Fire Protection Door Frame

Specify and buy a fire door frame to match your fire door.
Fire protection door frame. Fire rated doors provide around the clock protection to help ensure people can safely evacuate a building in the event of a fire. Fire door materials and parts fire doors can consist of a combination of materials. Basf fire protection panels achieve new fire door and frame listings by quality auditing institute wyandotte mi september 27 2016 basf s palusol sw sandwich panels now meet fire door listings requirements issued by the quality auditing institute ltd. Fire door frames provided with steel stud or wood stud anchors can be used in conjunction with fire doors rated up to 1 1 2 hours when installed in steel stud and wood stud walls steel stud cavity walls steel stud shaft walls and wood stud cavity walls protected with gypsum board having fire resistance ratings not less than the rating of the.
This standard regulates the installation and maintenance of assemblies and devices used to protect openings in walls floors and ceilings against the spread of fire and smoke within into or out of buildings. The practice of knocking up a door frame on site or in a workshop hanging a door and believing that the result constituted a valid fire door installation was never correct. All you need to know is the size of your fire door that is going to be fitted in the frame. Both the slab and the door frame must meet requirements.
A 1 1 see annex k for general information about fire doors. Nowadays it is easy to purchase certificated fire door frames and these will carry a label to identify the applicable fire rating. Design of tgp s fireframes aluminum series and clear pilkington pyrostop helped us achieve the transparency and fire protection we were looking for. Gypsum steel timber vermiculite aluminum and glass.
Qai an independent third party testing and inspection organization. Our fire door frame configurator allows you to order the correct size and finish of your fire door frame in either fd30 or fd60 versions. Fire rated doors and frames. A fire door leaf fitted in an unsuitable door frame is not a fire door as an existing door frame may not have been intended or designed to provide any fire separation performance at all.
When they re not called upon to limit the spread of fire and provide safe egress they serve as a regular door pathway making good visibility crucial. Fire rated gray right hand flush steel prehung commercial door with welded frame deadlock and hardware. Fire rated doors help reduce the spread of fire and smoke in a home or building. Both commercial and residential structures can use fire rated doors.
Door frames should be purchased from the door manufacture or from a company licensed to manufacture them or via a bwf approved fire door centre.