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  2. Trimming of fire doors

    in Fire Prevention

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    Hi Stanto,

    modern fire doors have very little trim allowance due to the way their core is designed with hollowed out-areas to reduce weight and cost. As a result, these standard replacement fire doors might be unsuitable. You may need to order fire doors made-to-measure, which adds costs but ensures that you are covered should there be a fire. Safelincs, for example, offers a simple online fire door configurator which allows for fire doors as well as frames to be ordered for your specific dimensions.

    Harry

  3. How do I know if my CO alarm went off because of Carbon Monoxide?

    in Carbon Monoxide Alarms

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    Hi Angie

    If there is more than one CO alarm going off at the same time, it is probably safe to assume that there was indeed carbon monoxide present and possibly at a dangerous level. You need to consider leaving the building til the source of the carbon monoxide has been identified as from your description there is a real risk to your health.

    Depending from the potential source of the CO gas you need to ring one of the numbers shown on https://www.carbonmonoxideinfo.co.uk/what-is-carbon-monoxide/ so that an engineer can check the source of the gas.

    Harry

     

  12. How do I know if my CO alarm went off because of Carbon Monoxide?

    in Carbon Monoxide Alarms

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    Hi Janie

    I have not heard of screed setting off CO alarms, however, I am aware of one chemical that can set CO alarms off. The hydrogen generated when eg car batteries are charged reacts with the sensor in the same way as carbon monoxide does.

    Please keep in mind that CO also can come from your neighbours  (if they have a vent on the outside, or from a shared roof space) and from the road if you are living next to a very busy road.

    Harry

  15. Fire alarm systems in shared business buildings

    in Fire Alarm Systems

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    Hi Garry

    This depends from whether you have 1 hr fire separation between the different tenants/owners. If not, I would keep the building-wide system in the short term, however, as the building starts to evolve & 1 hour fire separation is established between occupants, there would be a benefit to each unit having their own stand alone system.

    The result of this would be clear ownership and responsibility between the occupants in relation to fire arrangements & less headaches for you as the landlord due to false activations.

    Harry

  17. Dorgard devises

    in Fire Risk Assessments

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    Hi Lee

     

    The standard version of the Dorgard should not be used between corridors and staircases but is acceptable between rooms and corridors. The Dorgard goes into a failsafe mode if the battery is low and cannot be set again til the battery is replaced, so no risk there.

    There is now the Dorgard Pro which allows direct link to fire alarm system as well.

    Harry

  21. Battery life warranty

    in Emergency Lighting

    Posted

    Hi Simon, not sure which suppliers you are referring to. Safelincs, for example, offers free extended 5 year warranty for non-maintained emergency lights. We also do not offer battery warranty for 5 years. We see this similar to smoke alarms, where the manufacturers offer eg a ten year warranty, even though the normal alkaline batteries have to be replace every year or two.

    Harry

     

     

  22. Setting up as fire protection company

    in Fire Extinguishers

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    Hi Protect

    Safelincs would be happy to support you both with trade extinguishers but also the extinguisher servicing tools you might need. The extinguisher servicing equipment is sold by our daughter company Actfire.

    Trade prices for extinguishers are dealt with by Sarah at sarah@safelincs.co.uk

    The Ultrafire water mist extinguishers are kitemarked and suitable for various classes of fire (A, B, C and F). However, there are limitations as for everything. For industrial kitchens with deep fat fryers you still need wet chemical extinguishers and for server rooms I would still recommend CO2 extinguishers. While the water mist extinguishers have a broad application, their fire fighting capability is lower than those of powder and foam extinguishers. While this does not really matter in offices, schools, housing etc, I would still recommend powder and foams for larger industrial applications.

    Any questions, please let us know

    Harry

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