USER GUIDES & PUBLICATIONS

End-User Guides

These publications are provided to help end-users in key sectors get more from their architectural ironmongery.

As well as covering maintenance recommendations and care of finishes for relevant materials, they include useful checklists to help the user with critical products such as fire doors, escape doors and automatic doors.

As well as making these guides available directly to end-users on this page, the GAI encourages specifiers, installers and all those involved in the architectural ironmongery supply chain to make the guides available to end-users as part of their customer service processes.

End User Guide - Commercial

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End User Guide - Education

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End User Guide - Residential

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End User Guide - Healthcare

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Glossary of Architectural Hardware Terms

This guide provides an overview of the key terms most commonly found in the specification, installation and use of architectural ironmongery / hardware.

Glossary of Terms

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Cylinder Installation Guide

A new installation guide for lock cylinders from the Guild of Architectural Ironmongers, the Door & Hardware Federation, the Glass and Glazing Federation and the Master Locksmiths Association is now available. 

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Cylinder Installation Guide

 

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Door Closer Safety Checklist

This document provides advice for building owners and managers on the measures they should take relating to self-closing fire doors to ensure their buildings are safe.

Door closer safety check list

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Users of this list should note that it is designed to help ensure that buildings comply with a regulatory framework which includes taking such general fire precautions to ensure the safety of persons within the building. These are general recommendations and not exhaustive. Door closing devices are only one part of the fire precautions within a building and what is suitable and sufficient for one premises will not necessarily be sufficient for another.