Compliance Made Easy
Safety and freedom
of movement at Each
Peach Childcare
door, which automatically close the door when the alarm is activated.
A separate transmitter is wired directly into the fire alarm system
Each Peach Childcare in Hove, East Sussex, which means you can instantly check that all units are working, and
provides quality childcare and education for everything is running smoothly.
children from new babies to five years old.
Quick installation
“We have 70-80 children on an average day here at Each Peach so Suzanne said: “We had units fitted to 10 doors and the whole
it is a very lively environment,” said Suzanne Charlesworth, Nursery installation, including the transmitter and repeater, took less than an
Manager. “There’s always plenty of activity, so it can become very noisy hour. It’s made such a difference — we can safely keep the doors open,
with children playing and chatting to each other. Staff and children and every time the alarm is tested, they close, which is reassuring.”
regularly move around between rooms, and out into the garden, so
it’s important that the building is accessible.”
Fire doors causing difficulties
“During collection times it can get very busy, with large numbers of
parents picking up their children, finding their things and talking to
other parents. We need to make sure everyone can move around
easily so there’s no traffic jams! Our fire doors kept getting in the way
so we had to wedge them open to make life easier. We’d also had
problems with the doors closing too quickly on people, so we were
worried about safety.”
Each Peach had tried to solve the problem of door wedges by
“It’s easier for people to move through the building at peak times
now, and the kids can run about without worrying that doors will close
on them. Keeping the doors open has been great for ventilation as
well, particularly in the kitchen. Dorgard Pro’s transmitter is radio-
activated, so it isn’t affected by background noise. Everything works
really well.”
“With the transmitter installed, the units have a five-year battery life,
which is cost-effective. Dorgard Pro has given us peace of mind,
knowing that we can safely keep doors open, but we’ll be protected
if there’s a fire.”
installing devices to legally hold open fire doors. Suzanne continued:
“Other door hold-open devices had been set off by the noise of
children shouting and laughing. They just weren’t right for us.”
Each Peach asked Fireco to find a solution to this problem and Dorgard
Pro was installed. With Dorgard Pro, retainers are fitted to each fire
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