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