Fire door repairs in Reading
Failed inspection? Send the report over and we will price the faults one door at a time.
Get a priceSo your fire door inspection came back with a long list.
Most people panic at that point and assume every door has to come out. Usually they don't.
A door that failed because of a 6mm gap, a dead closer and a missing hinge screw can often be back in service by the afternoon. We have put that to the test. On one programme across two Luton secondary schools and an almshouse, 140 of the 147 doors were repaired where they hung.
Replacement is what is left when repair stops making sense, and we will tell you when that is.
Send us the report, or a few photos if there isn't one yet. You get a fixed price per door and a date.
The faults we fix most
Seals come first by a long way. They get painted, kicked off, or pulled out by somebody who thought they were draught strip.
Closers next. A closer costs far less than a fire does, yet we keep finding ones with an arm hanging off, or adjusted so gently the door stops an inch short of the latch.
After that it is gaps and hinges, which tend to go together. Once a hinge drops, the door sags, the head gap opens up and the bottom edge starts catching the floor.
Then glazing beads and cracked vision panels. Then signs, which are the cheapest line on any report.
Who calls us in Reading
Landlords with shared houses near the university. Managing agents looking after blocks close to the station. Hotel operators, and we know how those buildings work, having surveyed 129 fire doors in a Reading hotel.
Schools ring us for holiday work because a carpenter on a corridor in term time is nobody's idea of fun.
The owner of a single flat is welcome too, but tell us up front, because a one-door visit from Luton has to be priced as a visit.
What happens after you get in touch
We read the report and go through the photos.
If anything is unclear, we ask you or come out to look. Some faults can't be priced from a picture, an uneven gap being the classic one. The frame might only need a small tweak, or it might have to come off and be packed and fixed again, and those are very different jobs.
You then get a list, door by door, saying what we will do to each.
Our carpenters arrive with the seals, closers and hinges already on the van. When a door is finished we photograph it, so the person who failed it can see what changed.
Repairs are carried out by our own crew. Work that has to be done under a third-party scheme goes through our BM TRADA-certificated contractors.
A rough idea of price
Most repairs fall somewhere between £150 and £900 a door plus VAT.
The bottom of that range is a set of seals and a closer adjustment. The top is frame work, or a door that needs new edges as well.
Numbers of doors and ease of access move it around, so a hotel floor we can empty costs less per door than flats spread over six storeys with residents out at work.
Your quote is a fixed price. Parts we end up not using come off the bill.
Questions we get asked
Do I need an inspection before you repair anything?
It helps, because then there is an agreed list to work from. If you have no report, we can inspect first. That is a separate job with its own price.
Can you repair a door with panels in it?
We would rather not spend your money on that. A panelled door voids the rating, so the sensible fix is a plain certified doorset.
Is the repair the same as a fire risk assessment action?
Your fire risk assessment may well be what asked for the repair, but the two are separate services. We do door work. The assessor looks at the whole building.
What we repair
Where we go
These are the places around Reading our carpenters travel to. We come from Luton, so we book the work into full days on site.
Send it to us with the postcode and we will price it door by door.
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