⚡️ Electrical & Passive Fire Safety Specialists 🔥
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A fire exit chained shut for the Halloween party. 🎃
From the corridor it looks secure. From the other side, it's a dead end.
That's the kind of fault we see on walk-rounds: a locked escape route, a closer that doesn't latch, and no record of who holds the key. 🔍
If you can't say who holds the keys to your fire exits, that's the first job. We check, fix and log it.
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Light under a fire door is a gap smoke can use. 👻
A painted seal, a closer that won't pull the door shut or a gap at the floor all let smoke through.
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A refit makes the walls look new. The fire stopping behind them might not be. 🧱
A survey finds the gaps, a fix closes them, and the record goes with the job.
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How often do fire doors need inspecting? No fixed legal interval for most commercial buildings. The fire risk assessment sets it, six months is the common benchmark, and busy routes go quarterly or monthly. Write down the reasoning.
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Fire door defects you can see from the corridor 🎃
1. Light round the edges
2. A wedge holding it open
3. A closer that stops short
4. Seals painted over
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Good shout. The ceiling void is where a lot of it unravels - fire walls stopping short, and ductwork and diffuser connections punching through without the right treatment.
🔧 Torn or painted-over seals are among the most frequent fire door findings. A strip that's damaged can't do its job when the heat arrives.
👻 Decorations are fine on the wall beside a door. Keep them off the leaf, the seals and the closer arm, and replace any seal that's been pulled.
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👻 A fire door wedged open for the Halloween party is still a wedged fire door. If it can't close, it can't hold smoke back.
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Fire door marked "replace"? Look at where the fault is.
Closer, hinges, seals, gaps: repair like for like.
Core, warped leaf, no test evidence: replace.
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🧱 A fire wall that stops at the ceiling tile looks complete from the corridor. Lift one tile this week and see whether it runs up to the slab. 🕸️
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🎃 Oil running down the side of a door closer is easy to spot:
1. Oil on the body or the floor
2. An arm hanging loose
3. A door stopping short of the latch
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🎃 The office Halloween party was set up on Thursday afternoon.
By Friday morning the fire door to the stairwell had paper bats taped across the glass, a ghost sheet on the handle and a chair holding it open.
📋 If a door has to stay open for an event, a hold-open device that releases when the alarm sounds is how it's done properly.
A chair or a wedge never is.
🤝 We put right fire doors across whole estates and leave a record against each one.
Happy Halloween. 🎃
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