How we do it
How do we | stop fires from spreading?
By correctly installing the right building products, we can slow the spread of fire. For example, ‘fire stopping’ seals holes around ducts and any other breaches in a compartment envelope. ‘Intumescent paint’ and ‘steel encasement’ insulate key structural elements. ‘Fire doors’ plug designed apertures. ‘Fire curtains’ create containment zones in open areas. ‘Cavity barriers’ prevent fire from spreading to other zones through the cavities in external walls. Finally, ‘fire rated partition walls and ceilings’ prevent fire from spreading upwards or outwards through internal walls and ceilings.
Fire Protection Services
Fire protection systems are crucial components in modern building design and construction. These systems are designed to prevent, contain, and mitigate the spread of fire, ensuring the safety of occupants and minimizing property damage. The following elements are essential in creating a comprehensive fire protection strategy:
Firestopping
This critical system seals penetrations around ducts, pipes, cables, and other breaches in compartment envelopes. By effectively sealing these openings, fire stopping prevents the spread of flames, smoke, and toxic gases between different areas of a building, maintaining the integrity of fire-rated walls and floors.
Intumescent paint & steel encasement
These protective measures insulate key structural elements, such as steel beams and columns. Intumescent paint expands when exposed to high temperatures, forming a protective char layer that insulates the steel and maintains its structural integrity during a fire. Steel encasement provides an additional layer of protection, further enhancing the fire resistance of critical load-bearing elements.
Fire Doors
These specially designed doors secure designated apertures within a building, such as entrances to stairwells, corridors, and rooms. Fire doors are constructed with fire-resistant materials and equipped with self-closing mechanisms, ensuring that they remain closed during a fire event to prevent the spread of flames and smoke between compartments.
Fire Dampers
These crucial devices are installed in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems to prevent the spread of fire and smoke through ductwork. When activated by heat or smoke detectors, fire dampers automatically close, sealing off the duct and maintaining the integrity of fire-rated walls and floors.
Fire-rated partition walls & ceilings
These structural elements are designed to impede vertical and horizontal fire propagation throughout a building. Constructed with fire-resistant materials and proper sealing techniques, these partitions create separate fire compartments, limiting the spread of fire and providing safe evacuation routes for occupants.
Cavity barriers
These essential components prevent fire spread through external wall cavities, which can act as chimneys for rapid fire propagation. Cavity barriers are installed within the void spaces of walls, floors, and roofs to compartmentalize these areas and inhibit the vertical and horizontal spread of fire and smoke.
Control the spread
What is | Passive Fire Protection?
Proper installation of advanced fire protection products is crucial in mitigating fire spread and enhancing building safety. Passive Fire Containment Limited utilises a comprehensive range of state-of-the-art solutions to address this critical need.
Fire protection systems are crucial components in modern building design and construction. These systems are designed to prevent, contain, and mitigate the spread of fire, ensuring the safety of occupants and minimising property damage. Our service elements are essential in creating a comprehensive fire protection strategy.
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Continuous High Standards
Our | Accreditations
These industry-recognised accreditations underscore our commitment to maintaining the highest standards of fire safety and protection across all our services. They demonstrate our expertise and dedication to providing top-tier fire containment solutions that meet or exceed regulatory requirements.
FIRAS (Fire Installers Registration and Accreditation Scheme)
Warringtonfire operates UKAS (United Kingdom Accreditation Service) accredited certification schemes for both products and companies involved in their installation. The FIRAS scheme promotes best practices for the installation and maintenance of passive fire protection products. It requires the implementation of quality assurance methods in procedures, competence, and documentation to ensure that appropriate quality control is being carried out and documented by the certified company.
ASFP (Association for Specialist Fire Protection)
ASFP is the UK’s leading trade association for the passive fire protection sector. Established in 1975, it brings together passive fire protection manufacturers, contractors, and testing/certification bodies. The association aims to encourage, develop, and provide guidance on essential standards in passive fire protection and to support the activities of the fire industry in relation to all forms of ‘built-in’ fire protection.