The British Woodworking Federation (BWF) has changed the rules of its BWF-Certifire fire door and doorset quality assurance scheme and excluded doors with unglazed apertures.
The scheme will now cover only apertured and glazed doors, which the BWF says is the “safest form of supply”.
“We’ve always recommended that doors should be cut and glazed by certified, licensed converters within our scheme,” said BWF-Certifire chairman Peter Johnson. “Our concern has been that selling apertured unglazed doors on the open market risks them being glazed by those operating outside the scheme’s controls.”
Under the previous rules, he said, scheme members could “go to the trouble of producing a certified and correctly labelled door, only to have its safety compromised by others who are not licensed convertors, or who glaze on site”.
“The new rules get rid of this anomaly and ensure that all scheme fire doors will remain within the boundaries of safety and certification.”
