Fire Door Safety Week runs 22–26 September – a good prompt to properly check the door most people on your site walk past without a second thought. Fire doors rarely fail overnight; closers weaken, seals perish, hinges sag and gaps widen until an inspection flags it, or worse, a fire does. Here's what we check on every site visit, why a door that looks fine may not do its job, and how to catch problems early before they become a safety, compliance or insurance issue.

Early-Term Snagging: The Small Site Issues Worth Catching Now

A solar eclipse, 64 years and a reminder that we're only custodians for a while. Today, members of the Vital team had the opportunity to watch the partial solar eclipse from Carnewas on the north Cornwall coast. It was an incredible sight. But while watching the Moon slowly move across the Sun, something else struck us. The last total solar eclipse visible from mainland Britain was 27 years ago. The next will be in 2090 - 64 years from now. And that raises an interesting ques