Fd20 Fire Door

Fire door frames and linings are essential to a complete fire door system as if the frame gives way quickly to fire then the fire can escape around the door rendering the bulk of the door itself useless.

Fd20 fire door.

This type of house has to have it s staircase protected by fd20 fire doors to aid safe escape from the top floor should a fire occur. The minimum rating of a fire door is now predominantly fd30 with intumescent seals being necessary to achieve this rating. Installing an internal fire door helps you prevent the spread of fire throughout your building and helps you have time to vacate safely. These fire door frames are as a discrete as the doors themselves offering a good looking and typical door lining.

The performance of fd30 fd60 fd90 fd120 fire doors is assessed by stress testing them in conditions specified in british standards 476 part 22 1987. It used to be possible to specify fire doors offering a dual classification of twenty or thirty minutes. Fire doors are installed in a building to save lives and property in the event of a fire. I often get calls from people with fire door related questions and this call was from a new home owner with concerns about the standard of fire door installation at the three storey house he d just bought.

All of our fire doors are designed and custom made to your exact specifications and are manufactured to both uk european standards for fire resisting door assemblies. All of our firedoors are rated to fd30 offering 30 minutes fire resistance. An extensive range of fire doors available in various finshes to match your home or business. A door rated as fd20 would be accepted as fd30 if fitted with intumescent seals.

About fd20 and fd30 fire doors spot the difference. When fitted correctly this type of fireproof equipment provide vital protection to anyone inside a building giving time to either get to safety or to be rescued. These are designated fire resistance periods. In the past timber fire doors were available which when tested by the appropriate fire test method had met these fire resistant periods.

To achieve an fd20 rating without intumescent seals however required extremely careful fitting of door leaf within their frames. However certifiers of fire doors such as bwf and bm trada have over time ceased to certify fire doors to a fd20 stan dard. They are a specified part of a building s passive fire protection system. Other fire resistant periods exist but this note only considers these two classifications.