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The importance of accurate fire door surveys!
- December 23, 2019
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Advice & Tools, Industry News, Our News
No CommentsFire Door Surveys vs Fire Risk Assessments SPA Limited have recently engaged Fire Door Experts for our expertise as fire door contractors. We have recently carried out a number of fire door surveys across London looking at both the fire door assemblies and the fire compartmentation of the buildings in question - and highlighted some -
5 Step Fire Door Check
- October 4, 2019
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Industry News, Our News
Quick and simple fire door checks Here is a very useful and simple 5 step fire door check guide on whether your fire doors are compliant, or indeed whether they are fire doors… Essential information in any fire door maintenance programme! We want to emphasise the presence of intumescent seals around the door leaf or -
Fire Doors In Blocks Of Flats
- September 30, 2019
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Industry News, Our News
10 Top Tips 1 What do fire doors do? Fire doors create a barrier from fire and toxic cold smoke and prevent it from travelling around a building, keeping the damage to a small area, allowing for evacuation, stay put and safe access for emergency services. 2 What makes a fire door work? All these -
Euston HS2 – the project that keeps on giving
- August 21, 2019
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Industry News, Our News
BWC & Fire Door Experts team still onsite 10 months later. Back in October 2018, we were contracted to supply and install 2 Assa Abloy Steel doors for a riser wall. Our technicians obviously demonstrated their expertise as fire door fitters and attention to detail as they we were quickly engaged to carry out further works. 10
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“A perfect bonfire” – LBC Investigation
- June 18, 2019
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Industry News
LBC Investigation Finds Safety Shortfalls In Barking Estate After Fire Destroyed 20 Homes Following a recent fire, LBC's Rachael Venables took chartered surveyor and fire safety expert Arnold Tarling to inspect the fire safety measures in one of the neighbouring blocks. Mr Tarling described exterior wooden cladding as "the perfect bonfire". "There are vertical timbers, -
BM Trada Q-Mark Audits successfully passed
- June 11, 2019
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Industry News, Our News
Fire Door Experts are BM Trada certified! We are very pleased to have successfully passed our BM Trada Q-Mark Fire Door Maintenance and Fire Door Installation audits for another year. The BM Trada Q-Mark allows FDE to continue to survey, supply and install and maintain fire doors as an approved 3rd party accredited contractor. BM -
Fire Door Specification & Installation
- October 27, 2017
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Industry News
Specification & Installation Fire Door specification and correct installation are so important to the performance of a fire door. BWF-Certifire fire door and doorset scheme has produced a new hard-hitting short film. It features a real live fire door test, a simple 5 Step Check and a 3D animation - 8 minutes and 9 seconds that -
Remembering Sophie Rosser
- August 18, 2017
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Industry News
Sophie was returning home after a night out in August 2012 when she witnessed her building on fire. She rushed inside to alert her fiancé who was in their apartment. She collapsed due to the smoke and later died in hospital. The Coroner told the inquest that Sophie’s death could have been avoided if a