Custom Fire Rated Doors by Daiek: Safety by Design

To most, fire rated means flush mineral core doors that can not meet many of the custom design requirements for today’s projects.

Daiek creates truly custom fire-rated doors incorporating BASF fire cores that can meet custom design requirements, look great, work with genuine reliability, and come with fire rated fabrication that certify 20- to 90-minute fire ratings.

We have the experience and the capacity to produce fire-rated doors of all sizes, delivered to your jobsite anywhere in the world.

Fire-rated core materials are part of the engineered construction

The door below is undergoing testing at the lab. It is mounted in a fireproof fixture that can produce a 2500 degree Fahrenheit fire behind it. The outside skin temperature is recorded and the door is tested to the time required. At this point in the test – about 30 minutes – you can see the bright fire under the door and in the chimney above the door. There is a bit of soot collecting at the top of the door and some smoke appearing along the hinge side of the door.

Below: the test has ended, and the door has been pivoted away from the fire box and they are preparing to hit the door with a fire hose stream. The inner skins are consumed but the outer skins were not breached, so this is a successful test of a 45-minute-fire-rated door and jamb assembly.

The door construction can now be certified and future doors of this type will carry a fire-rated certification for the time tested.

Doors and jambs can be made for custom opening sizes, certified and labeled as meeting fire-safe requirements.

Oversized Door & Window assemblies are inspected and can be certified on site.

Custom glass, custom jamb assemblies, custom hardware machining, custom fabrication – any difficult production requirements – can now be accomplished with fire-rated doors and delivered direct to you or to your jobsite. We ship anywhere.

Recent fire-rated door projects include a pair of oversize sketch face veneer doors for a worship space in Florida; large 4′ x 10′ entry doors for a Texas convention center; commercial stile and rail panel doors of Qtd Sapele for a Temple project in Idaho; Custom residential fabrication with glass for a project in Texas. In every case, extraordinary doors were crafted that met aesthetic requirements and garnered a fire-ratings approval.

Below: the fire-rated Sapele door was crafted in stain- and paint-grade.

Top 3 reasons to choose Daiek:

• Always-custom doors.
• Engineered fabrications.
• Architectural detailing to match design parameters.

Partner with Daiek. We work directly for you, behind the scenes, allowing you to keep your customer relationship intact. We can provide CAD shop drawings and mock ups for submittal to you. We can visit the jobsite and take required field dimensions. Like you, we are AWI members and adhere to the Architectural Woodwork Standards.

In business for over 35 years, we work at the quality level you expect and no job is too large for us. No destination too far to ship. Because of our central US location, freight is more economical than you think. Carefully packed, the job arrives on-site finished to your specs and ready to install.