We buysteel time.
Fire protection buys the minutes between steel losing strength and a building losing its people — measured, recorded, defensible.
Steel is strong
until it is hot.
Around 550°C an unprotected member can no longer carry what it was designed to hold. A fire resistance rating is the number of minutes we keep the steel below that line.
The thickness that buys those minutes is not a guess — it is calculated per member from the rating and the section factor, and issued by the coating manufacturer as a loading schedule. We apply to that schedule and prove it afterwards.
Why builders hand us the steel.
Schedule-first
Nothing is guessed — thickness comes off the manufacturer's loading schedule, per member.
Conditions gated
Substrate temperature, humidity and dew margin logged before any coat goes on.
Measured, member by member
DFT recorded against each member — not sampled by area, not reconstructed later.
System integrity
Primer, fire and finish kept as one compatible system, never mixed across brands.
Windows held
Recoat intervals and drying windows planned into the programme, not discovered on site.
Certifier-ready
Producer statements at completion, backed by the full measurement record.
Buy the minutes back.
Move through the ratings. Illustrative only — your rating comes from the fire engineer; the thickness that delivers it comes from the manufacturer's loading schedule for your members.
60 minutes of rated protection
The coating reacts, expands and forms an insulating char layer across the section. The steel behind it stays below its limiting temperature for the rated period, so the member keeps carrying load while the building empties.
Char thickness shown is schematic, recorded against each member on the QA schedule in practice.
Four things we do to steel.
01 · THIN FILM · FRR 30–120Intumescent coatings
Reactive films that swell into an insulating char — for steel that stays visible.
02 · THICK FILM · SPRAY APPLIEDCementitious protection
High builds for concealed structure — verified by depth pin, member by member.
03 · CORROSION · SYSTEM TO SPECProtective coatings
Specified to the environment the steel lives in, compatible with the fire system.
04 · PREPARATION · PROFILE RECORDEDBlasting & prep
Where coating systems are won or lost — recorded before anything is sprayed.
A coating you can't prove is a coating that didn't happen.
Once the ceiling goes in, nobody can inspect fire protection again. What survives is the record — which member, what thickness, measured with what, calibrated when. That record is what the certifier signs against.
| MEMBER | SECTION | REQ. µm | MEAS. µm | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B2-07 | 310UB40 | — | 851 | ✓ |
| B1-12 | 250UB26 | — | 255 | ✓ |
| C3-01 | — | — | — | |
| C3-02 | — | — | — |
Measured readings above are the two visible in the site photography on this page. Remaining rows show the record format only — no project data is invented.
The paperwork that survives the ceiling.
Specimen formats only — the documents your certifier receives, shown as shapes, not project data.
How every job runs.
Documents
LOADING SCHEDULE IN
Preparation
CLASS + PROFILE SIGNED
Application
WITHIN WINDOWS
Verification
DFT PER MEMBER
Handover
PRODUCER STATEMENT
Experience
Work completed by our people before Steel Coating Solutions Limited was incorporated in August 2026 — shown as evidence of what the team has done, not as projects delivered by the company.
Systems we apply
Applied to the manufacturer's specification, with the loading schedule issued for the project's specific members.
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Send us the drawings.
We'll tell you what's missing.
Email the fire report, the structural drawings with the steel schedule, and the coatings specification. Partial is fine — we reply with what's missing rather than sitting on it.