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September 26, 2017

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A rogue’s gallery of fire doors unworthy of the name (and perfectly good ones rendered useless)

Some fire doors pictured below are so incompetently installed an otherwise serious topic descends into absurd comedy.

Unfortunately, having a stair-rail passing through a hole carved into the door (I kid you not) would have grave consequences were a fire to break out.

Lifted from Twitter (big thanks to Theodore Firedoor and FireDoorGuy) and Fire Door Safety Week’s toolkit) the gallery features plenty of more prosaic, typical problems too – big gaps between doors and around the perimeter, slapdash use of sealant, doors wedged open and the like.

There are also a couple of correctly installed fire doors at the bottom, standing proudly unbowed and un-breached after a fire ripped through the creative block  of a Dorset school in 2015.

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This one below discovered by Arnold Tarling, associate director at Hindwoods Chartered Surveyors, who said: “Southampton university Mayflower halls of residence. This fire door is the access route to the dry riser behind the open door!

“The building is only 3 years old. The architect had clearly got things wrong in the design and should also have installed magnetic releases. Clearly forgot the volume of belongings every student brings with them.

“Not too worried about the wedging as this was for students returning to uni – there were staff and student helpers to remove the wedges should the need arise.”

 

 

 

The winning fire door - hardly worthy of the name with a chunk missing

Dodgy Fire Door of the Year 2014

 

 

 

 

 

The hospital entry: a strong entry in a field of ineffectual fire doors

This hospital fire door bagged the bronze medal

 

 

 

 

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And this is what happens if you get it right! (Fire doors still not breached after a fire ripped through the creative block a Dorset school in 2015.)

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Ian Malone
Ian Malone
October 7, 2017 8:11 am

While discussing Fire doors my fear is experts and designers fail to understand why fire equipment , such as the riser shown in the first picture , are ” RED ” .
For me such a visual aid is not complicated , it should be seen not hidden behind a door , until we get the simple stuff right there will be no solution .

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