Fire door inspection in Chislehurst
Big old houses turned into flats, and the doors that came with them.
Get a priceA big old house turned into flats is where we find the most mixed doors.
The conversion may be forty years old. The building may be a hundred and forty. Some of the doors are older than the flats.
The panelled door problem
A traditional panelled door looks right in an old house. It is also thin where the panels sit, and it was never made or tested as a fire door.
Owners often ask whether it can be upgraded with paint, or a strip, or a board across the back. Not reliably. Plain paint on timber does very little. We would put in a plain certified doorset instead, and we will say so in the report.
If the building is listed, speak to the council's conservation team before you change a door.
Where we start
The front door of each flat and the door at the foot of the stair. Then any doors to a basement or a boiler cupboard under the stair.
The cupboard under the stair deserves a look. If a fire starts there, the stair is the way out for everybody above.
Getting here
Chislehurst is in the London Borough of Bromley and London Fire Brigade is the enforcing authority. We come from Luton and will give you a time when we have a few visits in the area.
Send the postcode and a rough number. A price comes back the same day.
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