Fire door repairs in St Albans
Got an inspection report with a list of failures? We price each door and put them right.
Get a priceSo the inspector has been round and your doors have failed. Now there's a list, and somebody is asking when it'll be sorted.
Don't panic and don't order a skip. Most of those doors can stay where they are. A closer gets swapped, a hinge gets its screws back, a seal somebody painted over gets cut out and replaced.
We've done it on a big scale. Across two Luton secondary schools and an almshouse we looked at 147 doors and repaired 140 of them where they hung.
Send us the report. No report yet? Send a photo of the door and one of the fault.
The usual suspects
Gaps first. The gauge in the photo above shows 2 to 4mm as fine and 6mm as a fail, and a door that's dropped on its hinges can easily end up past that.
Closers next. Missing, loose, or turned down so low that the door never reaches the latch.
Seals come after that. Painted, picked off, or the wrong size.
Then there's the odd hinge with screws missing, glazing beads that have worked loose, and signs that were never put up.
Who we work for round here
Landlords of blocks with a shared entrance. Managing agents holding a stack of flat front doors. Schools, care homes, and small offices on the upper floors of older buildings.
In Luton we repaired 34 doors in a block of flats. That's the job we like best, because the doors match. Same faults, one crew, done in a row.
One door on its own is fine too. But tell us up front, because a single door still means a trip from Luton and it's priced as a visit.
How a job runs
You send the report and any photos.
We go through it door by door and tell you what we'd do to each. If something has to be seen in person, like a gap that's opened up unevenly, we come out and look before pricing.
Our own crew does the repairs. Where a scheme certificate is needed, the work goes through our BM TRADA / FIRAS-certificated contractors.
Every finished door gets a photo, so you've got a record to hand the next inspector.
About price
Repairs usually come to £150 to £900 a door plus VAT. A closer adjustment and new seals are at the cheap end. Frame work is at the dear end.
You get a fixed price for the repair before we start.
Questions we get asked
Do I need a new inspection before repairs?
If you have a report, no. That's the list we work from. If you haven't, an inspection comes first and it's priced separately.
Can you repair a panelled door?
No. Panels void the fire rating and you can't put it back. We advise a plain certified doorset instead.
Is this the same as a fire risk assessment?
No. We repair doors. A fire risk assessment looks at the whole building and is a separate service.
What we put right
Where we go
These are the Hertfordshire towns our carpenters work in around St Albans. We come from Luton, so we group doors into full days on site.
Send it with the postcode and we will price it one door at a time.
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