Fire Safety
Letterplate ticks all the
boxes for meeting standards
and fire door compliance
FD60
The FD60 specification tests doorsets to
withstand at least 60 minutes protection
against fires. When tested as part of a
doorset, Yale’s Postmaster Professional TS008
letterplate not only exceeded the FD60
time test by an additional 25%, but also
successfully passed the smoke leakage test.
SECURED BY DESIGN (SBD)
Studies have shown that SBD recognised
developments are up to 75% less likely to
be burgled and show a reduction of 25% in
criminal damage 1 , while the Association of
British Insurers estimates that introducing
SBD across the UK would save the economy
more than £3.2 billion over the course of
20 years 2 . If a project is recognised by SBD,
it has shown that it meets a number of
exacting standards. As such, it has become
an important part of quality assurance for
housing providers and is referenced in UK
Building Regulations.
APPROVED DOCUMENT Q
TS008 certified letterplates are specifically
referenced within the Building Regulation’s
Approved Document Q as being shown
to protect against various attack methods,
including letterplate ‘fishing’.
The Yale Postmaster Professional letterplate
helps architects, specifiers, and OEMs to meet
all these standards. It is the most rigorously
tested TS008 product on the market and
comes from a brand that is trusted to produce
fully compliant doorset components.
The letterplate has an external austenitic
304 stainless steel letter flap that comes with
a 25-year surface finish guarantee. It also
features a flap that opens 180 degrees to help
eliminate excess leverage on pivot points and a
complete peripheral seal on the external flap to
help form a thermal and acoustic barrier.
The Yale Postmaster Professional is available
in a range of finishes including polished,
brushed, satin silver, gold, black and white,
and its elegant and slim design makes it
suitable even for narrow hallways. It also has
no sharp corners, reducing the risk of injury to
children and pets when held open by packages
and newspapers.
Opting for the Yale Postmaster Professional
TS008 letterplate on fire accredited doorsets
helps defend buildings against the spread of
fire and meet the latest PAS 24 standard. This,
in turn, allows OEMs, housebuilders, and
social housing providers to ensure they achieve
Secured by Design across all residences, in
order to continue to provide safe and quality
housing to the nation.
Yale Door and Window Solutions has also
launched a whitepaper to help architects,
specifiers, and OEMs to specify and fit
letterplates that meet PAS 24:2016, in line
with Secured by Design regulations.
To download the whitepaper, please visit
https://bit.ly/2T5UJcS.
www.yaledoorandwindowsolutions.co.uk
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TS008
The TS008 technical specification
was developed by the Door & Hardware
Federation (DHF) and covers ‘enhanced
security and general requirements for letter
plate assemblies and slide through boxes’. Its
main purpose is evaluating how the letterplate
performs against opportunist attacks from
burglars and other criminals, though it also
assesses its resistance to corrosion, water, and
fire.
PAS 24:2016
On 1st October 2018, an updated version
of the PAS 24 standard, which covers
enhanced security doorsets, came into effect.
PAS 24:2016 is now mandatory for all new
developments or refurbishment projects
that wish to meet Secured by Design, and
this includes the requirement for TS008
letterplates to be installed on all doorsets.
» IN THE UK, CURRENT GUIDANCE
states that public or private shared properties
should be compartmentalised – spilt into
smaller spaces with barriers preventing the
spread of fire and smoke. The fire doorsets
used to help create these compartments should
be able to halt fire for at least 30 minutes, with
taller or higher occupancy buildings needing
doors able to endure for at least 60 minutes.
Since its launch in 2018, Yale’s Postmaster
Professional TS008 letterplate has made
significant developments boasting a long list of
features that set it apart from other letterplates
in the market, most notably fire testing.
http://www.securedbydesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/securing-the-nation-the-case-for-safer-homes.pdf
Yale understands that keeping up to date on the
latest security standards can often be confusing.
From fire door compliance to meeting PAS 24:2016,
there are a number of factors to be considered.