Fire Door Ironmongery Kits
It is extremely important that you ensure that all fire door ironmongery is compliant, and fire rated when being installed on a fire door. The fire door ironmongery kits in this section of the website are designed as an all-in-one solution for interior fire door ironmongery specification.
Whether you run a commercial or a domestic property, you will no doubt have a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties that you will need to comply with to ensure that you are providing complete safety for all its users, including fire drills in commercial properties. This list will have been extended following the tragic events of the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, where, following a chain of preventable circumstances, 72 people lost their lives, changing the fire safety landscape forever.
Fire Door Hardware Kits
At Door Controls Direct we understand the weight of responsibility for installing and maintaining fire door closers and locks for fire doors and the importance of getting it right the first time. This is where our ironmongery kits for fire doors can help by taking the confusion out of it. We also have other blogs that focus on fire door ironmongery, an 8 step guide that supports our dedication to Fire Door Safety Week, which happens each autumn.
All products within the kits are available individually but we’ve put the fire door ironmongery kits together to make specification easier for contractors and to give you a helping hand for choosing ironmongery for your door. That way, you’ll have great confidence in the products that you are putting on your door, since we have already ensured that they meet full compliance with their ratings and application and that safety for building occupants is not compromised.
Whether your project requires a basic specification or a high specification or even anti-microbial ironmongery specification, we offer a range of kits to suit all projects. Our kits have also been designed to accommodate different door locations such as office doors, classroom doors, bathrooms, and corridors.
Fire Door Ironmongery needs to be suitable for the appropriate fire rating of the door. This can differ from 30 minutes, 60 minutes, 120minutes and more but the most common is FD30 or FD60 for 30 or 60 minutes. The fire rating of a timber door and a steel door can also differ.
Door Hardware for Fire Doors
All kits contain everything that you will require for your fire doors, including fire rated door closers, fire rated hinges (including intumescent hinge pads for full compliance), fire rated locks and latches and appropriate fire door signage. We’ve made the kits so simple, that the only thing that you will need to add to them are your intumescent fire or fire and smoke seals around the door itself.
Whether you have a single entrance door into a flat or a large commercial building, our staff are on hand to share their knowledge and offer solutions which keep people safe and secure. You can contact our GAI trained team of ironmongery experts who can produce a detailed, door by door specification that will provide products that meet all current regulations for fire doors.
Our sales and specification teams have been educated in door hardware, with rigorous training through the GAI, the only trade body that represents the whole ironmongery industry, plus years of hands on experience in the trade. This means that you can buy from us with the confidence, that the products we specify will meet all of the latest standards and regulations to keep your properties and the people that use them safe and secure.
