Hotel and guest house door surveys
Bedroom doors, corridor doors and back-of-house doors, done around the people staying there.
Get a priceA hotel is a lot of near-identical doors that all get used hard. Housekeeping trolleys knock the bottom edges, guests prop doors open with a suitcase, and a few years on no two have quite the same gap.
We surveyed 129 doors at a hotel in Reading. At three or four minutes a door that's the best part of eight hours of checking, before the waiting for the lift. Before arriving we want three things: the room list by floor, a guess at which rooms are empty, and the time housekeeping stops. Corridors and empty rooms first. Occupied rooms wait until the guest is out, and the front desk always knows where we are.
What the sheet looks like (invented examples)
R214, bedroom. Closer arm disconnected. Brass number plate screwed through the face. Bottom gap 9mm, new carpet.
Corridor pair, second floor. Wedge under the left leaf. Seal on the right leaf painted over.
Linen cupboard. Hinge screws missing, two of six. No label.
Kitchen to dry store. Leaf cut for a cable, filled with foam.
Stair door, fourth floor. Closer fine. Gap 3mm all round. Label present, FD30S. No faults.
Plant room. Door propped open with a fire extinguisher.
Bar to cellar. Plank door, bolted on the outside, no seals.
Staff stair, ground. Glass panel replaced with plain glass, no mark etched in it.
Back of house is usually in worse shape than the front, because guests never see it.
Pubs with rooms and guest houses
Picture a country pub with four rooms upstairs. One stair, the kitchen directly underneath, a family asleep over the bar. Three doors matter most there: the one at the foot of the stair, the kitchen door and the door from the bar to the stair. The rest can wait their turn. A small place like that is normally done in a morning, and the report is short enough to read standing at the bar.
Keys and lifts
For a bigger hotel the key ring decides how the day goes. Master card, service lift, and one ring for the linen cupboards, risers and plant rooms with a note of which is which. Without them a survey stalls at the first locked door. We usually start on the top floor and work down, so the lift only has to carry us once and the stair doors get checked on the way.
What you get
The report lists doors by room number so your maintenance man can work down it. It's not a fire risk assessment, and a hotel needs one of those as well.
Questions we get asked
Will you work while guests are in?
We go round Do Not Disturb signs and come back later.
Do you cover every room?
If you like, or pick one floor as a trial.
Send us the postcode and a rough door count and we will come back with a price the same day.
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