Fire door repairs in Milton Keynes
A list of failed doors goes in. A price for each one comes back.
Get a priceThe inspection report for your building has come back and a lot of doors have failed.
Before you ask for new doors, look at what is actually wrong with each one. Many of the faults are small. A closer arm has come off. A seal has paint on it. A hinge is missing three of its four screws. A carpenter can repair each of those in a morning, and the door stays.
We are carpenters. We drive up the M1 from Luton, and Milton Keynes is roughly 40 minutes away. We repair fire doors where they hang, and if one cannot be saved we tell you.
What turns up on the lists
Closers that do not latch the door, seals with paint on them, gaps and hinges. Glazing and signs finish most lists. Signs cost very little, so we fit them while we are there for the rest.
What we have done before
Across two Luton secondary schools and an almshouse we repaired 140 of 147 fire doors, and only seven needed replacing.
In a block of flats in Luton we put right 34 doors.
They are the kind of building we know best. Long corridors with a lot of doors in them, and not much time to get the work done.
Who rings us here
We hear from landlords with blocks of flats, managing agents with a failed report and a deadline, care home operators, offices and schools.
Milton Keynes was designated a new town in 1967, so many of its buildings are fairly new. New does not mean right. We find missing packers and weak closers on doors only a few years old.
Own a single flat? You can still ask. Tell us early, because one door and a drive from Luton is priced as a visit.
How it works
Send the report, or a couple of photos of the door and the fault.
We read it and tell you what we would do to each door. If a fault cannot be judged from a picture, we say that and arrange a look.
You get a fixed price for each door, and a date. The parts come with us in the van. Every door is photographed when it is finished.
Our own crew does the repairs. Anything that has to go through a third-party scheme is passed to our BM TRADA / FIRAS-certificated contractors.
Roughly what it costs
Repairs are usually £150 to £900 a door plus VAT.
A seal and a closer adjustment are at the low end. Frame work is at the high end.
The price depends on how many doors we can do in a day and how easy they are to reach. Parts that we order and do not use come off the bill.
Questions we get asked
Do I need an inspection report first?
It helps, because it gives us an agreed list. If you have none we can inspect first, and that is priced separately.
A fire risk assessment flagged my doors. Is that the same thing?
No. The assessment looks at the whole building. We repair the doors it points to.
Can you repair a door with panels in the leaf?
We would rather not. Once there are panels in the leaf the door no longer has its rating, so we would fit a plain certified doorset.
What we put right
Where we go
Our carpenters drive to these places from Luton, up the M1. We book the work into whole days on site.
Send the list with the postcode. We will come back with a price for each door.
Get a price