Fire door repairs in Newport Pagnell
Older buildings with newer fire doors fitted into them.
Get a priceNewport Pagnell is one of the old towns inside the Milton Keynes boundary. It was a market town long before the new city was planned around it.
Some of the car-making history is still part of how people talk about the place. Aston Martin built cars on Tickford Street until 2007.
What older stock does to a door
Turn an old building into flats and the new fire doors go into old walls and old frames. The walls are not square. The frames were packed to fit them, and a few years later the door has moved.
That is the call we get most from towns like this. The door was right when it went in. The building has shifted since.
First we look at the frame. Is it fixed through the packers into something solid? Has the seal behind the architrave cracked? Changing a hinge will not hold a door that is hanging from a loose frame.
Small residential settings
Smaller care and supported housing sits in ordinary houses with ordinary doors. We have inspected 16 doors across homecare houses in Hemel Hempstead and Kings Langley, so we know how a converted house runs on its doors.
Houses like these usually have a short list. A closer, a seal or two, a missing sign. We can often clear it in a day.
Who to send the report to
We hear from managing agents with converted blocks, and from landlords with a few flats above a shop or a former works. Their last inspection usually flagged the same three or four doors.
Say if residents are in during the day, because it changes the order we do the doors in.
Getting here
Junction 14 of the M1 is at Newport Pagnell, so the van comes off the motorway close to the work. The fire service is Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service and the council is Milton Keynes City Council.
Questions we get asked
The frame is loose. Can you fix that and the door together?
Yes. We would re-fix and pack the frame, then set the door. It is priced as frame work.
Do small houses need fire doors repaired the same way?
The faults are the same as in a block of flats. A house has fewer doors, so the bill is smaller.
Send the list with the postcode. We will come back with a price for each door.
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