Fire door repairs in Letchworth
Offices, units and shared buildings in the first garden city.
Get a priceLetchworth, the first garden city, was laid out from 1903 with room set aside for work as well as homes. That's why most of the doors we'd expect to mend here belong to offices, units and shared buildings, with fewer on tower blocks.
Offices and units
The closer on the door between a corridor and an open office takes a hammering, because everybody walks through it all day. It's usually the first thing to give up.
Floors cause trouble too. Somebody lays thicker carpet tiles and the door starts catching. Or the old floor comes up, and the gap at the bottom grows an inch.
Then there's the wedge. One under a door chews up the bottom seal and tells everyone the door is meant to stay open.
The duty
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 the person who runs or controls the premises has to look after escape routes, and the doors on them. Your fire risk assessment, which is a separate service, may list faults. We do the door work that comes out of it.
Shared buildings
Two tenants and a landlord on one landing makes for a long email chain about who pays for the door. Whoever owns the door has to agree before we touch it. Send us the report and tell us who signs it off.
Getting here
Up the A1(M) from Luton, a day on site. Seals, closers and hinges ride in the van, so most doors are done in one go. North Herts is the council area and Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue covers it.
Questions we get asked
Can you come out of hours?
Often. Tell us when the place is quiet.
Can you repair a door I don't own?
Only with the owner's agreement.
Send the list and the postcode. We will come back with a fixed price for each door.
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