Fire-rated doors will increase the safety of your facility in a pretty big way, and they’re fairly easy to install. However, what most people don’t realize is there are several things that can easily cause your door to lose its fire-rating. Instead of having you search all over the internet and Google phrases such as, […]
Read moreFire-rated doors are excellent options when it comes to increasing the safety of your facility. Their purpose is pretty obvious – to keep fire and smoke from spreading throughout your facility. However, there are quite a few factors that come into play to guarantee that your door doesn’t lose its fire rating. Over time […]
Read moreThe most popular way to electrify an opening for access control remains the electric strike, but is it the best way? Electric Strikes in Fire-Rated Openings For stairwell openings that must be unlocked in the event of a fire yet positively latched, the answer is simple: one must use an electric lock (or exit device […]
Read moreCommercial safes are nothing new to the loss prevention world; since being patented in 1835 safes have done nothing but increase in security and presence, which means it’s probably not necessary to spell out the benefits of installing a safe and protecting the valuables of your facility, business or home. Widely considered non-negotiable, commercial safes […]
Read moreI need to install new hardware on a door, but I’m not sure if it’s fire-rated. How can I find out? It is very important to know if a door is fire-rated before making any modifications to the door. Certain products and door modifications compromise the door’s ability to keep fire from passing through the […]
Read moreCommercial safes are nothing new to the loss prevention world, since being patented in 1835 safes have done nothing but increase in security and presence. Which means it’s probably not necessary to spell out the benefits of installing a safe and protecting the valuables of your facility, business or home. Widely considered non-negotiable, commercial safes […]
Read moreThere are a handful of well-known and trusted blogs in the door and hardware industry; one of the most popular being iDigHardware. The site is managed by Lori Greene, AHC/CDC, CCPR, FDHI and as the many acronyms after her name suggest, she knows what she’s talking about when it comes to door and hardware […]
Read moreWhy Is Fire Rating Important? Fire-rated doors are designed to serve as a barrier to fire and keep fire from passing through the opening for a specified period of time. In order for them to operate properly, these doors must have only fire-rated hardware installed. If non-fire-rated hardware is installed, the entire door opening will […]
Read moreI subscribe to dozens of industry blogs and RSS feeds, one of my favorites is Lori Greene’s ‘I Dig Hardware’. She has excellent insight into new and functional products and creative means to handle regularly occuring issues. In her post this morning she discusses this amazing product that was introduced at DHi’s CoNEXTions 2012 yesterday. It’s […]
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