Win a fire safety kit worth over £100!

After the great success of our competition supporting gas safety week, we are excited to announce yet another chance to bag yourself some prizes! We are constantly trying to improve our web site and customer service, and as part of the constant push to make things easier, more relevant and more interesting to visitors, we’re [...]

Intumescent Pipe Collars – A Guide

We recently introduced a new range of  ASTROflame pipe collars. As we receive many questions about the use of pipe collars we feltl that a write -up about these collars might be helpful. What are pipe collars? Where plastic soil and water pipes pass through fire compartment walls and floors, fire could spread between these [...]

Carbon Monoxide Hotspot Report released

The Gas Safety Trust have published a report, identifying carbon monoxide incident hotspots. The report ‘Carbon Monoxide Hotspot Report 2011′ shows where in the UK the highest figures of carbon monoxide poisoning incidents have occurred. A shocking detail of the report reveals that during the period between July 2010 and July 2011 three times more [...]

Batteries in smoke alarm could have saved lives of father and daughter

A 33 year old man and his six year old daughter died due to a chip pan fire in a house that had a smoke alarm fitted but had no batteries in it. In April this year the bodies of Mr Andrew Lineton and Kay-Leigh, his six year old daughter, were discovered in their home [...]