Remedial works from a fire door report
The report lists what failed. We put it right and close the list.
Get a priceOpen the report at the page for door 14.
If it says "closer failed, gap 6mm at head, two hinge screws missing", we can price that without leaving the office. If it says "door defective", we cannot, and we will ask for a photo.
What we do with the PDF
I read it with a pen. Every door gets a price, written next to its number, and the fixed total comes from adding those up.
Doors in one building cost less each than the same doors spread over three towns, because the van only makes one trip.
At a block of flats in Luton we repaired 34 doors from a list like this. At two schools and an almshouse the list ran to 147 doors and 140 were mended. The rest were replaced.
On the day
The carpenters have a printed copy and a biro. When a door is done they tick it, then photograph the fault and the fix. A frame reset eats half a day, so those doors get their own slot.
Sometimes a door turns out to be worse than the report says. We stop, take a photo and tell you the same day before going any further.
What comes back to you
A list in the same order as the report. One line per door and two photos. Hand it to whoever wrote the report and they can close each item off.
You do not need to use the same company for the report and the repairs. Most of what we are sent was written by somebody else.
When the report points at something else
A report on doors may mention a gap round a pipe in a riser or a missing cavity barrier. That is fire stopping, not a door repair, and it needs a different trade. We will tell you which lines belong to which.
Blocks with a top storey over 11 metres sit under the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022. Our post on how soon a failed door must be fixed has the dates.
Questions we get asked
Our report is a few years old. Does that matter?
Yes. A door can change a lot in a year, so we would want fresh photos of any that are more than a few months out of date.
Send it with the postcode and we will come back with a fixed price per door.
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