What is the difference between fire rated doors and fire certified doors?

Communal Staircase Fire

When it comes to Fire Certified and Fire Rated Doors, confusion
creeps in and catches a lot of people out. But which one do you need? Well,
this would depend on the fire risk assessment for the building. This can also
be an insurance related requirement, but it’s important to note that many
insurance brokers are not aware of the differences between fire rated and fully
certified entrances.

How automatic commercial doors can improve customer experience

Aluminium Shopfront with a pair of Aluminium Swing Doors

As a business owner, you know that providing a positive customer experience is essential to building a loyal customer base. One way to improve the customer experience is by installing automatic commercial doors. Here are just a few ways that automatic sliding doors can benefit your business and your customers:

The hidden reason your doors do not shut properly

Aluminium Swing Door with Sidelight

A common issue with entrance doors is that they do not shut properly with one door staying open or they can be very heavy to push or pull open followed by the door slamming shut behind you. Have you had door engineers out to fix the problem only to find the problems persist? Did they consider the problem could be due to stack pressure?

Changing old swing doors to new sliding doors

Automatic Swing Door

We are often asked if it’s possible to change the older style swing doors to the new auto sliding entrance type. Most of the time it is possible, even when you may not think it can be done.

Hygiene benefits to serving hatches and windows

Heavy Duty Single Sliding Window at Chapel Row Surgery

In light of the 2020 outbreak of Coronavirus, it’s so important now more than ever to ensure your building is as hygienic as possible.

A great way to aid this is to use automatic doors as you know but have you considered using serving windows or hatches as a way to serve customers without the need for them to enter your premises?

Avoiding getting your back door smashed in

Steel Fire Escape Door

Ever had bad damage to your back door, back yard door or coral doors?

If you have any sort of delivery cages or pallets coming through your back door then the chances are that you have suffered damage to the door, the frame, the panic bar or surrounding walls.