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Installing Fire Doors – Who Can You Trust?
Fire Door Knowledge & Skill Requirements Installing fire doors properly is a serious business! Fire doors should be installed by a professional and experienced installer, who has the knowledge and skills to ensure that the doors are fitted correctly. The doors...
Listed Building Fire Precaution Work
We recently worked on a famous, Grade 1 Listed building. This particular building has been used as a period location for TV and film. After site visit & estimate was accepted, various works were commissioned. One of the works was an old lobby door (see right) on...
Fire Stopping – Torquay
In a block of flats in Torquay there is a service trunking that is open up through the building to each floor with Electrical isolators & consumer units. Following a Fire Risk Assessment (FRA) it was recommended that these should be isolated / compartmentalised...
Art Deco Apartments
Early in 2018, a contract with a block of art deco stayle apartments was completed. As a consequence of the Fire Risk Assessment (FRA), the main work required was to bring the existing front doors up to current fire regulation requirements. This entailed fitting the...
Church Property – Passive Fire Protection in Gloucestershire
In 2017, we complete contract work on a Property that was owned and let by a leading Church. The property was at least 100 years old and the Fire Risk Assessment highlighted major fire safety issues. The main concern of the Church was that although the building was...
Fire Door Work in Flats and HMO’s
In this piece of work, we provided fire precaution remedies for blocks of flats and HMO's (House of Multiple Occupancy). We discovered fire precaution problems and found appropriate solutions.HMO Fire Door Issue Resolved in Exeter A young Lady purchased a small Flat...
Mid Devon Residential Care Home
New Fire doors with Escape locks A mid Devon residential care home for the Elderly, had 2 issues. First, the Fire Risk Assessment had highlighted the need for new bedroom doors to FD30(S) specification, secondly the inspection body recommended lockable...
Torbay Hotel
Pair of Fire Doors A Torbay Hotel recently refurbished had an outstanding issue flagged up by the Fire Risk Assessment. The issue revolved around a pair of doors on a half landing on the main lobby staircase. The existing doors on the landing were not...
Keep Your Staff and Clients Safe!
Maintenance Regular maintenance is required to ensure Fire Doors always operate to keep staff and clients safe, shutting and latching correctly ensuring a safe working environment. The time between inspection will depend on the usage the doors get. Abacus...
Specialist Fire Doors for School
Abacus Property Services won a contract in early 2015 to install specialist Fire Doors in a Torbay School. The Fire Risk Assessment had flagged up the issue of excessive travel distance in a long corridor. There were existing pairs of Fire Doors of the same design in...