Maintaining your fire doors is fairly straightforward, although it’s important that you have a plan in place when it comes to checking them over. That way you can be sure your fire resistant doors will give you maximum protection at all times. We’ve put together a guide to help you with the ongoing maintenance of […]

Renovating and extending a home comes with so many small jobs and considerations, not to mention the big ones, that something like fire doors can often slip the net. However whether or not you have fire resistant doors fitted can be an important question for building regulations and, down the line, may even save your […]

Our article this week revisits the so-called “ratings” for fire resistant doors i.e. for how long will they provide resistance? Modern buildings are compartmentalised to delay the spread of fire from one area to another.  The fire doors that link these compartments have two very important functions: when closed they form a barrier to stop […]

Well, this is our 50th article in the current series, and to celebrate we thought we’d go slightly off piste again – which we do very occasionally – and instead of telling you more about fire resistant doors we thought we’d tell you some interesting facts about fire itself (without which we wouldn’t need resistant […]

In our last article we delved into some of the regulations again, and the acronyms BREEAM and CPET cropped up.  We thought that this time we’d spend a little time exploring each of them, as potentially useful background information, as well as FSC. What is BREEAM? BREEAM is the world’s foremost environmental assessment method and […]

We keep returning to this topic from time to time, and at the risk of repetition we think this is extremely important because fire resistant doors – installed by experts and maintained correctly – not only meet legal and essential regulatory options but can SAVE LIVES … so we don’t think you’ll mind too much […]