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Student accommodation fire door maintenance – top of the class!
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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
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BWC and Fire Door Experts combine for Gramophone Works project
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October 2, 2020
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Industry News, Our News
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Building Safety Bill – draft publication gives new rights to residents and accountability for building owners
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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
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Competence and Accreditation set to be major features in fire safety sector
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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
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House of Commons commendation – great to see given current challenges!
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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
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Fire Door Surveys
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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
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New Fire Safety Bill introduced
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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
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UK’s No.1 for door installation – literally!!
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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,
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Fire Stopping? Or Fire Starting..??
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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
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NOT your average door install!! But a normal day in the FDE office!!
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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