Clearview National September 2017 - Issue 190 | Page 123

Fire Safety & Security
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ASKING THE RIGHT
QUESTIONS ABOUT
FIRE DOORS
» » WHEN IS A FIRE DOOR
not a fire door?
It’s a serious question that
many should be asking when
choosing the right fire doors,
say the experts from Masterdor,
the GRP and engineered timber
door specialists owned by
Synseal Group.
“A fire door is only a fire door
if it is installed correctly, with
fully tested, fire-rated hardware
and frames which meet British
Standards,” says Group Sales
and Marketing Director, Andy
Jones.
“We have seen an increase
in enquiries about fire door
specification following the tragic
Grenfell Tower fire in June,
as fire safety has come under
wider scrutiny. We get a lot
of questions from customers
about how to combine the
right door with appropriate
hardware and frames to ensure
that new and replacement fire
doors are meeting or exceeding
the project’s specification. Our
Masterdor experts are always
more than happy to answer
these kinds of questions and
guide customers through our
products, hardware and frame
options, and offer installation
training as required to ensure
our fire doors are fitted correctly
to perform as expected.
“A lot of our customers also
come to us with requests for fire
doors but don’t always know
whether they should be selling a
FD30 or FD60 door, or whether
they should be upgrading to
FD30s/FD60s which also have
fully tested seals for smoke
resistance. That’s why we offer a
complete range, with the choice
of either a GRP or a solid,
engineered timber product which
both come in a wide choice of
colours and styles.”
The Benchmark fire door
range includes six FD30s
44mm GRP fire doors available
in five colours, and one of
the only FD60s GRP doors
available on the market. The
Craftsman range includes many
of Masterdor’s most popular
traditional and contemporary
engineered timber styles,
available in 44mm thickness
for a FD30/FD30s fire door or
54mm thickness for a FD60/
FD60s fire door. All doors meet
BS 476: part 22 standards a