Dos & Don’ts
When installing Fire Protect Glass for doors and partitions in your building, here are a few dos and don’ts that can ensure optimum fire resistance and fire safety to protect you …
Dos
Always use transparent fire rated doors for fire protection. If you use the traditional wire glass for doorways, you can replace them with more effective fire proof, transparent glass for doors and partitions that can offer fire resistance up to 2 hours.
When installing Fire Protect Glass for doors and partitions in your building, here are a few dos and don’ts that can ensure optimum fire resistance and fire safety to protect you …
Dos
- Keep the exit, exit access and exit discharge free of all obstructions or impediments.
- Mark the exit way and the route to reach the exits clearly using visual signs to guide the occupants of the floor concerned.
- Ensure the exit sign is marked green in colour.
- Ensure that the exit doorways open into an enclosed stairway or the horizontal exit of a corridor or passageway providing continuous and protected means of egress.
- Ensure that the exit doorways shall be openable from the side which they serve without the use of a key.
- Never use Lifts & escalators in an event of a fire.
- Do not put mirrors in exit ways or exit doors to avoid confusion regarding the direction of exit.
- Do not construct a staircase around a lift shaft.
- Do not use automatic sprinklers where water reactive materials are kept.
- Do not lock the fire exit doors ever
- Do not use any combustible objects like carpet or wooden boards in the exit way
Always use transparent fire rated doors for fire protection. If you use the traditional wire glass for doorways, you can replace them with more effective fire proof, transparent glass for doors and partitions that can offer fire resistance up to 2 hours.
