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.
