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  • Fire doors, the unsung heroes!

    • August 14, 2020
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    Fire doors, the unsung heroes
    Watch how quickly fire can engulf a room!   47 seconds... That's how long it took to completely fill a typical room in a typical house with thick black smoke! Granted, we don't all have dry pine trees sat in the corner of the room most of the year, but watch again and see how
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  • Building Safety Bill – draft publication gives new rights to residents and accountability for building owners

    • July 31, 2020
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    Draft Building Safety Bill
    Draft Building Safety Bill published Residents in high rise buildings are set to be given new rights. The new Building Safety Bill will allow residents access to safety information in relation to the building they live in and, more importantly, gives them the power to challenge the building owner if they are not acting in
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  • House of Commons commendation – great to see given current challenges!

    • April 14, 2020
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    Letter of commendation for essential fire door maintenance works
    During these testing times, whilst our fire door technicians are strictly adhering to Covid-19 Standard Operating Procedures, we are carrying out essential fire door maintenance works for a London borough on behalf of Wates Living Space. The London borough have just received a fantastic letter of commendation from The House of Commons highlighting how well
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  • UK’s No.1 for door installation – literally!!

    • March 20, 2020
    • Posted by: fireexperts
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    UK's No.1 for Door Installation - Literally!!
    BM Trada Q-Mark Certificate 001 - we really were 1st! Whilst recently rearranging the office, we realised what we had in our possession - the very first BM Trada Q-Mark certificate for door installation! As well as being No. 001, we're also very proud to be BM Trada Q-Mark certified. Here at Fire Door Experts,
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  • Fire Stopping? Or Fire Starting..??

    • March 19, 2020
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    Fire Stopping? Or Fire Starting..?
    This is what our site team have found behind a frame of an existing fire door in a live hospital ward.  The wall has been loosely filled with timber off-cuts and newspaper! Fire stopping correctly between the back of door frames and the wall sub-structure (behind the architraves) is a critical part of a fire
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  • NOT your average door install!! But a normal day in the FDE office!!

    • February 28, 2020
    • Posted by: fireexperts
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    High Spec Bronze Doors - Banhams
    High spec bespoke installation? Not a problem for Fire Door Experts!! It's not every day we get asked to install such high spec doors as these - but it's just another day fior our team! Banham Security approached FDE to install these extremely high spec, bronze doors. As with Banham's security and locks business, they
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  • National Statistics from Fire Door Safety Week

    • July 29, 2017
    • Posted by: fireexperts
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    Fire Door Maintenance
    In 2016, research from Fire Door Safety Week revealed that commercial buildings are the most likely of buildings to break fire door safety regulations and therefore putting occupiers at risk. Further details reported that over the past few years, 93% of tradespeople working on site witnessed fire doors being propped open illegally in a commercial
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