Our Services
At MCR Builders, we understand the importance of fire safety in both residential and commercial properties.
We offer a comprehensive range of fire protection services to ensure your building complies with all regulations and safeguards your occupants. Our team of qualified fire protection specialists possesses extensive experience in all aspects of passive fire protection, fire prevention, and fire door installation.
Fire compartmentation:
We create fire-resistant compartments within your building using fire-rated walls, floors, and ceilings. This compartmentalization restricts the spread of fire and smoke, containing the blaze within a designated area and allowing occupants in other compartments to evacuate safely. Fire compartmentation is particularly important in buildings with multiple floors or separate use areas, such as residential apartment buildings or commercial buildings with office spaces and retail units.
Fire-resistant glazing:
We install fire-resistant glass within walls, doors, and partitions. This specialized glass offers the benefits of both fire resistance and transparency. Fire-resistant glazing provides visual connection between spaces while maintaining a fire barrier for a designated period, allowing occupants to see what's happening in adjacent areas during a fire emergency. This can be crucial for ensuring a safe and orderly evacuation.
Fire stopping:
Fire stopping involves identifying and sealing potential gaps and penetrations in fire-resistant walls and floors. These gaps and penetrations, created for building services like electrical cables, plumbing pipes, and ventilation ducts, can act as pathways for fire and smoke to spread. Our MCR Builders team uses a variety of fire stopping materials and techniques to effectively seal these openings, maintaining the integrity of the fire compartments.
Fireproofing:
Structural steel elements within a building provide crucial support. However, steel loses its strength rapidly when exposed to high temperatures. Fireproofing involves applying fire-resistant coatings to structural steel elements. These coatings act as an insulating layer, protecting the steel from the direct heat of a fire and ensuring it retains its structural integrity for a designated period. This helps to prevent building collapse and allows firefighters to safely access the building to extinguish the blaze.
Fire escape route signage:
Clear and compliant signage is essential for guiding occupants towards designated fire escape routes in case of an emergency. MCR Builders can install a variety of fire escape route signs throughout your building, ensuring they are visible and easy to understand. These signs should be photoluminescent (glow in the dark) to provide visibility even in low-light or smoky conditions.
Fire door installation:
Our experienced team can install various types of fire doors to suit your specific needs. This may include fire escape doors, self-closing doors, and smoke doors. All fire doors we install are compliant with relevant building regulations and certified to withstand fire for a designated period.
Fire door maintenance and repair:
Regular maintenance is essential to ensure your fire doors function properly in the event of a fire. We offer a fire door maintenance service to inspect your doors, identify any issues, and perform necessary repairs to maintain their integrity.
Fire door surveys:
We can conduct fire door surveys to assess the condition of your existing fire doors and identify any potential problems. This proactive approach helps you ensure your fire doors meet all safety regulations and provide adequate fire protection.
Benefits of Choosing MCR Builders for Your Fire Safety Needs
MCR Builders is your trusted partner for comprehensive fire safety solutions in Manchester.
Our team of qualified fire protection specialists is dedicated to ensuring your building is safe and compliant. By choosing MCR Builders, you can benefit from the following advantages:
Expertise and Experience:
Our team has extensive knowledge and experience in all aspects of fire safety, from passive fire protection to fire prevention and fire door installation.
Customised Solutions:
We tailor our fire safety solutions to your specific needs, ensuring your building is protected in the best possible way.
Compliance and Regulation Adherence:
We stay up-to-date with the latest fire safety regulations and ensure all our solutions meet the highest standards.
Customer Focus:
Your safety and satisfaction are our top priorities. We work closely with you to understand your requirements and provide personalized service.
Quality Assurance:
We use only high-quality materials and employ rigorous quality control measures to ensure the reliability and durability of our fire safety solutions.
Competitive Pricing:
We offer competitive pricing for our fire safety services without compromising on quality or service.
Members of FMB
MCR has been a member of the Federation of Master Builders for over five years
Fire protection and compartmentation work
MCR holds third-party accreditation from BM TRADA