Fire Door Accessories

Fire Door Closers and Stops: Buying Guide

It's important to have the right fire safety equipment for your home or business. Fire doors are essential in preventing the spread of fire and smoke and having the right fire door accessories can maximise the efficiency and effectiveness of your fire doors. To fulfil their function correctly, fire doors should remain closed – an automatic door closer will return the door to the closed position after it has been opened.

Fire Door Closers are excellent fire safety devices that are easy to install, meet all applicable fire regulations and safety standards and don’t require hard-wired connections to operate. Fire door retainers are devices that are powered by batteries and keep fire doors open when conditions are safe but will close them automatically when an alarm sounds for a predetermined length of time.

Our Dorgard Fire Door Retainer will automatically close a fire door after an alarm sounds above 65dB. It operates on two C batteries and features a low-battery indicator that alerts you when it is time to replace them. Simply attach it to a fire door with four screws and insert the batteries to activate. Our Sonicco Shuttle Premium Fire Door Retainer features an LCD screen to control its functions and perform weekly maintenance tests.

Another very useful fire door accessory is the Agrippa Acoustic Digital Door Holder – a simple way to hold fire doors open legally. This clever device will hold your fire exit door open but will release the door if your fire alarm sounds. Easy to install, this wireless, battery operated door holder will ignore other loud noises such as car alarms and only respond to the default setting of 65db – the typical volume of a fire alarm. It can also be programmed to close your fire doors at a specific time each day if required.

We also supply Fire Door Exit Bundles which include the necessary signage to complement your fire door retainers and closers and alert people to the presence of your fire exits.

Exit Stoppers prevent unauthorised exits and entrances through emergency doors. Our door exit stoppers operate on a single 9v battery and automatically warn you when the battery is losing power. This device emits a 90dB alarm if an unauthorised person opens the door but an authorised person can override the device with a key. Our Exit Stoppers are available for both single and double doors.

Panic bolts are also very useful in the workplace, especially in food preparation and clean room areas. If an emergency occurs, it is critical that your employees and any visitors leave via your building’s designated emergency exits and evacuate the premises as quickly as possible. The panic bolts that allow passage through the emergency exits must be reliable and easy to operate to minimise the possibility of a malfunction that could result in serious injuries or even fatalities. Our Heavy-Duty Panic Bolts are the ideal solution to make certain that your emergency exit doors operate successfully. The bolts are manufactured from heavy die-cast aluminium and are supplied with all the necessary fittings to install the device in many locations.

Fire doors are instrumental in ensuring the safety of employees in the event of a fire. Our Intumescent Door Seals for Fire and Smoke are a very effective way to ensure that smoke and fire don’t get past your fire doors in an emergency. The seals expand when they encounter heat, creating an impenetrable seal around the door that prevents smoke from coming through and holds back the fire for up to one hour.

The extra time provided by the containment of the fire by the seals effectively limits any risk to your employees and your building.