The Importance of Planning Incase There’s a Fire in The Home

 It is important that you have a fire compartmentation survey as well as a fire door survey when you own a building because you will find out important information about the building that you may otherwise have not known.

It is important that in order to have sufficient home insurance you have had a survey that enables you to find out whether any alterations need to be made to cladding etc.

  1. Fire door

It is crucial that you have a fire door survey as they are very important. Fire doors are fire resistant and can stop the spread of fire for up to 4 hours per door, it is important that these are regularly checked as if the seal is damaged at all or painted over then it can impact the fire-resistant properties of the door and make them far less effective.

  1. Sections

Especially in industrial buildings such as care homes and other residential homes that have more regulations and guidelines to adhere to, it is important that have a regular fire compartmentation survey conducted as they are unable to get insurance if they are not adhered to.

Fire doors work so that in the event of a fire, sections of a building can be segregated to stop the fire from spreading.  There are many different types of fire doors that you can get, each with varying number of hours that they can hold a fire within, this is especially important in supported living and care homes where a full evacuation will take a lot longer than it would in the average home.

  1. Evacuation

Part of the planning process when it comes to fire safety within a house is planning the fire escape route. Whether you are on the ground floor or a floor higher up, it is important that you have a plan put in place so that if there is ever a fire you know exactly how to get out of your home and also have backup plans depending on when the actual fire is.

Fire safety ladders as well as fire extinguishers are a must in any home. Fire evacuation ladders are great for when there is a fire that is restricting you to just the upstairs as it is important that you have another route out.

  1. Planning

It is important that you don’t have the attitude that a fire will never happen to you, fires are nearly always unexpected events that can’t be easily avoided and will happen at the time when you least expect it. Planning is an important part of fire safety because if you fail to plan then you plan to fail, most instances where people have survived fires in their home, they have done so because they have a full plan in place and knew exactly what to do in every eventuality.

It is crucial for your safety that you remain cautious and are always prepared just in case a fire happens to hit your building.

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