Fire door inspection in Sidcup
Blocks near the station, flats over the high street and small practices.
Get a priceSidcup is a suburb with a long high street and a railway line through it.
Most of the buildings that need door inspections here are small. A block of six flats on a side road, a row of flats above shops on the high street, a doctor's or dentist's practice that has been converted from a house.
None of them is big. All of them have a staircase and a few doors on which a lot depends.
Blocks on the side roads
A block of six to twelve flats, built between the wars or in the fifties, often has the same original entrance doors with a few replaced since.
The most common problem is simple wear. The closers are weak, the seals are gone, and the gap at the bottom has widened because the door has dropped on its hinges.
These are all repair jobs, and cheap to fix compared with a full replacement. A report tells you which doors need which.
Above the high street
Shops and flats mix on the main road. The shop's own back room often opens onto the same stair as the flats above.
If that door is thin or does not close, a fire in the shop has an easy route to the stairs. It is the first door we check in any building of this kind.
Small practices
A converted house used as a practice has fire doors on corridors and in front of treatment rooms. The staff know them because they open them all day.
What they notice less is when a closer arm comes loose or the door has been wedged because patients keep pushing it. Those go in the report.
Our page on workplaces has more on how we handle working buildings.
Which authority
Sidcup is in the London Borough of Bexley, with the London Fire Brigade as the fire service.
Getting here
From Luton it is about an hour and a quarter. It sits in the same swing as Bexleyheath, so the two often go on the same day.
Questions we get asked
Can you start with only the communal doors?
Yes. Many clients begin with the stairs and landings, then add the flat doors later.
Who decides if the doors are good enough?
The responsible person has to be satisfied. The report gives them what they need to decide.
Send us the postcode and a rough count of doors. A price comes back the same day.
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