Certified fire retardant lacquer that still looks like furniture.

Fit-out joinery is judged on fire performance as quickly as it is judged on sheen. A reception desk in a hotel, a classroom store, a retail wall — if the fire strategy names a reaction-to-fire class, the lacquer on that timber has to be the system that earned it, not a furniture clear with an FR story attached.

Lacquerite supplies fire retardant coatings to Irish shopfitters, joiners and kitchen plants who need a clear or pigmented film that still looks like a specified finish. We are the people who will ask for the class, the substrate and the sheen before we pick a tin.

Who specifies fire retardant coatings

You are in the right place if you are spraying or buying joinery for:

• Retail and hospitality fit-out programmes with a named finish schedule
• Schools, healthcare and other public buildings
• Circulation spaces and rooms where the architect or fire consultant has locked a class
• Furniture that has to sit in those rooms without looking like a fire-rated wall coating

If the job is a private kitchen with no fire strategy, you probably want a standard acid-cured, pre-catalysed or polyurethane stack — not FR. We will say that plainly.

Work to the classification on the drawing

Do not order “fire retardant lacquer” as a generic product. Order the class written on the specification, then the build that supports it: coats, loading, substrate. Irish commercial interiors usually live inside a finish schedule and a fire strategy. Those two documents must agree before anyone catalyses a pot.

We will not sell an FR label without the certification that belongs to that system and batch. If the document is out of date, or the substrate on your job is not the substrate on the test, you will hear it from the counter before the van leaves Tullamore.

What we need in one email

• The classification (as printed on the drawing or fire report)
• Substrate — MDF, veneered board, solid timber, existing film
• End use — school, retail, healthcare, hotel back of house
• When it has to be on the gun

Clear film or pigmented film

Colour, sheen and the sample that travels

Colour matching is available on FR bases. Match on the actual board, at the specified sheen, with the system you will spray — not a decorative emulsion on a fan deck. Keep that spray-out in the job file. The snagging meeting will use it.

Sheen is part of the spec, not a booth preference. If the schedule says matt, do not send 30% because it “looked richer in the lights”. Read choosing sheen before the sample is signed.

How a live FR order runs

1. Specify Class, clear or pigmented, sheen, substrate, colour reference or physical sample.
2. Confirm Sales check stock, tint time and the current certificate for that system.
3. Sample Where colour is critical, a spray-out before the run. Check it dry, in the light the client will use.
4. Dispatch Next day nationwide when the order is in before cut-off, or collection at Axis Business Park. See distribution.

FR and uncommon sheens should not be left until the afternoon before spraying. Plan the order against the cutting list.

Keep the batch with the job

A fire officer will not want a brand paragraph. They will want product identification, batch, and the classification document for the system as sprayed. If you thinned outside the data sheet, swapped in a non-FR clear for gloss, or coated a substrate that was never tested, you no longer have that system.

Store leftover labelled tins until snagging is signed. A two-litre top-up should be the same system, not a near-enough matt from the rack. Technical support from Novalk and Sirca sits behind the counter when a specifier needs product data — we still will not invent a class.