Fire door repairs in Woburn Sands
Larger older houses that now hold flats, bedsits or a handful of residents.
Get a priceWoburn Sands lies at the south-east corner of the Milton Keynes area, close to the Bedfordshire border.
A big old house is a common sight in a town like this. Where one has been divided into flats, or turned into a small care home, it needs a fire door at every flat entrance and across the stairs.
Houses turned into flats
The conversion may be forty years old or four. Either way the doors are often a mix.
Some were fitted properly as fire doors. Some are ordinary internal doors that were never tested. We can tell the difference by looking at the edge, the label and the hinges.
When a door was never a fire door, a repair will not make it one. We tell you, and we price the replacement as a plain certified doorset.
Small care homes
Care homes in converted houses have a short list on most reports. A closer that is too weak. A missing hinge screw. A door held open with a wedge, because a resident could not open it otherwise.
On those, we look for a fix that keeps the door usable. We can set the closer to the lightest it will go, inside what the door allows.
We inspected 16 doors across homecare houses in Hemel Hempstead and Kings Langley, and those jobs were all of this kind.
Floors and stairs
Old houses have stairs that wind and landings that are tight. A door on a staircase may catch on the floor, or the frame may have moved as the building settled.
We measure first, then decide whether a hinge, a packer or a frame fix is the right thing.
Practical
The fire service is Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service, and the local authority is Milton Keynes City Council. We drive from Luton, and the town is a short way from the M1.
Questions we get asked
The doors in my converted house have no labels. Are they fire doors?
Possibly not. We can look and tell you.
Can you keep the door usable for a frail resident?
We set the closer as light as the door allows. We will not take it off.
Send the list with the postcode. We will come back with a price for each door.
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