Fire-Rated Door Installations in Somerset

Fire-Rated Doors and Cold Room Doors at Somerset Cheese Facility

MTCSS recently returned to our customers’ cheese making facility in Somerset to complete the next phase of their project – a range of door solutions in their new cold rooms and temperature controlled rooms. Their expansion required development to their existing cheese-making facilities to accommodate their rapid growth. 

We supplied and installed a range of fire-rated doors and cold room doors designed bespoke to our customer’s specific requirements. 

MTCSS’ Fire-Rated Door Solutions 

Phase one of the project MTCSS designed, supplied and installed a range of cold rooms from cold room panels and fire-rated panels. Find out more about phase one here!  

For phase two, MTCSS supplied and installed fire-rated door and cold room door solutions to the newly installed rooms and cold room panels. 

Our customer needed a total of eleven door solutions – ten fire-rated doors and one cold room door. 

Installing Fire Rated Doors and Cold Room Doors 

Each of the rooms required different fire rated doors to fit the varying requirements of the temperature-controlled rooms – helping them prevent any fire or smoke from spreading across the entire facility. 

Boxing Room

The MTCSS team installed three doors within the boxing room:

• Two 900mm x 2000mm fire exit doors complete with panic bar and internal locking system 
• One 60-minute fire rated personnel door with self-closing device and vision panel 
• All fitted to 150mm fire rated wall panels 

Vision panels help improve safety levels within a room, as it allows you to view what’s on the other side of the door before entering the room. If a fire was spreading inside the room, you’d be able to look through the vision panel initially as opposed to exposing yourself (or your employees) to danger. 

Wrapping/Packing Room

There was only one door solution required in the wrapping room:

• One 60-minute fire rated personnel door with a self-closing device and vision panel 
• Fitted to 150mm fire rated wall panels 

Self-closing devices are useful as they automatically close your fire rated doors in the event of a fire. This helps to prevent the spread of fire or smoke throughout your business, as well as helping to protect your employees.

Dry Goods Room

Two doors were installed in the dry goods room: 

• One 60-minute fire rated door with a self-closing device and vision panel, fitted to 100mm fire rated panels 
• One fire exit door with a panic bar and internal lock, fitted to 150mm fire rated panels 

Dairy Extension

In the dairy room we installed one chiller cold room door: 

• 900mm x 2000mm hinged chiller cold room door, coated in a plastic-covered metal sheet suitable for food applications 
• 68mm panel thickness 

The MTH cold room door was installed in-between the hallway and existing dairy extension of their facility to align with the chilled temperatures that keep the dairy room consistently refrigerated, and allowed easy access between the two rooms for a streamlined operation. 

Brine Room

For the final room, our team installed four door solutions: 

• Three 60-minute fire rated personnel door with self-closing devices and vision panels 
• One 900mm x 2000mm fire exit door completed with panic bar and internal locking system 
• Fitted to 150mm fire rated wall panel 

The experts at MTCSS placed and secured the door frames to ensure they were level, and then made all the necessary connections/adjustments for the doors to open and seal as intended. This was repeated for all eleven doors throughout the project and ensured consistency throughout the cheese making facility. 

If you’d like more information, or think your business could benefit from a fire-rated solution – fire-rated doors or fire-rated panel systems – get in contact with MTCSS today to discuss your requirements! Our experts are available Monday to Friday and are contactable on the following: 

Email us at sales@mtcss.flywheelsites.com, call us on 01886 833381 or fill in an enquiry form here!