A fire exit door provides a special exit route during a fire emergency and protects lives by enabling quick evacuation. People also refer to it as a fire escape door or an emergency exit door. Buildings can avoid many fire disasters by installing fire exit doors. These doors offer an alternative path for escape when fire blocks the regular exit routes.
Fire Exit Door provides evacuation to the place where people can save their life. Fire exit doors are usually left open and if not then they should be opened easily. Because in an emergency people get panic and lost their sense so that is why these doors should be easy to use so that they can give quick evacuation.
The purpose of the fire door is to provide instant and unobstructed evacuation to the people. Builders install fire exit doors to save millions of lives from massive destruction. People can use fire exit doors as regular doors to ensure easy accessibility in case of a fire disaster.
The fire exit door should be installed in an easily accessible, un-hindered, and permanent location. It is designed to perform flawlessly in any fire hazardous situation. Fire exit doors should be well-lit People with normal vision can see along the exit route.The building management should mark the fire exit door with the sign “EXIT.” They must install it in an area that allows people to evacuate safely during any emergency.
They should also maintain and manage it properly. The effectiveness of a fire door and the type required depends on its location in the building, and the type of fire hazards surrounding it.
People commonly use fire exit doors, and they consider them an essential component of any building.
They install them in many different types of buildings such as:
Fire exit doors are provided a rating for fire-resistance. They are made from a combination of steel, glass, aluminum, and timber. There must be no gaps between the wall and door. If there is a gap between the door and wall, then this gap should be filled with a fire-resistant material.
The width of the door varies according to the requirement of the building. The minimum width for the new building is 36 inches and for the existing building is 28 inches.
Fire Doors are come up with the following accessories.
Manufacturers supply the doors with 304 stainless steel double ball-bearing hinges, sized 103x76x3mm. They provide 6 mm diameter screws to assemble the door leaf and door frames.
Doors are also providing with Panic Exit Device from inside of doors.ou don’t need a key to open the door. If a fire breaks out, anyone can easily open the door.
A Trim bar is also given with exit doors. The Trim bar is just like the lock with a handle. When we have to open the door from outside we can open the door by using this.
Doors are provided with a fire-resistant hydraulic door closer. Its capacity is 60-80 kg weight of door leaf fire resistant.
Manufacturers supply the doors with a door stopper that helps stop the door from closing.The door stopper has two-point rubber balls at the bottom.
The doors must have a fire-resistant glass panel. The size of the glass panel is 300×300 mm.Workers fix the glass on both faces of the door using a metallic frame. They use a rubber ring to grip the glass securely.
Manufacturers use rubber to make a smoke seal, which blocks the spread of smoke to the evacuation area.
Automatic drop bottom seals may be provided to close gape at the floor. It automatically works for opening and closing of the door.
All double doors must be provided with Flush type tower bolt.
The fire exit door is the requirement of any building. It comes in various types.
This looks strange that glass can be used in the manufacturing of the fire exit door. But yes it is possible because of overgrowing technology. Manufacturers make glass fire exit doors from fire-resistant glass. They use only glass that has passed certified fire tests in the manufacturing process. These glass fire doors can withstand temperatures up to 1600°F. Hospitals and offices commonly use them.
The material used in the manufacturing of such a type of door is timber. The timber used in its manufacturing has to pass certain fire tests. During testing, it tests the stability and integrity of the material to withstand the temperature inor heat.
Manufacturers make it from metal and wood, then polish the wood with powder to give it a refined look.
They are available in two colors red and brown. Manufacturers construct it from very strong and high-quality material. They fix it with stainless steel ball-bearing hinges. It is ideal to use in malls and museums.
Exit doors prevent many disasters and have many advantages. Some of the advantages are listed below.
You need to keep various points in mind while installing a fire escape door. Only a professional and highly skilled person should install it according to the specifications approved by the fire department to ensure the door performs at its maximum effectiveness.
As part of our continuous strive for innovation, Universal Fire Protection has launched its world-class fire-resisting doors and frames operation. Manufacturers produce the fire doors and frames in a fully automated plant using computer numerical controlled (CNC) machines, ensuring uniform quality and a superb finish.
Universal Fire Protection manufactures fire doors to meet various architectural requirements. They use Cold Rolled Steel, Galvanized Steel, or Stainless Steel to make their fire-rated doors.
Designers create these emergency exit doors for areas that require strength, stability, and durability.Typical applications include entrances to industrial premises, shops service doors, basements, stairs wells, and elevator shafts. Engineers and builders also widely use it as dividing or external doors in electrical and petrochemical plants.
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