Fire door inspection in Pangbourne
Pubs with rooms, village halls and flats over shops. Small jobs, done properly.
Get a priceNot every job is a block of a hundred doors.
Pangbourne is a village on the Thames, west of Reading. What it has are small buildings. A pub with four rooms upstairs. A hall where the scouts meet. A parade with flats above the shops. A care setting in a converted house.
A building like that might have eight fire doors. We still inspect all eight.
What a small job involves
Same method, fewer doors. Every door gets a reference. The gaps go in with the gauge, then the hinges, seals and closer, then the glass if there is any.
The difference is in the planning. With a small building we do not send a team for a day. We turn up, we are done by lunchtime, and you have a report by the next working day.
Pubs with rooms
The doors that matter here are the ones on the stair. A pub has a bar and a kitchen downstairs and bedrooms or a flat above. If there is a fire in the kitchen, the stair door is what stands between the flames and whoever is asleep.
Landlords who run a pub often do not know what is on the door. We look for the label, check the closer, check that the seals are intact. A lot of pub stair doors have been wedged open for years, because bar staff go up and down all night.
Village halls
A hall is used by different groups. Yoga on Monday, parish council on Tuesday, a children's party on Saturday. Nobody is in charge of the doors, because everybody is a guest.
The person who does hold the keys is the responsible person under the 2005 Order, and they do not always know it. The doors that matter are the kitchen door, the store room, the door to the stage or committee room and any door that leads to a corridor.
Flats over shops
A parade usually has a back alley with a row of flat doors, or a side door beside the shop. The stair behind it is the only way down.
The door at the foot of the stair is the one that matters. It has to hold back a fire in the shop. It also has to be easy to open from the stair side, so that nobody gets stuck.
Which fire authority
Pangbourne is in West Berkshire and Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service covers it. West Berkshire Council is the local authority.
Price
A small job is the sort where our rough starting price applies. Tell us the number of doors and the type of building, and we will confirm a price the same day.
We drive from Luton, so we group nearby jobs where we can. If you have a neighbour in Theale or Tilehurst with doors to check, mention it and we can look at doing both.
Questions we get asked
Do you do jobs with fewer than ten doors?
Yes. Small jobs are fine.
Do I need a report if I only have a few doors?
It helps. A dated report shows an inspector or insurer that you looked.
Send us the postcode and a rough door count and we will come back with a price the same day.
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