Maintaining Fire Doors: What You Need To Know 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…
Read more ›The Importance of Fire Doors Maintenance of Fire Doors Fire doors are engineered products that provide life and property saving functions in the event of fire. It is important that they are regularly inspected and maintained to permit them to perform at their best on the one and only occasion when they are called upon…
Read more ›Buildings are compartmented to delay the spread of fire from one area to another. The compartments are usually linked by doors to allow for passage of traffic around the building. Door sets have two important functions in a fire, when closed they form a barrier to fire spread and when open they provide a means…
Read more ›Contact us now for your free quote based on your current needs for either Fire Door Inspections, Fire Door Maintenance or Fire Door Installation. By requesting a quote from Fire Doors Rite Ltd you will have taken the first step to giving yourself peace of mind for the safety of individuals using your building and…
Read more ›Maintenance; Once Fire Doors are Installed its important that they are not forgotten. As a business owner we understand that this is easy to forget or in some cases think fire doors maintenance isn’t a big deal and therefore doesn’t need doing. This couldn’t be further from the truth. Since 2005 there is now a…
Read more ›Your responsibility for fire doors… There is often confusion about who’s responsibility the fire doors in a building actually falls too, the bottom line is that EVERYONE involved in the life of a fire door, from the fire door inspection through, to its specification and maintenance, is responsible for protecting the building and its occupants….
Read more ›Fire Doors in the Workplace… Every year there are around 650 fires in the workplace, fire presents significant risk to business, not only can it destroy valuable stock equipment and building infrastructure, it can also seriously injure or even cause death to employees or visitors. Many causes of fires in the workplace could be avoided…
Read more ›What are Fire Door Regulations? There are a number of fire door regulations which apply to both new and existing buildings across the UK and they do vary depending on whether it is a new building or an existing building. In the case of new buildings, or those which include alterations, extensions or change of…
Read more ›Fire Door Maintenance Overview When the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 came into force over in England and Wales it transferred the responsibility for Fire Safety from the fire authorities to whoever has day-to-day responsibility for the premises. The responsible person must ensure they take steps to reduce the risk from fire for those…
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