Category Archives: panic hardware

Doorstuff is hiring!

We have a position in Newton Abbot, Devon for Technical Sales & Customer Service within this long established, family run company covering a combination of traditional architectural ironmongery services, internet and trade counter sales.  We are looking for a confident, dynamic … Continue reading

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Get creative with Doorstuff!

Send us your photos for a chance to win a 7” 8GB Kindle Fire HD   All you need to do is send in a photo a door hardware product you have purchased from us, either being fitted or once … Continue reading

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Cue the music…door signage…

Can I include this photo under door signage? – Ed.

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Exidor panic hardware for double uPVC fire escape doors

It is drummed into us how secure uPVC doors are (in addition to their other merits) but unfortunately, where these doors are required to be fire escapes in for example schools, care homes or HMOs, this is a fallacy.  Unless … Continue reading

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Exidor 306 panic hardware – for when that escape door absolutely has to lock behind you

The Exidor 306 is a panic hardware push pad actuator unit with a cylinder mortice night latch case that will lock behind you everytime you leave or enter the building through the fire escape.  Each time a user tries to … Continue reading

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Anne Marie Morris MP visits Doorstuff

Doorstuff today welcomed Member of Parliament for Newton Abbot Anne Marie Morris for a visit and tour, meeting some of our team and then sharing coffee and doughnuts with invited neighbouring business owners Roger of HBD Flooring and Mark of … Continue reading

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It’s time to check your Panic Hardware!

It is important that all panic and emergency exit hardware devices are inspected and maintained properly to ensure safety is maintained when exiting a building in any situation.  Once the device is fitted regular maintenance is recommended. Weekly: • Make … Continue reading

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Temporary Dwellings in Disaster Zones Built From Cardboard Tubes

A Japanese architect has won the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize for designing a range of buildings for refugees of natural disasters.  Shigeru Ban uses long cardboard tubes to construct “low-cost but dignified housing” which he first proposed in 1994 in … Continue reading

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Latch a surface mounted panic latch to a double rebated door – use a box keep

This handy little keep is mounted to the edge of the first opening leaf of a fire escape door or crash door and provides a keeper for the surface (rim) mounted panic latch bolt in the case of a double rebated door.  … Continue reading

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A fire door test at Lorient

Members of the Institute of Architectural Ironmongers were treated to a fire test at Lorient UK‘s headquarters in Newton Abbot today.  The furnace was fitted with two miniature hinged 30 minute fire doors (FD30s) each with reinforced vision panels.  The … Continue reading

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