Fire door inspection in Uxbridge
Every door gauged, photographed and written up. Send a postcode and a rough door count and we price it the same day.
Get a priceThe hinge in the photo has two kinds of screw in it. The door still swung and it still latched. Nobody would have noticed. Whoever fitted it had run out of the right screws, or could not be bothered to fetch more.
Doors fail like that. Small, ordinary and unnoticed. We inspect fire doors in Uxbridge and nearby and write down what is on each one. Send a postcode and a rough number of doors and we will price it the same day.
Who calls us
Landlords of shared houses. Freeholders of small blocks. Managing agents with a fire risk assessment that says "doors to be checked" and nobody on the books to do it.
Employers too. An office with a stair door that has been wedged open since the summer. A school with corridor doors that get hit by trolleys.
Uxbridge has flats over the shops along the High Street and newer blocks around the centre. Brunel University is on the edge of the town, so there are student lets and shared houses close by. Each of those has its own kind of door problem, and we have pages for them below.
On the day
We go door by door with a gap scale, a torch and a camera. The scale stands on the carpet under the door for the bottom gap, as in the second photo. At the sides and head we want about 2 to 4mm.
Hinges, closer, seals, glass and label all get looked at, and so does the leaf itself. Every door gets a number, and its readings and photos go in the report under that number.
You see one thing quickly. Doors on the same corridor are rarely in the same state. One has dropped, the next has had its closer taken off, and the one after has been painted over the strips.
What you get
A report with a row for every door. The readings, a photo and a note of what is wrong, with how urgent it is.
A closer that needs adjusting is not written up like a door with a crushed core, so you can see where the money has to go.
Your fire risk assessor, managing agent or insurer can read it without ringing us. If repairs are needed, our own crew can price them from the same report. You can take it to your own carpenter instead.
The rules, briefly
The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 puts a duty on whoever is responsible for a building. Fire doors have to be kept in working order.
Residential buildings over 11 metres have extra checks under the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022. Communal doors every three months. Flat entrance doors every 12 months, as far as you can get in.
Uxbridge is in the London Borough of Hillingdon, so London Fire Brigade is the fire and rescue authority. Denham and Iver are across the border in Buckinghamshire, which has its own service.
Cost
It comes down to how many doors there are and how easy they are to reach. A small building starts from around £250 plus VAT.
Twenty flats where each resident needs a time slot take more of our time than a school in the holidays.
We come from Luton and have no office in Uxbridge. Visits in the area go together where we can.
Questions we get asked
Is this the same as a fire risk assessment?
No. The assessment looks at the building as a whole. We look at each door closely. One does not replace the other.
Do you need every door open?
Yes, we cannot check a door we cannot get to. For flats, someone has to let us in or leave a key with the agent.
Can you do just the communal doors?
Yes. Tell us which ones when you ask for the price.
What we inspect
Where we go
Uxbridge and the places around it, in Hillingdon and across the border in Buckinghamshire. We come from Luton and put visits in the same area together.
Send the postcode and a rough number of doors. A price comes back the same day.
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