How Do I Know My Fire Doors Are Installed Correctly?
Open the door, look at the inside of the door, the surface that touches the wall when the door is closed. Near the hinge, you should find a label and a little round yellow or blue plug with a tree shape metal insert. The metal tree will have an embossed three character number on it. […]
What is Fire Stopping?
What is “Fire Stopping” doors? Fire stopping is the sealing of any openings in order to prevent smoke, heat and fire from spreading through buildings. If the architrave around a door is removed there must be no gap and we guarantee that the gap around the door is packed with fireproof material. The materials chosen […]
Fire Doors for Schools
It was our very great privilege to install a series of fire doors at a school for severely disabled children which was named after the world famous scientist Professor Stephen Hawking. The Stephen Hawking School in Tower Hamlets, London, required extra wide fire doors to be installed to allow for specialist equipment to pass along […]
Fire door law changes
New Government rules on fire safety in buildings have been issued and RP Carpentry is proud to follow them in every installation.
Major fire door installation project
As everyone knows, the BBC is a vast organisation and it will come as no surprise to anyone that when their offices underwent a recent overhaul that dozens of modern fire doors needed to be installed. We were delighted to win the bid to supply and fit the fire doors across different parts of the […]
