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Your door does 500 cycles a day. A house door does four.
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That is the whole page, really. A front door at home is opened perhaps four times a day. A door into an office, a shop or a unit can do five hundred, every working day, for years, often by people carrying things and not looking. Everything that goes wrong with a commercial door is that number.
Wear, not failure
Nobody breaks a commercial door. It wears out, and then somebody's shoulder finishes it.
| Symptom | The real cause | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Door drags on the floor | Hinges worn by 500 cycles a day | £45-90 |
| Won't latch, needs a push | Door dropped, keep no longer lines up | £45-90 |
| Key won't turn | Cylinder worn out in three years, not fifteen | £45-90 |
| Handle loose or spinning | Spindle and springs gone | £45-110 |
| Slams or won't close | Closer | £35-140 |
| Panic bar stiff | Worn. Would fail in a real evacuation. | £45-90 |
Every one of those is cheap while it is only stiff and expensive once somebody has forced it. Same story as a uPVC gearbox in a house, just running at a hundred times the speed.
The fire door bit, which is not optional
A lot of commercial doors are fire doors, and a fire door is certified as an assembly: the leaf, the frame, the intumescent strip, the closer and the ironmongery, tested together.
- Cut the wrong hole and the rating is void
- Fit a lock it was never tested with: void
- Closer removed or dead: it is not a fire door
- Gap too large: the strip cannot bridge it
- Wedged open: none of the above matters
We will tell you if what you have asked for would void a certification, rather than doing it and taking the money. That is not us being difficult. It is that the person who fitted it gets asked afterwards.
Why we would rather come before it breaks
A door on a shop or an office does not fail politely at 2pm on a Wednesday. It fails at closing time on a Saturday, or at 7am with a delivery outside, and then it is an emergency, the frame is damaged because somebody forced it, and you are shut.
Hinges, keeps and closers on a high-traffic door want looking at once a year. It is £45-90 a door and it is the difference between maintenance and a Saturday night.
What it costs
| Job | Price |
|---|---|
| Hinge and alignment service | £45-90 |
| Commercial cylinder replaced | £45-90 |
| Handle set and spindle | £45-110 |
| Closer adjusted / replaced | £35-140 |
| Panic bar serviced | £45-90 |
| Frame repair after forced entry | £90-220 |
| Fire-door-rated lock, correct spec | £65-140 |
| Annual service, per door | £45-90 |
Out of hours at the same price. Multiple doors invoiced together.
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Questions people actually ask
Why do commercial door locks wear out so fast?
Cycles, and the numbers are not close. A front door at home is opened maybe four times a day. A door into an office, a shop or a unit can do five hundred, every working day, often by people carrying boxes and not looking at what they are doing. A cylinder that would last fifteen years on a house is worn out in three on a shop. That is not a quality problem, it is arithmetic, and it is why a commercial door wants servicing annually rather than when it fails.
Can you fit any lock to our fire door?
No, and this is where we say no most often. A fire door is certified as a whole assembly: the leaf, the frame, the intumescent strip, the closer and the ironmongery, all tested together. Cut the wrong hole in it or fit a lock it was never tested with and the certification for that door is void. We use locks rated for fire doors and fit them to spec, and if what you have asked for would void the rating we will tell you rather than doing it and taking the money. The person who fitted it is the person who gets asked afterwards.
Our shop door drags on the floor. Is that serious?
It is the start of an expensive sequence. The hinges have worn from the sheer number of cycles, the door has dropped, and it is now catching. Next the latch stops lining up with the keep, so people push and pull harder, and eventually somebody forces it and damages the frame. Fixed at the dragging stage it is £45 to £90 for hinges and alignment. Left until somebody's shoulder finishes it, the frame repair alone is £90 to £220 and you are shut while it happens.
Is an annual door service actually worth it?
On a high-traffic door, yes, and it is one of the few maintenance items that genuinely pays. £45 to £90 per door covers hinges, alignment, keeps and the closer. The alternative is that the door fails at closing time on a Saturday or at 7am with a delivery outside, which is an emergency callout, a damaged frame because somebody forced it, and lost trading. Commercial doors do not fail politely at 2pm on a Wednesday.