Fire door inspection in Wimbledon
Offices by the station, flats on the Broadway and big houses in the Village.
Get a priceFor two weeks a year the whole world knows where Wimbledon is, and getting a van anywhere near the Village is not much fun.
So we will leave the Championships out of the diary, thank you. The other fifty weeks we are happy to come.
Wimbledon has two characters. Down by the station it is offices and flats and the Broadway. Up the hill it is large houses, a smart high street and a lot of schools.
Offices near the station
The office buildings around the town centre have the classic commuter-belt problems.
Doors held open by wedges, by fire extinguishers, by a box of paper. Closers backed off because someone in accounts complained. Doors fitted with card readers by an installer who cut straight through the intumescent strip.
Open-plan refits are worth a careful look. A new tenant moves in, partitions go up, and a fire door gets moved or replaced as part of the fit-out, sometimes by someone who did not know it was one.
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 somebody at the company is the responsible person, so if you have just taken a lease this probably means you.
We can do an office before nine or in a lunch hour. People just carry on working.
Flats on and off the Broadway
Blocks and flats above shops line the main road. Above a shop the same warning applies as anywhere. Find the door that separates the business from the stairs and check it first.
Purpose-built blocks are mostly about routine wear. If it is over 11 metres you have communal checks every three months, flat doors every year, and a record to keep.
Big houses in the Village
The large Victorian and Edwardian houses up the hill have often been split into two or three very nice flats. Very nice flats still share a staircase.
Original doors get kept because they are handsome. A panelled door voids the rating, however good it looks. Ask yourself what is protecting the stairs if the flat below catches fire.
Wimbledon Village has conservation areas. Check with Merton Council before you change anything that is on show.
Schools and clubs
Wimbledon has plenty of independent schools, as well as the sports clubs you would expect.
These get a proper look in the holidays. Corridors with heavy traffic wear out doors fast, and children have a talent for finding ways to break things.
We have inspected Luton schools and an almshouse: 147 fire doors, 140 of them repaired on site.
What we need from you
A postcode, a door count, the type of building and any fire risk assessment notes. You will have a price the same day.
We come from Luton and have no office in Wimbledon. Parking in SW19 is its own project, so tell us if there is anywhere we can stop.
Local details
Wimbledon sits in the London Borough of Merton, where London Fire Brigade enforces fire safety, and Raynes Park is in the same borough on the way over from Kingston.
Holidays
For a school we would come in the holidays, and everyone wants the same weeks, so book early.
Send us the postcode and a rough door count. You will have a price the same day.
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