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Student accommodation fire door maintenance – top of the class!
- December 8, 2020
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Industry News, Our News, Real Stories
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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 -
Competence and Accreditation set to be major features in fire safety sector
- May 15, 2020
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Industry News, Our News
"Essential industry changes needed post-Grenfell" Dame Judith Hackitt recently discussed the current industry landscape and outlined a strong belief that competence and accreditation are set to be major features in the fire safety sector (including fire door contractors) going forward. During the recent BESA webinar discussion with David Frise (CEO at the Building Engineering Services -
Fire Door Surveys
- April 6, 2020
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Advice & Tools, Industry News, Our News
As a building owner, landlord or Responsible Person, you have a statutory obligation to ensure your fire doors are compliant and fit for purpose. So, you instruct a third party accredited fire door contractor to inspect and assess your fire doors. You (should) then receive a detailed report and cost estimate. Naturally, you want to -
New Fire Safety Bill introduced
- March 30, 2020
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Industry News, Our News
The Home Office has introduced a new bill to improve fire safety in buildings Building on action already taken to ensure tragedies like the Grenfell Tower never happen again, the new Fire Safety Bill amends the Fire Safety Order 2005. This clarifies that the responsible person or duty-holder for multi-occupied, residential buildings must ensure fire -
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 -
Regular fire door checks to become law in all blocks of flats
- February 20, 2020
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Advice & Tools, Industry News, Our News
As fire door maintenance experts, we welcome the upcoming Fire Safety Bill. This is set to stipulate fire doors in all blocks of flats will need to be checked every 3 months. This proposed new law comes from phase one of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, where it has been recommended that building owners or managers -
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