Our single fire exit doors come with panic crash bars comprise of the following features.
Standard fire exit door size.
Metric standard door sizes.
All of these standard uk door sizes are usually available as a fire door equivalent with the only difference being an increased door thickness.
Above all equip doors with panic hardware and fire exit hardware.
The door vision panels for the 90 minute pair doors are allowed to exceed 100 square inches because the door incorporates fire resistive glazing that meets astm e 119.
There is an approved document guidance available from the builders hardware industry federation bhif hardware for fire and escape doors.
The total number of persons which two or more available exits after discounting can accommodate is found by adding the maximum number of persons that can be accommodated by each exit width.
Fire exit doors are the final door on an emergency exit route that must lead to a place of safety.
Of course many people still work in feet and inches and if so here s a useful conversion chart.
29 door slab with a frame size of 32 11 16 35 x 81 11 16.
Expandable frame to accommodate.
An exit access must be at least 28 inches 71 1 cm wide at all points.
For example this should not be less than 30 inches and not more than 44 inches above the floor.
Hardware consisting of bars that extend to at least half of the width of the door leaf.
Where there is only one exit access leading to an exit or exit discharge the width of the exit and exit discharge must be at least equal to the width of the exit access.
2040 x 526 626 726 826 926 x 40mm.
Objects that project into the exit must not reduce its width.
For example 3 exits each 850mm wide will accommodate 3 x 110 330 persons notthe 510 persons accommodated by a single exit 2550mm wide.
Metric sized internal doors are becoming increasingly popular and are most commonly used in scotland and europe.
Issue 4 2012 detailing the requirements for any fixtures and fittings used with fire doors and fire.
The main difference being an increased door height of 2040mm and door thickness of 40mm.
An applied force of 15 pounds should be enough to release the latch.
Common options are 2040 x 526 626 726 826 926 x 40mm.