Performance doorset manufacturer, Leaderflush Shapland, can now offer ‘a highly effective’ intumescent seal option for doors – EcoGuard – that provides up to 30 and 60 minutes of fire resistance, and allows ‘an extremely clean and simple installation’.
The new ‘wedge-shaped’ seal is designed for application between the gaps of a door frame and surrounding wall during installation, ‘for a more precise, dry fit’. The wedge shape accommodates varying gap widths around the perimeter, while its compressible nature ensures an appropriate friction fit. The company said: “EcoGuard offers contractors and installers accurate, even coverage around the frame perimeter, without the need for tubes of intumescent mastic.” EcoGuard 30 and 60 have already been used successfully at Glasgow’s Southern General Hospital, where Leaderflush Shapland is supplying some 7,600 doorsets. The product, and especially its intumescent properties, are ‘backed up’ by rigorous testing in accordance with British Standard BS476 part 22. Stephen Hutsby, new product development manager, added: “Fire doors are highly effective in retaining fire for a specified time, but the areas around the frame’s perimeter must also be considered. Fire will penetrate any gap, and it is thus crucial that this area be effectively sealed.”
