Comprehensive safety inspections, detailed compliance reporting, and certified door maintenance.
Fire doors are a critical life-safety feature in any building, but they only save lives if they function perfectly. Fix-A-Lot provides a complete service across County Durham: thorough technical inspections to verify compliance, followed by professional maintenance to fix gaps, hardware, and seals.
Professional Fire Door Inspections
đź“‹ Compliance Logging: We conduct detailed, multi-point inspections to ensure your property remains compliant, legal, and safe for occupants.
- Multi-Point Inspection: Auditing the structural integrity of the door leaf, frame, and any vision or glazing panels.
- Gap & Clearance Analysis: Measuring the top, side, and threshold clearances to ensure they meet strict legal smoke and fire boundaries.
- Hardware Verifications: Testing fire-rated hinges, locks, handles, and panic hardware for correct certification stamps.
- Closer & Latching Audits: Verifying that automatic overhead door closers smoothly shut the door firmly into the latch from any angle.
- The Inspection Report: Receive an independent, documented inspection register for your mandatory property safety logbooks.
(ABBE Level 3 Fire Door Inspector & TIFSM)
Fire Door Maintenance & Repairs
🛠️ Remediation & Upgrades: If a door fails its inspection, we have the physical carpentry and maintenance skills to repair it back to safety standards.
- Intumescent Strips & Seals: Replacing damaged, painted-over, or missing intumescent smoke and fire seals around frames.
- Hinge & Hardware Upgrades: Replacing worn hinges or upgrading broken latches with certified, fire-rated hardware.
- Door Adjustments & Re-Hanging: Trimming or adjusting doors that stick, drag on carpet, or fail to self-close correctly.
- Self-Closer Fitting & Tuning: Installing, replacing, or adjusting the tension on automatic door closers to ensure positive latching.
(Hydro-X City & Guilds Accredited Fire Door Maintainer)
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