Fire door inspection in Windsor
Hotels, guest houses, flats and a lot of very old buildings.
Get a priceWindsor is not like most towns we work in.
A big part of it makes its living from people staying the night. Hotels, guest houses, pubs with rooms and holiday lets. Anywhere people sleep in a building they do not know, the fire doors have a harder job to do.
Guests do not know where the stairs are. They will be half asleep. The doors have to buy them that bit of time.
Older buildings need more thought
Around the castle and the town centre you have period properties and conservation areas. Old doors, odd frames and layouts that were never planned with fire in mind.
If a building is listed, you may not be able to just pull out a door and fit a new one. That is one reason we report on what is there first and do not start from "replace it".
A lot of old doors can be upgraded. Some cannot. We will tell you honestly which is which, and flag when consent may be needed so you can check with the council.
Hotels and guest houses
The things we find most in hospitality are closers set too weak so that doors do not disturb guests, and seals that have come away after years of housekeeping trolleys.
Bedroom doors with electronic locks fitted later also need looking at. Fitting a new lock means cutting into the door, and it is not always been done the right way.
We surveyed 129 fire doors at a hotel in Reading, so we know how to work round housekeeping and guests. We can go floor by floor and work with your room list.
Flats and shared houses
Further out in Clewer and Dedworth it is more homes and flats. Above-shop flats in the centre are a common one too. There is often just one staircase and a door that opens straight onto it.
Those flat doors matter a great deal, and they are often the ones nobody has checked since the conversion.
If your building has shared parts, the responsible person needs to know these doors work.
Who deals with it locally
Windsor is in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, and the Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service covers it.
If you have had a letter from them or an action on your fire risk assessment, send us what it says and we will look at the doors it mentions.
Getting here
We come from Luton, down the M25 and along the M4. It is about an hour. We group jobs around Windsor, Maidenhead and Slough where we can.
Tell us how many doors you have, and whether we can get to them easily, and we will send you a price the same day.
Questions we get asked
Do holiday lets need fire doors?
It depends on the layout and how many people stay. Holiday lets come under the fire safety rules, so a fire risk assessment is where to start.
Can you work around guests?
Yes. Give us a list of the rooms that are free and we will work from that.
Tell us how many doors you have and we will send you a price the same day.
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