A hotel joinery package can look exactly like furniture and still be rejected if the reaction-to-fire class on the drawing is not the class on the tin. The opposite is also true: an FR film that meets the class but looks like a fire-rated wall coating will not survive a brand review.
Put the classification in writing
Do not order “fire retardant lacquer” as a product type. Order the class the specifier named, the substrate (MDF, veneered board, solid timber), clear or pigmented, and the sheen.
Irish commercial interiors typically live inside a finish schedule and a fire strategy. The architect, the fire consultant and the joiner are not always in the same meeting. If the drawing says one thing and the purchase order says another, the sprayed doors are already wrong.
We stock and specify fire retardant coatings for shopfitting, schools and public buildings. We will not put an FR label on a delivery without the certification that belongs to that system and batch. If the paperwork is not current, we will say so before you spray.
Clear film versus pigmented film
Clear FR is for timber that has to remain timber: oak reception desks, walnut panelling, stained joinery that still needs a class. Pigmented FR is for colour-critical packages — retail, hospitality, education — where the brand palette cannot be abandoned because the room is a protected corridor.
Colour matching is available on FR bases so a RAL or a physical sample can live on a classified system. Match a spray-out on the actual board, at the specified sheen, and keep that panel with the job file.
What the fire officer will ask for later
Not the brand story. The product identification, the batch, and the classification document that applies to the system as sprayed — coats, loading, substrate. If you thinned outside the data sheet or swapped the topcoat for a non-FR clear “because it was glossier”, you no longer have that system.
Store leftover labelled tins until snagging is signed off. A two-litre top-up six weeks later should come from the same system, not a near-enough matt from the rack.
Programme the material like the rest of the fit-out
FR and unusual sheens should not be ordered the afternoon before spraying. See planning paint so you do not run out. Next day from Tullamore still needs the right product to be in the building, not a substitute.
What to send Lacquerite
Email or call with:
- The classification on the drawing
- Clear or pigmented
- Sheen
- Substrate and end use (school, retail, healthcare)
- Colour reference or a sample
- When you need it on the gun
We will confirm stock, lead time and the documents that travel with the order. If we cannot support that class on that substrate, you will hear it from the counter, not from a failed inspection.