Fire door repairs in Slough
Send us your inspection report or a few photos. You get a fixed price per door the same day.
Get a priceSomebody has walked your building and written a list of what is wrong with the doors.
Now it needs doing.
That list is what we work from. Our carpenters go door by door, fix what failed and photograph it before and after. You end up with a completion report your fire risk assessor can read in ten minutes.
Most failed doors do not need replacing. On a run of two secondary schools and an almshouse in Luton we had 147 doors to deal with. 140 were repaired. Only seven came out.
Things we put right most weeks
A closer that gives up an inch from the frame. That is the most common one by far, and the most important, because a door that does not shut is just a piece of timber in a hole.
Gaps. We bring them back to around 3mm down the sides and across the top. Tight at the head and 7mm by the floor? Hinges will not cure that. The frame has moved. Architraves come off, the frame gets packed and fixed again, fire foam goes in behind it and the door is rehung. That takes half a day and it is worth knowing before you get a cheap quote.
Holes where someone has taken off an old lock. Hinges with screws missing or a knuckle worn oval. Seals that a decorator went over with gloss in about 2014.
Split edges, usually at the latch side, where the door has been forced or kicked. We let in new hardwood lipping along the damaged edge.
If a door has been cut down too far, or the core is broken, we will tell you it is finished and price a new one. Plain certified doorset. Those panelled period-style doors look lovely, but cutting mouldings into a fire door can void its rating.
How to get a price
Email us the report if you have one.
No report? Photos work. Both sides of the door, the hinges, the closer, the gap at the bottom and the edge where the seal runs.
You get a price per door, and it is fixed. Parts we do not use come off. Everything else stays the same whatever we find on the day.
Most repairs come to somewhere between £150 and £900 a door plus VAT. A lot depends on what failed and how many doors we can do in one trip.
What you are left with
Every part we fit carries third-party certification and goes on in line with BS 8214.
You get before and after photos of each door, a line saying what we did to it, and the product details. Where a third-party certificate is required, the work is carried out by our BM TRADA-certificated contractors.
Keep all of that in your fire safety file. It is the first thing anyone asks to see.
Slough in particular
We do not have a yard in Slough. We drive over from Luton, around 50 minutes when the M25 behaves.
Three kinds of building suit this work. Offices that became flats, where the doors tend to have gone in fast. Shared houses, where bedroom doors take a beating. And industrial units, where a door between the warehouse and the office gets hit by things with forks on them.
Slough Borough Council ran a licensing scheme for smaller shared houses from 2019 to 2024, and in 2026 it consulted on bringing licensing back across every ward. If you have a house with a list of door faults from a licensing visit, send it over.
Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service enforces the fire safety rules in the town. A letter from them will say what they want done, so please send that as well.
Questions we get asked
How quickly can you start?
We price the same day. Start dates depend on parts and on what the crew already has booked, so tell us if there is a deadline on your notice.
Do you need to visit first?
Usually not. Your report or decent photos will do for most doors.
We got the report from somebody else. Is that a problem?
No. We work from other people's reports all the time. If you have not had an inspection yet, get one first, because a fire risk assessment is a different job and will not list each door in detail.
What we repair
Send it over with the postcode and we will price it per door the same day.
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