A totally flawless natural product such timber is extremely rare. If you look very closely at any piece of internal joinery, you can find minor blemishes such as knots, raised grain and minor surface imperfections and varying colour and grain structures. When viewing our products, this should be done standing 2 meters away, with the full doorset being taken into consideration and a not a close-up isolated image.

All surfaces should be viewed in daylight from distance of 2m and not by shining artificial light on the surface. Wall lights and / or uplighters should be switched off.

Timber surfaces may show limited raised grain, and the colour and texture may also vary as veneer is a natural product so colour and grain will vary from batch to batch. Please note that veneers will change colour over time due to natural and artificial light, lighter veneers will darken, darker veneers will lighten.

Products sold as “Paint Grade” are primed only to be site finished. Site finished products will require preparing before finished coats are applied to achieve the desired customer finish.

Site decorated or site finished items such as architrave, glazing beads may have a different finished appearance from components that have been manufactured in a factory environment.

Drying and shrinkage of timber may cause cracking of the paint finish where joints occur in the woodwork.

Resin can exude from knots, causing discolouration of paintwork even though modern primers contain a compound to prevent this.

Hanson and Beards Limited are a third-Party certified fire door manufacturer and our area of expertise lies in the manufacture and fabrication of timber fire doors and door sets only.

Our installation guidelines provide guidance based upon the requirements of BS 8214:2016 for fire door installation and fire stopping requirements.

We strongly recommend that in all instances, the use of third party approved installers are sought to fit our products who will work in accordance with the installer scheme requirements and our fitting guidance documents.

We have no control over the accuracy of the installation process, and it is the sole responsibility of the installer to ensure that fire doors and door sets have been installed correctly.

Hanson and Beards Limited are not qualified to make any assessments or provide opinions on the suitability of other building fabrics or building elements such as structural opening load capacities, suitability of partitioning systems, specialist fixing types and methods or fire containment strategies for any building items other than those supplied and fitted directly into our timber fire doors and door sets.

Advice on anything other than the door set fabrication and the installation guidance, must be sought from specialist qualified sources.

How to do a Professional Inspection:

When inspecting toughened, laminated or coated glass, one should stand no less than three meters away from the glass at 90° whilst looking through the glass and not directly at it. Inspections should be carried in natural daylight but not looking directly towards the sun. Inspections should exclude a 50mm wide permitter around the edge of the glass.

What to Expect when Inspecting glass:

Toughened, laminated or coated glass is acceptable if the following are neither obtrusive nor bunched:

• Bubbles or blisters
• Fine scratches up to 25mm long
• Minute particles

Defects such as smears, fingerprints, or other dirt on the faces of the glass are unacceptable, if they are visually disturbing.

The life expectancy of Our Internal Doorsets is 30 years subject to correct installation and maintenance carried out directly in line with our installation and O&M information.

Life expectancy will be reduced if the doorsets are misused, located in very high traffic areas such as cross corridors without any means of hold open support or damaged through severe collision and impact.

Failure to carry out routine maintenance to items such as hardware and intumescent seals will also reduce the product life expectancy.