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Best Practice Guides

The FIS Best Practice Guides are an essential guide to selection, planning and installation in these specialist areas. They are designed to give an overview and support understanding for all involved in the process.

Installation of
Suspended Ceilings

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Installation of
Drylining

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Selection and installation of Top Fixings for Suspended Ceilings

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Maintenance and access into
Suspended Ceilings

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Installation of
Partitioning

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Servicing Operable Walls

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Firestopping of Service Penetrations

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Through-wall infill steel framed systems

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Recommendations for the Safe Ingress of Plasterboard

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Repair of Historic Ceilings

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Walls as a System

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Did you know?

FIS maintains a technical team which work with the industry to set standards and to support members, specifiers and clients.

These publications are available to download for FIS Members, if you a non member, please email your details to info@thefis.org with details of your business and reason for requesting the document and we will be in touch.  

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