Hatfield has the University of Hertfordshire, and where there's a university there are shared student houses. It was also one of the post-war new towns, so plenty of its buildings are the same age.
Shared houses
Once a house is let to several unrelated people it becomes an HMO, a house in multiple occupation, and the fire safety rules get stricter than for a family home. Which doors must be fire doors depends on the house and your council. Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council is the place to ask. A licence, if you have one, may spell it out, and so will your fire risk assessment. Where they're required, the usual set is a fire door on each bedroom with a closer and seals.
Between lets
Students go home in summer and new ones arrive in autumn. For a few days the house is empty and nobody is in the way, and that's when we like to work. Give us the dates and the number of doors and we'll say whether it fits.
What students do to doors
Closers get taken off because they're loud. Doors get wedged open with a shoe. Posters go up over the label with sticky tack. Nobody tells new tenants the closer matters, so a line in the tenancy pack helps. We can say what to put in it.
Plenty of older houses still have panelled internal doors. Panels void the fire rating, so we don't repair them into fire doors. A plain certified doorset is the advice.
We drive over from Luton and book your doors into a full day. Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service covers the town.
Questions we get asked
Can the work be done in a week?
For a handful of doors, often. Tell us the number and the postcode.
Do you repair doors in a licensed HMO?
Yes. Send the licence conditions with the report if you can.
Send the list and the postcode. We will come back with a fixed price for each door.
Get a price