Good design includes not only aesthetics and quality but good function.

We design the doorset to meet and to exceed the requirements of building regulations.

This is not just for fire resistance and smoke control but also for other aspects of performance criteria required for a flat entrance doorset – both internal and external.

We design for overrun, longevity and to improve the living environment, including having a wide range of smart styles to choose from.

At Gerda Security Products we take doorset design extremely seriously. We consider all aspects of building regulation, performance criteria and innovation to solve challenges and to improve the living environment for residents.

The built environment is not uniform and buildings vary in age from Victorian to 50 s, 60s and 70s high storey buildings. Having a range of manufacturer-owned primary fire tests and smoke control tests means there is the breadth of testing to accommodate the variations that can and do occur.

The Safer Homes doorset ranges comprises 28 successful primary fire resistance tests to BS EN 1634-1 for fire resistance, exceeding the requisite time of thirty minutes in all tests.

And 9 full scale smoke leakage tests to BS EN 1634-3, as well as further tests not having the letterplate and the threshold not being taped, so as to replicate real conditions.

Effective smoke leakage prevention through good design is key. Through our work with smoke pod demonstrations and live smoke tests in actual high rise buildings not in use, we endeavour to demonstrate this important aspect of fire safety.

For consistency in high volume quality, whilst having the flexibility of a wide range of designs and finishes, the Safer Homes Range offers the perfect solution.

Significant investment into state of the art manufacturing has enabled products to be produced in volume to exact tailored sizes and to exacting tolerances for each doorset, in accordance with extensive test evidence across all aspects of performance.

Ensuring that the product is fully compliant and straightforward to fit, these are complete finished doorsets to a high specification, supplied as pre-hung doorsets.

Attention to detail through exacting CNC processes, highly efficient frame production technology and automated spray processes, coupled with extensive quality control throughout our processes, means we deliver doorsets built to last.

Your flat is your home. A place where you not only want to feel safe, but also secure.

Which is why we invest into innovative security solutions in our doorset designs.

Our doorsets offer Secured by Design as standard. Secured by Design is the official police security initiative for designing out crime and improving the security of buildings. Gerda Security has been a founder member for over twenty years.

The Safer Homes range offers locking options, to suit opening needs, including assisted opening.

The 54mm thick doorsets offer robust resilience against repeat victimisation and improve the living environment through great insulation and acoustics.

Achieving right first time with maintenance in mind means a sound investment.

Having the right type of door closer for the doorset in its entranceway opening goes a long way to ensuring it stays there.

Through surveying teams, the in-house G-Smart survey App ensures that the right type of door closer is chosen.

All fully primary tested as part of the complete doorset, we offer 15 options of door closers for internal and external applications including:

Assisted opening with automated opening solutions

Transom & leaf mounted on external & internal fire doorsets

Free swing door closers to assist in sheltered housing & heritage applications – hard wired or wireless

Overhead concealed door closers to assist with minimising intentional misuse, quiet closure in communal areas