In February 2012 www.firesealstore.com will be launching a new product line. Fire Rated Door Edge Protection is designed to maximise the lifespan of your existing fire doors. It will be available in 30 & 60 minute fire ratings and in a variety of colours to match your decor. We’ll keep you posted for further developments.
Weather Seals
The British winter has finally hit us with strong windows and lot’s of rain and it’s the time that many people discover that the need for weather seals are a must! Do not worry, Fire Seal Store has a brilliant range of weather seals to choose from to ensure your property is fully protected against the elements.
We have a superb choice of weather seals which are available in a range of different colours ensuring that they effortlessly blend into your window frames. Our seals are available in white, brown and black.
Fire seal store recommends that you use our compression weather seals to ensure that you are completely protected from the weather. Our compression weather seals help keep the wet and wind out, whilst keeping the heat from your home escaping. Our weather seals are extremely easy to install, they use a strong self adhesive backing which ensures a long lasting, secure installation. Our weather seals are extremely versatile can can cover gaps of up to 24mm.
Another product in our weather seal range includes our Draught Excluder Tape this tape is perfect to quickly and effectively seal drafts from around windows and glazing panels. This perfectly compliments our door draught excluders which are perfect for sealing small gaps under doors which results in a drafts coming through and heat loss.
If you would like any further information about any of our weather seals please do not hesitate to get in touch with us on 0113 2778577 and discuss you requirements with one of our seal specialists.
Why Use Fire Pipe Collars?
There are many different reasons to use Fire Pipe Collars, this blog post is aimed at helping you to understand the importance of installing fire pipe collars. Ensuring that your building or property is fully protected in case a fire breaks out.
Reinstate Fire Resistance
Fire Pipe Collars are designed to help reinstate the fire resistance of a floor or wall which might have been penetrated to allow various utility services to the property, such as gas, or water. A Fire Pipe Collar can be fitted to a wall or ceiling to ensure that they help to retain the fire protection properties of a wall or floor, alternatively these collars can also be set into a fire wall. Fire Pipe collars can be used on Concrete, Masonry and also Plasterboard, making them extremely versatile.
Containing A Fire
Fire pipe collars come in a range of different fire ratings including 1 and four hour ratings. This means that the collar can resit fire of up to 2 or 4 hours depending on the fire pipe collar you choose. A fire rated pipe collar can help contain a fire and prevent it from spreading quickly between rooms of a building. A PVC pipe can begin to melt at just 115°C which means a small opening can quickly appear allowing the fire to spread. A Fire Pipe Collar can prevent this.
Cheap and Easy
The beauty of a fire pipe collar is that they do not cost a lot of money, but do offer fantastic protection against fire. It’s a small price to pay to help prevent fire from spreading between rooms and potentially costing you thousands in damages to equipment of property. Fire Seal Store offers high quality fire pipe collars starting at only £3.70 + VAT. Finally Fire Pipe Collars are extremely easy to install, they only use a few screws and feature a tab closing device ensuring a quick and easy fix.
If you like any further information about our fire pipe collars please do not hesitate to contact us on 0113 2778577
Door Finger Guards
Door Finger Guards are extremely important in public buildings such as schools, bus stations and museums. Childrens trapped fingers account for a large portion of accidents in public buildings and can result in lawsuits or claims. It is extremely important that you install a suitable door finger guard to ensure that your business is completely safe from accidents. Fire Seal Store supplies a large choice of door finger guards which can help protect the safety of children and businesses.
Fire Seal Stores extensive range of door finger guards can help prevent fingers becoming trapped in the surrounding door frames and hinges, ideal for those busier buildings that children might attend. Installing a finger guard on your businesses doors will greatly reduce the risk of injury and broken fingers. Our door finger guards are also useful for around the home to help prevent home injuries.
Our bestselling door finger guard is the Kindagard Door Hinge Safety System, its perfecting for protecting fingers from becoming trapped in doors. Ideal for use in domestic and commercial buildings this finger guard fits easily to most doors in the matter of minutes without the need for specialist tools. It is available in white and brown and comes in a pre-cut length of 1.95m – suitable for most doors. In addition to protecting fingers, it also has sound reducing properties.
All of our door finger guards are available to be delivered the very next and most available with a manufacturers warranty. If you would like any further information or advice about any of our finger guards, please do not hesitate to contact our technical team on 0113 277 8577 or feel free to email us.
Fire Grille
Fire Seal Store has a range of Fire Grille’s available to order online for next day delivery.
Fire Grille’s are extremely important when protecting a building again fire. Many regular air grille’s allow ventilation however, in a fire situation they often fail to provide sufficient protection. If a fire resistant wall has a regular air grille installed it can significantly affect the resistance against fire the wall may have, therefore a sufficient fire grille is necessary.
Once a fire grille reaches a certain temperature in a fire situation, the grille slats will swell to many times their thickness and fuse together to create a barrier to prevent hot gases and smoke flowing through a building. In a normal situation a fire grille will allow regular air to flow through a building. Our choice of fire grilles are tested to 30-60 minute fire resistances meaning they can prevent gases and smoke flowing for up to 30-60 minutes depending on the fire grille that you choose. This will ensure that your fire wall is full protected against fire, in addition to fire grilles, if you have service pipes which have penetrated your fire wall our fire pipe collars are perfect for ensuring full protection.
Our choice of fire grilles are available in a number of different sizes ranging from 150mm x 150mm x 40mm (which offers ventilation of up to 153cmsq) to 300mm x 300mm x 40mm (which offers ventilation of up to 614cmsq).
If you have any questions about our fire grilles, or would like any further information or advice, please do not hesitate to contact us.
You van view our full range of Fire Grilles Here
Compression Seals
Fire Seal Store offers a range of Compression Seals available for next day delivery. One of the most widely used compression seals is the P Shape seal (Pictured left). This seal can be used around doors and windows to help protect a property from the elements, and also prevent heat escaping. When installed the compression seal is squeezes often 10 to 15% of its original diameter to cause a snug, secure seal.
Compression seals can help absorb the tolerance between surfaces, for instance when a building moves, bends or flexes, compression seals can absorb this without losing the snug seal. They are particularly useful for buildings that use timber, or other wood. This is due to wood expanding over time, this can cause normal seals to break or lose their sealing properties. A compression seal will bend and flex to help maintain a secure seal.
In addition to its flexible properties, a compression seal can also maintain their seals to a range of pressures up to 200psi. This is perfect for high pressure environments to ensure a secure seal is always present. Compression Seals are available in a range of shapes and sizes, from rectangular gins to quad rings. Many do the same job as a p shaped compression seal, however P shape seals are more widely used due to their ease of installation and fantastic sealing properties. At Fire Seal Store our p-shaped seals are available in a number of different colours, this ensures that your seal blends seamlessly into your window or door frame.
All of our compression seals are available for next day home delivery.
You can find out more information and view our full range of Compression Seals here.
Glazing Seals
Fire Seal Store has a large selection of Glazing Seals that are all available to order online. Our glazing seals not only provide an exceptional seal to the elements but are also fire rated for up to 60 minutes. We ensure that we provide a large selection of colours so that you are able to match your window frames perfectly. In addition our glazing seals can be used on PVC and Wooden Window Frames.
We only stock our glazing seals from the leading manufactures such as PyroPlex, Lorient, Hodgson Sealants and Sealmaster. This ensures that you receive the highest quality seals without compromise on style and practicality.
Pyroplex FG30
One of our most popular glazing seals is the Pyroplex FG30 Glazing Gaket this 30 minute rated seal is fully flexible and is ideally used in a number of different applicants. This seal is supplied on slimline reels making it easy to store and it also minimises wastage. In addition this seal is also approved for use on slimline economical beads. The seal is tested to BS 476: Part 22: 1987 and other international standards. They are compliant with the requirements of Certifire TS25 (Certificate No. CF348). This is one of the best selling glazing seals due to its high standard finish and ease of fitting. You can purchase the Pyroplex FG30 here.
System 90 Glazing Seal
The System 90 Glazing Seal is another popular seal that Fire Seal Store supplies. The System 90 is currently on offer starting from only £15.20 +Vat. This glazing seal offers exceptional value for money offering a massive 60 Minute fire rating. This U bend seal is available in a range of different colours including, white, brown, cream and red allowing it to discretely blend in to any door frame. This glazing seal is tested to BS476: Part22. You can purchase the System 90 Seal here
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Noberne Doors FD30 Fire Test
Noberne Group tested their Series3 30 minute fire door with a 1200mm x 400mm glazed aperture using 6mm Pyroshield 2 with a PVC retro fit bead system. Achieving a result of 59 minutes & 40 seconds. Impressive! Visit our YouTube Channel for our latest videos.
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Intumescent Sheets
Intumescent Sheets has many uses for fire protection, it is typically used for the lining of fire door panels offering extensive protection from heat and fire. Intumescent Sheets can also be used for use under hinges, locks, filing cabinets, storage boxes and more.
Intumescent Sheet
Fire Seal Store supply Pyroplex® Intumescent Sheets as being one of the leading manufacturers of Passive Fire Protection products, you can be assured of high quality protection. Some of the key features of Pyroplex® Intumescent Sheets are:
- Proven per formance in terms of fire resistance
- Fully flexible, high shear and tear resistant yet easy to cut
- Supplied in 1m x 1m rolls with a 1.8mm thickness
- Unaffected by moisture
- 1 Hour fire rated
One of the key features of the Pyroplex® Intumescent Sheets is that it exhibits an expansion factor of 20:1 ratio when it is exposed to high temperatures. Once the intumescent sheet reaches its expanding temperature, it will expand multi-directionally to provide and importantly maintain insulation and integrity to restrict the path of fire.
Fire Protection
Fire protection is extremely important when building your own home, or a large block of flats, it could be a matter of life or death. Ensuring you have the correct fire protection products is vital, Fire Seal Store has a wide range of fire seals, smoke seals, intumescent seals and more, to ensure that your truly protected against fire. This post will help give you an overview of some seals that we sell to help improve fire protection in buildings.
Fire Seals
Fire Seals are one of the easiest ways to improve fire protection in your home or business, by adding fire seals around doors, windows and other openings can help prevent fire from spreading to a room for a period of time. They are extremely easy to install as they come with a self-adhesive backing to ensure a secure, tight fit.
All of the fire seals that are available on our online store are tested to BS 476 part 20:22 for fire only and BS 476 part 31:1 for smoke leakage, giving a comprehensive combined fire and smoke seal.
Example of a Fire Seal
Our range of fire seals are available in a choice of 30-60 minute ratings, which means that they should withstand flames and smoke for up to 30, or 60 minutes depending on the seal. The majority of our fire seals also come in a choice of colours and finishes to match your door, to help provide sufficient sealing and protection, without intruding on the style of your door.
Smoke Seals
It’s not just fire’s that can be harmful when a building is ablaze, there are also a mix of toxic smoke that can be extremely harmful to you lungs. Toxic smoke in a fire can come from a range of sources such as melting plastic, therefore installing smoke seals are extremely important.
Example of a Smoke Seal
Smoke seals are designed to help prevent harmful smoke from spreading throughout a burning building, ideal in case you become trapped in a room. Many smoke seals are designed to expand when they reach a certain temperature to help seal a door or window from smoke. As with fire seals, they also come with a 30-60 minute fire rating, which can be the difference between life and death.
Our smoke seal range comes in a range of colours to blend into your door-frame surrounding without being too intrusive of the design. Similar to fire seals, they also have a self-adhesive backing to ensure a secure fit. Many of our fire seals and smoke seals are combined, this allows you to install one seal to prevent fire and smoke from spreading.
Intumescent Seals
Intumescent seals are the new generation of fire seals, they are designed to be used in fire door assemblies, a necessity for controlling fire spreading through buildings. Intumescent seals have PVC casings that contain an expandable graphite-based compound which is unaffected by moisture in the air. This means that they do not need to be protected when fitted.
Example of an Intumescent Seal
Once the expandable graphite in the intumescent seal reaches a certain temperature, a foam is then produced to fill the door leaf to frame gap. This helps stabilise fire door assembilies as the move and expand under the heat of the fire. This makes intumescent seals the ideal choice for fire protection.
