Fire door inspection in Maidenhead
Every door measured, photographed and written up. Tell us how many you have and we will send a price the same day.
Get a priceMost fire doors we look at have something wrong with them.
Usually it is small. A closer that does not pull the door all the way shut. A smoke seal painted over ten years ago. A gap down the side you could get your finger into.
Small things like that are what stops a door doing its job when there is smoke in the corridor.
We inspect fire doors in Maidenhead and the towns around it. Blocks of flats, HMOs, care homes, schools, offices. If you are the person responsible for the building, that is who we work for.
Send us the address and roughly how many doors you have. We will come back to you with a price the same day.
What we check on every door
We go through each door one at a time. We do not pick a few and guess the rest.
We measure the gaps at the top and down both sides. They should sit between 2 and 4mm. We check the gap at the bottom too, because that is the one people forget.
Then the door itself. Any damage, any holes where old locks were, any repairs that were done with filler and hope.
We look for the certification label or plug. A lot of older doors do not have one, and we will tell you if that matters for yours.
Hinges next. There should usually be at least three, the right type, with all the screws in.
We open the door and let go. The closer has to bring it back onto the latch without a push. If it slams or stops short, it goes in the report.
Intumescent strips and smoke seals, all the way round, not damaged and not painted. Glazing, if there is any. Letterboxes on flat doors. The signs.
Every door gets photographed.
What you get afterwards
A written report with the photos, what is wrong with each door, and how urgent it is.
Nothing vague. If a door has failed you will know why. If it needs one new closer and nothing else, we will say that.
You can hand it to your fire risk assessor, your managing agent or an insurer, and it will make sense to them.
If repairs are needed we can price them from the same report. You do not have to use us for that. Plenty of people take the report to their own carpenter and that is fine.
Why it comes up so much in Maidenhead
The town has changed a lot since the Elizabeth line came in. There are new flats around the centre, and plenty of older blocks where the doors have been there for decades.
New does not mean right, by the way. We see doors in new buildings where the frame was fitted badly or a trade has drilled through it to run a cable.
Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service covers Maidenhead, and fire doors are on their list when they audit a block of flats.
If your building has common parts and is over 11 metres, the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 say the communal doors need checking every three months, and you need to try to check flat entrance doors every year. You also have to keep a record.
We cover the town centre, Boyn Hill, Furze Platt, Cox Green and Pinkneys Green. We come over from Luton, so it is about an hour for us, and we book a few jobs in the area on the same day where we can.
How much it costs
It depends how many doors there are and how easy it is to get to them. A school in the holidays is quick. Forty flats where we need to catch each resident at home is not.
As a rough guide, a small building starts from around £250 plus VAT.
Tell us what you have and we will give you a proper figure.
Questions we get asked
Do I need a fire door inspection?
If you are responsible for a block of flats, an HMO, a workplace or anywhere people sleep, the doors have to be kept in working order. An inspection is how you find out if they are.
Is this the same as a fire risk assessment?
No. They are two different jobs. A fire risk assessment looks at the whole building. A door inspection looks at each door in detail. One does not cover the other.
How long does it take?
A small block is usually a morning. Bigger buildings depend on how many doors we can get to.
What we inspect
Tell us how many doors you have and we will send you a price the same day.
Get a price