Damaged fire door edges and corners in Uxbridge
Doors take their beatings at the bottom corner and the latch edge.
Get a priceLook at the bottom corner of the leaf on the latch side.
That is where trolleys, mop buckets and feet end up. It is also where a door gets worn down to splintered core, like the one in the photo.
Edges we can rebuild
A fire door has hardwood lipping glued to its edges. If that lipping is split, chipped or kicked in, we cut out the bad length and let in new hardwood, then shape it to match the edge and the gap.
The latch side takes the most abuse. A forced door often splits there around the lock, and a split near a latch is one the door needs sorted before it is trusted again.
Corners
Bottom corners get chewed by wheels and wet floors. If the damage stops at the lipping we can fit a new piece. A little protective kick plate on the leaf helps stop it from happening again.
If the core is soft, crumbling or showing at the edge, we look harder. A leaf with a lot of missing material at the corner may not recover.
When we say replace
Some damage is not worth chasing.
A large hole through the face of the leaf is one. A door that somebody cut down with a saw until it no longer matches its label is another, and so is a core crushed flat.
Panelled and moulded doors are a separate case. Cutting mouldings into a leaf voids its rating, so the honest answer there is a plain certified doorset.
Photographs of both faces and the edge are normally enough for us to tell you which group your door is in, before you spend any more on it.
Filler
Filler alone is not a repair, because it crumbles under heat and hides whatever is going on beneath it. Small screw holes and old lock holes can be plugged with hardwood. A big cut-out cannot.
What you get
A price per door, and a photo of each door before and after. Our carpenters do the work, and where a third-party certificate is needed it is carried out by our BM TRADA-certificated contractors.
Questions we get asked
Can you repair a door that has been kicked in?
Often yes, if the damage is at the edge. If the face and the core are broken, a new door is cheaper than repeated attempts.
Does a repaired edge need repainting?
Yes. We leave it ready for your decorator, and we ask them to leave seals alone.
Send it over with the postcode and we will price it door by door.
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