Horizontal Sliding Fire Door

General Information

Sliding fire doors are typically large steel panels hung by rollers on an inclined rail or track.

Sliding fire doors are very useful in a wide range of spaces where larger openings are required to allow for heavy traffic, the doors are designed to separate fire areas within a building or protect the means of egress in the event of a fire, thereby limiting its spread.

Sliding fire doors are suitable for a range of residential, commercial, and industrial applications. Sometimes a conventional side-hung door is not feasible, particularly where large openings are required in walls to allow for the efficient movement of plant or equipment, people, vehicles and machinery. And in these cases sliding fire doors are perfect.

These kinds of fire doors are usually kept open and only close in the event of a fire, hence they must be linked to an emergency system that automatically activates if a fire, smoke or warning system/ alarm is triggered.

Fitzpatrick sliding doors can be manufactured in stainless steel or galvanized steel, frames are manufactured from 1.5mm sheet thickness while leaves are manufactured from 1.2 mm sheet thickness.

They are available in either a primed or powder coated finish to any available RAL color and can be manufactured in many sizes and many configurations to suit the architectural design of the protected area.

A big range of RAL colors is available upon the client’s request and in many textural finishes such as “Orange Peel”, “Sandy”, “Bright” or “Matt”.

Fitzpatrick sliding doors can also attain a wood-like finish by using the latest Italian Sublimation technologies. For more details refer to sublimation section in this catalog.

Fire Resistance

Fitzpatrick horizontal sliding fire doors have been successfully subjected to EN1634-1 for up to 240 min integrity.

Wicket Door

The option of a wicket door being built into your sliding door offers an emergency escape solution for the pedestrians since the sliding door will be in closing position.