A lot of the building around Wokingham is recent.
People assume a new block has good doors. Sometimes it does. Often the faults are just different from the ones in an old building.
What goes wrong in a new building
The frame is the usual culprit. It gets fitted in a hurry, packed with whatever was to hand, and the gap down the lock side is 6mm at the top and 2mm at the bottom. Nobody notices until an inspector holds a gauge to it.
Then the trades come through after the doors are hung. An electrician drills the frame to run a cable. A decorator paints the seals shut. A flooring contractor lays carpet that is a few millimetres thicker than the allowance, and the bottom edge starts to catch.
None of this is anyone's idea of damage. It is what happens when many people work in the same corridor.
What we do about it
We go through the report and sort the faults into those that are quick and those that are not.
Painted seals, a closer that needs setting up and a hinge with missing screws are quick. We can do a floor of those in a day.
Uneven frames are the slow ones. They mean taking off the architraves, packing and fixing the frame again and putting everything back. We price that line separately so you know what you are paying for.
If the building is still under warranty
Say so when you contact us. A fault the developer should fix is a different conversation from one you have to fix yourself, and we would rather you knew which was which before anyone is paid.
We can write up what we find on each door, with photos, and that is usually the thing a developer asks for.
Getting to Wokingham
We come from Luton and it is a long drive, so we like to book a full day. If you have 15 or 20 doors on the list, that is a good size of job for us.
For one or two doors we will tell you honestly if a local carpenter would cost you less.
Your council is Wokingham Borough Council. The fire service that would audit you is Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service.
Questions we get asked
Can you work on a block where residents are home?
Yes. Most of our work is in occupied buildings. We tell residents the day before, and we keep each door off its hinges for as short a time as we can.
The developer has gone. Who is responsible now?
The person responsible for the building under fire safety law, usually the freeholder or the managing agent. That is who we would deal with.
Send it to us with the postcode and we will price it door by door.
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