Hitchin's a North Hertfordshire market town, not far from Stevenage. Above the shop fronts on a street like that you'll often find flats, with a door at street level and a narrow stair behind it.
Everybody living up there has to come down that stair, so the door at the bottom matters more than it looks.
The street door
It's the first one we check. Has it got a closer? Do the seals still exist? Is it propped open for deliveries? Shop fronts get altered over the years, doors get swapped and painted, and nobody can tell you what the original looked like.
We work from what's hanging there now. A missing strip, a closer that never latches, a gap you can see daylight through. Those are quick jobs.
Houses split into flats
Plenty of big houses were cut up into flats a long time ago, and the doors from then are often ordinary internal doors with a fire door sticker slapped on. A sticker doesn't make a fire door. If it isn't one, we'll say so and recommend a plain certified doorset, because panelled doors can't be rescued and the panels void the rating. Where a proper fire door is there and worn, we repair it.
A handful of doors
Most owners here have only a few doors, which is no trouble. Send us the postcode and the number, and we'll look for another job nearby so we can share the day. In Luton we put right 34 doors in a block of flats, and a small building gets the same crew and the same fixed price per door.
We come up from Luton, and Hitchin is close. Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service covers the town.
Questions we get asked
Can you repair the street door to a shared stair?
If it's a fire door, yes. Send a photo of the door and the frame.
Will you come for one door?
Yes. It's priced as its own visit, so a few doors together cost less each.
Send the list and the postcode. We will come back with a fixed price for each door.
Get a price