Fire Door Services in Bournemouth
Survey, repair, installation and ongoing compliance, delivered by a single team so findings and fixes never drift apart.
Fire Door Inspections in Bournemouth
An inspection earns its keep when it produces a list somebody can act on. We work through the assembly element by element and record the state of each one: leaf condition and thickness, frame fixings and packing, the gap on all four sides, intumescent and smoke seals, hinge specification and count, closer performance, latch engagement, glazing and beading, plus signage and any alterations made since installation.
The building types we see most in Bournemouth each fail in their own way. Hotel bedroom doors suffer from decades of redecoration burying the seals under paint. Licensed shared houses around Winton and Charminster tend to have hardware swapped for whatever was to hand. Blocks in Boscombe and Springbourne carved out of Victorian villas often have doors hung in openings that were never squared.
Findings come back graded by severity with photographic evidence, so you can separate what has to be dealt with this week from what belongs in next year's budget.
Ask about this serviceCovered as standard
- Element-by-element assembly survey
- Gap, seal and closer measurement
- Hinge and ironmongery specification check
- Photographic defect evidence
- Severity grading and remedial order
- Reporting formatted for audit and licensing
Fire Door Repairs in Bournemouth
Failing an inspection is not the same as being finished. Most doors on a defect list are perfectly recoverable once somebody corrects the particular thing that moved them away from their tested condition, and stripping out sound door sets carries a cost in money, in downtime and in goodwill that is rarely justified.
The work itself is usually unglamorous: cutting out seals that have been painted solid and fitting fresh ones, easing or packing an opening until the margins come back inside tolerance, re-hanging on hinges of the correct pattern and number, fitting a closer that actually drives the latch home, and removing hardware that was never part of the tested set.
Some doors genuinely cannot be saved. A leaf trimmed beyond its permitted margin, timber that has taken in water, or a frame unsuitable for the opening are all points at which repair stops being honest. We say so when we reach one.
Ask about this serviceCovered as standard
- Seal renewal, including paint-blocked seals
- Gap correction and leaf realignment
- Closer replacement and adjustment
- Correctly specified hinges and ironmongery
- Leaf and frame repair where rating allows
- Completion record for each door
Fire Door Installations in Bournemouth
A certified door set stops being certified the moment it is installed differently from the way it was tested. Fixing centres, packing behind the frame, the gap it is hung to, and the compatibility of every piece of hardware are all part of what the certificate covers. Fit it loosely and you have installed a heavy door, not fire protection.
We specify to the opening rather than to a catalogue: FD30 or FD60 as the situation demands, with the vision panels, glazing, signage and hardware the building's escape strategy actually requires. Installation follows the manufacturer's instructions precisely, because deviation is what invalidates the certification when someone later checks.
That work takes us right across the town: stairway and dwelling doors in the managed blocks of Southbourne and Pokesdown, bedroom and corridor sets in the cliff-top hotels, licensed shared houses throughout Winton, and offices and teaching space around Lansdowne and the Triangle.
Ask about this serviceCovered as standard
- FD30 and FD60 certified door sets
- Specification matched to the opening
- Fitted exactly as the certificate requires
- Compatible tested ironmongery throughout
- Vision panels, glazing and signage
- Handover pack on completion
Fire Door Compliance Support in Bournemouth
Compliance is a cycle, not an event. The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 puts a continuing duty on the responsible person, and the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 added defined checking intervals for many residential blocks on top of that.
For agents, hotel groups, care providers and portfolio landlords across Bournemouth we put a rhythm in place: a baseline survey that establishes where everything currently stands, defects tackled worst-first until the list is clear, and inspections booked far enough ahead that the evidence never expires between one assessment and the next.
Ask about this serviceCovered as standard
- Portfolio-wide baseline surveys
- Remedial programmes in priority order
- Recurring inspection scheduling
- Signing off actions raised by your assessor
- Consistent records across every site
Unsure which of these you need?
Describe the building and the problem. We will tell you whether it is a survey, a repair or a replacement job before anyone commits.
Practical questions about the work
Both. Plenty of our Bournemouth work starts with one flat entrance door a leaseholder has been told to sort out, and plenty starts with a hotel wanting every bedroom surveyed before the season.
The approach scales either way. Small jobs get the same written record as large ones, because that record is usually the reason the work was needed.
By sequencing the work so no escape route is ever compromised, and by agreeing access windows before we start rather than discovering them on the day.
In practice that means hotel bedroom work planned around occupancy, communal door work in blocks staged so residents always have a usable route out, and student housing timed around term dates wherever possible.
Yes, and it is one of the more common reasons people get in touch. Send the assessment through and we will survey against the specific actions raised in it.
Reporting is then written to map back onto those actions one by one, which makes signing them off considerably less painful than reconciling two documents that describe the same doors in different language.
It depends entirely on scope, and anyone quoting a firm figure before seeing the doors is guessing. A survey of a handful of doors sits at a completely different scale to a portfolio baseline or a full replacement programme.
What we will do is give you a realistic picture once we know the building, the door count and the condition, and flag anywhere the cheaper route is the sensible one.
Get a price for fire door work in Bournemouth
Building type, an approximate door count, and whatever triggered the enquiry. Those three things are normally enough for us to sketch out what happens next and roughly when.
- No obligation attached to an enquiry
- Advice aimed at the cheapest compliant route
- Documentation supplied on completion
Ask for a price
Give us the outline of what you are dealing with in Bournemouth and we will reply with a straight view on it.