Fire Doors
What Is a Fire Door? Where It Differs
A fire door is an assembly designed to delay fire and smoke passing from one compartment to another. How leaf, frame, seals, closer and hardware work as one system.
Guides
Reading that helps when choosing a steel door, measuring an opening and living with it afterwards. Each topic gathers one area of decision.
Fire Doors
Steel Door Sizes and Installation
Steel Door Installation Step by Step
From stripping the old door to closing the new leaf for the first time, installation follows a fixed order. The checks at each step and what breaks when a step is rushed.
Steel Door Sizes and Installation
Steel Door Frames: The Half That Carries Everything
Buyers look at the leaf; fitters look at the frame. Profile forming, depth, keep pockets, anchoring and architrave design decide a door's life more than the leaf does.
Steel Door Locks and Security
Steel Door Will Not Open: What to Check First
Key will not turn, the bolt is jammed, a key broke in the cylinder, or the door locked itself. The likely cause of each, what you can safely try, and when to stop.
Steel Door Locks and Security
Steel Door Lock Systems and Replacement
On a steel door the lock is constrained by leaf thickness, backset and frame keeps. What can be upgraded without touching the leaf, what cannot, and why most lock faults are not the lock.
Steel Door Locks and Security
Door Locks: Types, Mechanics and Selection
Cylinder, lever, multi-point, electronic and mortice locks solve the same problem differently. A practical walk through each mechanism and the criteria that actually matter when choosing.
Steel Door Sizes and Installation
How to Measure a Steel Door Opening
A wrong measurement turns a finished door into scrap. This is the order we ask for: rough opening width, height, wall thickness, floor level and swing direction, with the traps at each step.
Steel Door Models
Granite Finish Steel Doors: What the Texture Really Is
Granite look steel doors are not clad in stone. Here is how the texture is produced, where it suits, how it handles scratches and cleaning, and what to check before ordering one.
Fire Doors
Fire Door Installation: Common Site Mistakes
A fire door only performs as installed. Escape direction, frame fixing, closer adjustment, panic bar height and gap tolerances - the site errors that quietly cancel a certified door.
Steel Door Prices
How to Read a Steel Door Catalogue
The picture in a door catalogue is the easy part. This guide explains the lines underneath it: clear opening versus overall size, surface codes, core, lock specification and what to confirm before you order.
Steel Door Prices
Steel Door Manufacturing: From Coil to Finished Door
What actually happens inside a steel door workshop: sheet selection, cutting, press braking, frame welding, core filling, surface finishing and hardware fitting, described in production order with the tolerances that matter.
Steel Door Prices
Inside a Steel Door Factory
A steel door passes through seven or eight stations between the coil and the crate. Knowing what each one decides tells a buyer which questions are worth asking.