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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
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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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