Fire door inspection in Cookham
A small place, so the jobs are small buildings. They still count.
Get a priceThere are no tower blocks in Cookham.
Most of it is houses, and if you live in an ordinary family home this page is not for you.
The buildings we are talking about are the ones in between. Houses split into flats. Pubs with rooms upstairs. Shops with a flat over the top. Care settings. A converted barn with a couple of units.
These tend to be the ones nobody has looked at, because they do not feel like the kind of building that has rules.
When it applies
As soon as a building has shared parts, or is a place of work, the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 applies. There has to be a responsible person.
For a house split into two flats, that may well be you, even if you only own it as an investment.
The first thing you need is a fire risk assessment, and that is a separate job from what we do. If it says something about the doors, we can then check them.
If you are not sure what you have, send us a photo of the door and we will tell you.
What we find in small conversions
The doors were often changed when the building was split, and it can be hard to find out what went in.
Sometimes it is a proper fire door with a label on the edge. Sometimes it is a heavy door someone believed was good enough.
Closers tend to be cheap and badly set. Seals are often missing altogether, because whoever fitted the door did not know they were needed.
In old cottages the frames are rarely square, so the gaps are a problem from day one. Getting gaps down to between 2 and 4mm in a wonky frame needs a carpenter who knows what they are doing.
Pubs and places with rooms
Upstairs rooms in a pub are a place where people sleep over a kitchen. That is a combination that gets a lot of attention.
We check the doors between the kitchen, the stairs and the rooms, and whether they close by themselves.
We can come in before you open.
A note on flooding
Cookham sits right by the Thames and parts of it flood. Water does a door no favours. If a building has been flooded, we look more closely at the bottom of the door and the frame, because timber that has been wet can swell, split or rot.
Doors that stick after a flood often get planed down. That can open up a gap you do not want.
Getting to you
Cookham is in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service covers it.
We come from Luton, and a small job here usually goes in with others around Maidenhead on the same day. That keeps the price sensible.
Send us the address and the number of doors.
Questions we get asked
It is just my own house. Do I need this?
No. A single family home does not come under these rules.
Is one door worth you coming out for?
It can be if we are nearby. Send us the details and we will be honest about it.
Tell us how many doors you have and we will send you a price the same day.
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