Eric90

I have a single storey office built 2021, 180m2 divided into two, sole occupation just office use, reception, wc and meeting rooms to the front, brick / block wall with fire door through to the rear open plan office with fire exit. The roof void is open no compartmentation in place, have tried to fathom out whether this requires compartmenting looking at Doc B I don't think it does, any advice would be greatly received. 😎

Many thanks Anthony, will contact a FRAEW assessor.

Hi I have a small block of flats, two storey and on the first floor are a number of "bay windows" with spandrel panels attached, I cannot find out any product information on them regarding any fire safety performance. Would this be risk assessed as low risk due to the placement and minimal coverage? Thanks in advance.

Thanks Stuart.

Hi, visited a small industrial unit office accommodation and mezzanine to the front of the building, warehouse / workshop to the rest of the unit L3 detection. There is a caravan sited in the workshop and when questioned a member of staff (as there was a mat and shoes by the door and obviously not just stored for the winter!) they replied "it is used for engineers to sleep in if they get home late after call-outs but not often". Just need to know where / what I can look to quote regarding the issues that this poses as other vehicles are stored in there along with fuel etc! 😮

Hi, visited a site, doctors surgery yesterday and it was identified on the last risk assessment that the fire doors has single chain perco and that they should be replaced with overhead door closers. They have installed the overhead door closer this but just unscrewed the retaining bracket on the old perco, leaving the door frame requiring remedial works. Would it be acceptable to reinstall the perco or would the two closing devices conflict in any way?

Hi I have a two storey office block with an electrical cupboard on the ground floor housing the mains intake and distribution board, the cupboard is not fire rated and the cables go up through the suspended ceiling and into the void above with some penetrating the concrete first floor, obviously these will require fire stopping. Can the "ceiling" to the cupboard be constructed with fire rated plasterboard and mastic the sides etc along with upgrading the existing cupboard construction?

Thanks Anthony.

Two fire doors within a two storey building were fitted a number of years ago, a recent fra found these doors had the top edge taken off exposing the core. Am I right in saying that these need replacing as works to add a hardwood strip are not permissable which is what the clients deems is an acceptable solution!

Independent living accommodation , residents bedroom doors have yale locks fitted so therefore can be locked from the inside, when queried the care provider their response was "well they haven't locked themselves in yet" (the client group are physically/mentally impaired) surely if they are required to be locked when the resident is out or on holiday then that's fine but they should be able to be opened in the event of an emergency without the fear of it being locked by a confused resident? Thanks

Thanks Mike, 👍

Thanks Anthony, wow think that would be too costly! Will recommend replacing door 🙂

I know this was posted a little while ago, wouldn't the cable penetrations into the flat require fire stopping too?

Hi Rahel, Yes thanks for that I have used your products in the past for this and was looking for something that specifically controls cold smoke? Many thanks

Hi I have a server room on the ground floor at the bottom of the stairs (two storey office) means of escape. Currently the door has a two metal grilles with nothing in between (just the hole 150mm x 150mm) no intumescent etc. Is there a cold smoke type of grille on the market? Many thanks in advance.