a Seamless Door Ordering Experience!

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                Work one-on-one with an experienced specialist in fire-rated doors, commercial metal doors, wood doors, hollow metal frames, and door hardware. Get expert guidance on selecting, customizing, and installing certified fire doors and commercial door solutions for your project.

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We provide customized fire door and commercial door solutions worldwide, delivering quality products, safety compliance, and expert support for efficient, cost-effective projects across Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Africa.

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We provide fast, reliable delivery tailored to your project requirements. Our team ensures efficient transport to your specified location worldwide, with volume pricing and flexible shipping solutions. Contact us for details.

YK Fire Door – Louisiana’s Premier Fire-Rated Building Solutions
Comprehensive Fire Protection for Every Construction Need

From solid-core fire-rated wood doors to durable steel fire doors, expansive fire-rated glass systems, and specialized fireproof building materials – YK Fire Door delivers code-compliant solutions for commercial buildings, healthcare facilities, schools, and multi-family housing across Louisiana.

Key Differentiators:
• Louisiana-specific fire code expertise
• UL-certified & ASTM-tested products
• Custom configurations for unique architectural needs

Local Commercial Door Specialists – Your Project Partners

With the largest team of certified fire door professionals in the region, we provide:
✓ Complete commercial door system audits
✓ Fire code compliance consulting
✓ Precision installation by licensed technicians
✓ Ongoing maintenance programs

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🔥 Real Compliance, Real Fire Safety: Fire Door Requirements in Louisiana

When we first started exploring commercial fire door opportunities in Louisiana, one thing became clear quickly: compliance isn’t just a matter of ticking boxes. It’s about navigating a patchwork of federal, state, and local rules—and understanding how they actually play out on the ground.

Louisiana, like most U.S. states, adopts the International Building Code (IBC) and NFPA 80 as the backbone of its fire door regulation system. But here’s the catch: enforcement can vary slightly by parish (county) and by building type. So, at YK Fire Door, we learned the hard way that even a fully certified door isn’t enough unless it aligns with local inspection expectations.

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📜 Certification Standards Louisiana Recognizes

Let’s break it down—though not too mechanically. Louisiana requires fire-rated doors to have:

• UL 10C or UL 10B fire resistance test certification
  (Most projects opt for UL 10C, especially hospitals and educational buildings.)
• NFPA 80 compliance for installation and field labeling.
  This includes clearances, self-closing mechanisms, and proper gasketing.
• Labeling by an accredited testing agency: UL, Intertek/Warnock Hersey, or FM Approved.
  Every component—door leaf, frame, hardware—needs an appropriate permanent fire label.
• Minimum fire rating based on occupancy & door location:
  • 1-hour (60 minutes) for corridors or tenant separations in commercial buildings
  • 1.5-hour for stairwells
  • 3-hour for fire barriers between mixed occupancies (e.g., factory to office)

We’ve had local AHJs (Authority Having Jurisdiction) in Baton Rouge and New Orleans scrutinize things that seemed minor—like gaps exceeding 1/8″, or missing intumescent seals behind hinges. So now we don’t take shortcuts. Ever.

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🛠️ Installation Realities: Don’t Just Deliver – Adapt

One thing we’ve found is that Louisiana’s climate isn’t forgiving. Hot, humid, storm-prone—especially along the Gulf Coast. That affects not just materials, but door behavior over time.

For our projects in Lake Charles and Lafayette, we started using galvanized steel doors with reinforced honeycomb or mineral core—not just for the fire rating but for corrosion resistance. We also offer stainless steel thresholds and hinges on request.

The key lesson? Even when a door meets UL and NFPA specs on paper, it won’t pass final inspection unless the installation is clean, adjusted, and sealed for local conditions. Fire marshals here take smoke control seriously.

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📋 YK’s Louisiana Fire Door Checklist (Based on Field Lessons)

Requirement	Louisiana Expectation
Fire Test Standard	UL 10C (preferred), UL 10B acceptable
Labeling	UL / WH / FM permanent label on door + frame
Installation Standard	NFPA 80 + field inspection at final phase
Clearance	≤1/8″ top/sides, ≤3/4″ bottom (with threshold)
Self-Closing Devices	Required for all fire doors (no exceptions)
Smoke Seals	Required in corridors, healthcare, assembly use
Gasketing	Intumescent + smoke seals as per door assembly listing

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🚪 What We Recommend as a Fire Door Manufacturer

From YK’s perspective, Louisiana isn’t just a market—it’s a proving ground. We now pre-test every product line to meet both IBC and NFPA 80 standards before shipping anything to our U.S. warehouses. More importantly, we work closely with local contractors who know how to get it right on-site—because that’s where the fire door either passes… or fails.

If you’re a builder or architect searching “Louisiana fire door requirements” or “fire door supplier Louisiana,” here’s our advice: start with compliant materials, but don’t stop there. Partner with a supplier who understands installation realities, weather durability, and local inspection quirks. We’re proud to say YK Fire Door checks all those boxes—and then some.

🏢 Project Story: YK Fire Door in the Bayou Tech Innovation Center, Houma, Louisiana

Location: Houma, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana
Project Name: Bayou Tech Innovation Center (BTIC)
Scope: Fire-rated commercial doors for a startup incubator and light industrial workshop space

When we were first approached by the Bayou Tech Innovation Center’s general contractor, it didn’t strike us as a big-ticket job. No glamorous skyline or billion-dollar budget. Just a mid-sized, two-story facility in southern Louisiana, built to house clean labs, prototype workshops, and co-working offices for local renewable energy and agri-tech startups.

But as any experienced fire door manufacturer will tell you: the size of the building doesn’t determine the complexity of the fire protection work.

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🔥 The Fire Protection Challenge

From the outset, BTIC’s building code consultant emphasized that the facility would be governed not only by the IBC 2021 and NFPA 80, but also stricter interpretations of LOUISIANA STATE UNIFORM CONSTRUCTION CODE (LSUCC) adopted post-2020. Their concern?
The site had multiple mixed-use fire zones, including:

• A laser prototyping lab requiring FD90-rated doors
• Shared offices adjacent to an HVAC utility zone, with smoke leakage control
• Open-floor coworking spaces leading directly to emergency exit corridors

In short: they needed doors that weren’t just rated, but precise, documented, and custom-adapted to each fire zone’s real behavior.

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🛠️ YK Fire Door’s Role: Manufacturer, Not Just Supplier

As the designated fire door supplier, YK Fire Door Manufacturer provided more than products. We brought design collaboration, code adaptation, and installation supervision into the project.

We supplied a total of 47 fire-rated assemblies, including:

Location	Model	Rating	Features
Lab corridors (Zone A)	YK-FD90-CORE	EI90	Double-layer mineral core, steel cladding, smoke seal gasket
Coworking main exits	YK-FD60-VISION	EI60	Clear fire glass panel, surface-mounted closer
Service utility interface	YK-FD60-SMOKELOCK	EI60	Intumescent + smoke gasket combo, self-latching strike
Workshop access (garage side)	YK-FD30-RUSTPROOF	EI30	Stainless hardware, rust-proof primer, keyed exterior access

Each door was factory-labeled (UL 10C & NFPA 252) and pre-installed with adjustable closers to account for local floor settlement issues. This part proved essential—southern Louisiana’s soil shifts slightly over time, and three of the initial installs needed on-site hinge adjustment to meet ⅛” clearance requirements.

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🚧 Inspection, Hand-Off, and Lessons Learned

Final inspection came faster than expected. And the fire marshal? Let’s just say, he didn’t cut corners.

At one point, he tested a door leaf in the lab corridor himself—opened it 5 times, checked the latching and closer tension, measured the smoke seal compression, then ran a smoke pencil test under the bottom rail. No smoke leakage. No warping. Pass.

Looking back, BTIC wasn’t a project that made the news, but it taught us what we already believed: being a fire door manufacturer isn’t about just shipping metal and frames—it’s about showing up with technical clarity, site-specific judgment, and respect for every inch of local code.