Fire Door Collection - Flipbook - Page 6
Neuma fds fire door system
Before The Test
TESTING
THE fds FIRE
DOOR SYSTEM
Performance, compliance
and consistency are critical
in a fire protection system.
Before a fire door test commences, the
manufacture of two complete fire doorset
samples must be witnessed and assessed
by an independent third-party auditor. Each
sample is examined, making sure all gaps are
measured, and are within the tight tolerances
stated in the Field of Application and that
the brands of the individual components,
including screws, are recorded. This is to
ensure that the fire doorset samples to be
tested exactly match the stated specification
on the Primary Test Evidence.
Approved Document B of the current
building regulations, requires all composite
fire doorsets in the UK to be furnace tested
to both sides and certified to BS476 Part
22 or to BS EN 1634-1:2014, the European
equivalent, by a UKAS or European test
house. This is to demonstrate how the
doorset will perform in a fire and provide
unequivocal evidence to validate the
performance of the door.
Whilst the temperature curve is the
same for both British and European
test standards, the European standard
BS EN 1634-1:2014 represents a higher
performance standard due to the harsher
pressure levels the doorset is subjected to
inside the furnace during testing.
The Neuma fds fire door system has been
tested to the more demanding
BS EN 1634-1:2014 as standard.
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Two doorset samples are produced
because a GRP composite fire door must
be bi-directionally tested to establish its
performance when either face is exposed to
fire conditions.
Once manufactured, both composite fire
doorset samples are labelled and signed
to ensure that they cannot be altered or
replaced before the furnace test.
