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Back-to-back fire rated door frames installed to replace non-fire rated bi-folding doors.
- January 21, 2021
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Industry News, Our News, Real Stories
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Fire Door Experts were called upon as leading fire door contractors to assist with a high end residential project last summer. The building had been handed over with non-fire rated riser doors! The door cores had been modified and cut down on site and installed on bi-folding hinges. All of this original work was completely -
Fire Door Experts deliver yet another project for Specialist Door Solutions
- January 18, 2021
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Industry News, Our News, Real Stories
Another fix-only project in conjunction with SDS. December saw the FDE team prove themselves as one of the leading fire door installation companies with our 5th project undertaken for SDS (Specialist Door Solutions) in 2020. As preferred installers for SDS, Fire Door Experts were presented to the Main Contractors for an Essex hospital refurbishment. Scope -
Graham Construction and Poole Waite & Co Ltd lead the way with antimicrobial ironmongery on Old Gramophone Works!
- January 11, 2021
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Industry News, Our News, Real Stories
Protecting future building users as part of a high end and complex office refurbishment. Fire Door Experts have secured our first major fire door contract to supply and fit anti-microbial ironmongery as part of a timber door package for 135 fire door-sets, comprising a mix of non-fire rated, FD30s and FD60s door-sets supplied by specialist -
Student accommodation fire door maintenance – top of the class!
- December 8, 2020
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Industry News, Our News, Real Stories
315 fire doors successfully maintained despite unforeseen challenges Fire Door Experts have completed fire door maintenance work on 315 bedroom, communal and riser doors on behalf of a large student accommodation chain successfully maintaining all doors back to their originally intended fire rating. Under our BM Trada Q-Mark Fire Door Maintenance accreditation, we can carry out -
Fire doors, the unsung heroes!
- August 14, 2020
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Advice & Tools, Real Stories
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 -
Building Safety Bill – draft publication gives new rights to residents and accountability for building owners
- July 31, 2020
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Industry News, Our News, Real Stories
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 -
House of Commons commendation – great to see given current challenges!
- April 14, 2020
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Industry News, Our News, Real Stories
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 -
UK’s No.1 for door installation – literally!!
- March 20, 2020
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Advice & Tools, Industry News, Our News, Real Stories
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, -
Fire Stopping? Or Fire Starting..??
- March 19, 2020
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Advice & Tools, Industry News, Our News, Real Stories
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 -
NOT your average door install!! But a normal day in the FDE office!!
- February 28, 2020
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Our News, Real Stories
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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