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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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Fire doors, the unsung heroes!
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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
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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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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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New avenue for Fire Door Experts – a franchised project!
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May 8, 2019
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Our News
Fire Door Experts have recently taken another exciting first step for the company by beginning installation of 28 door sets at Porton BioPharma near Salisbury as a franchised project. Above all, by working with suitably qualified and Fire Door Experts trained tradesmen, franchised projects allow FDE to extend their traditional London-only base to potentially all
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Whittington Hospital – 250+ fire doors scheduled for installation
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May 3, 2019
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Our News
Fire Door Experts are following on from December 2018’s start at Whittington Hospital and some 250+ FD30 and FD60 fire doors are in production and scheduled to be installed over the late spring/early summer. This ‘fit only’ task on behalf of UKSE Group represents another major project within the health care sector that Fire Door