Fire Stopping

This involves ensuring your buildings have the structural integrity to withstand a fire for a period of time, generally allowing for enough time for people to evacuate the building. It’s not always possible to stop a fire; however, ensuring you have the ability to withhold and contain a fire, even for a short period of time can provide crucial minutes to ensure employees and guests can escape and property damage be minimised.

The fire stopping service provides a selection of comprehensive packages, which can involve from looking at the building, ascertaining what it’s made of, to the kind of material within the building which may add to the fire risk. Other services can be remedial and cover specific problems such as applying intermittent paint to a surface to increase its fire stopping potential. A good example of this is being able to upgrade a current fire door in situ to achieve the relative fire standard. This is particularly useful in older properties and period buildings where original doors can be kept by using intermittent paint.

Ensuring the correct fire safety equipment available within the building is imperative too, from fire alarms, to the correct number and type of fire extinguishers. The report takes into account the ability to compartmentalise a fire e.g. through use of fire doors, and how long the installed fire door could stop a fire spreading, which can be anything from 30 to up to 60 minutes.

Call Fire Crest Fire Protection today on 0800 092 4021 to see how the fire stopping service can help you and your premises.