Kent Traders — UK Hotel Supplies, Electrical Essentials, Bathroom Fittings & Fire Safety

A fire blanket is the simplest piece of kitchen fire equipment, but only if the right size is mounted where staff can reach it. Home Office guidance for small guest accommodation suggests one in self-catering kitchens, and some council HMO standards require one wherever food is cooked. This guide explains which BS EN 1869:2019 blanket fits a small or commercial kitchen, where to mount it and how to use it safely. It also covers when a blanket is not enough on its own.

Home Office guidance lets the smallest B&Bs and guest houses in England rely on bedroom torches instead of fixed escape lighting. There is a catch: they must be rechargeable torches that light automatically when the mains fails, one per bedroom with a sign. Many hospitality torches, including popular lift-to-light wall models, do not work that way. This guide explains what the guidance permits, which premises it covers, and when a building needs proper BS 5266-1 fittings instead.

A standard letterbox cut into an FD30 fire door is one of the most commonly missed compliance failures on a fire door inspection, and most landlords have no idea it's a problem until an assessor flags it. The door can pass every other check, correct leaf, correct seals, working self-closer, and still fail because of a hole cut into it years earlier during a routine refurb. This guide explains why an uncertified aperture voids the door's whole rating, what an intumescent fire-rated letter plate actually does differently, and how to check every fire door on a property before it becomes someone else's finding.