Planned door maintenance
Scheduled servicing across your portfolio, so doors get attention before they fail — and so the records exist when someone asks for them.
Doors fail slowly, then suddenly
A closer does not stop working overnight. It drifts out of adjustment over months, the door starts catching, someone props it open, and eventually it fails completely — usually at the worst moment.
Almost every emergency door call we attend was avoidable. The fault was visible for months and nobody was looking. A door that latches is cheap to keep latching; a door that has dropped on its hinges and damaged its own frame is not.
Planned maintenance is simply looking before it breaks. For a building with dozens of openings it costs less than the reactive calls it prevents, and it produces something reactive work never does: a record.
And for fire doors, it is not optional
The Ontario Fire Code now requires monthly inspection of doors in fire separations. That is a recurring obligation whether or not you have a maintenance programme.
If you are attending those doors monthly anyway, maintaining the rest of the building’s doors on the same visit costs very little extra.
What we check and adjust
Closers
Closing and latching speed, backcheck, hold-open function, arm condition, leaks. Adjusted on the spot where possible.
Latching and strikes
That the door actually latches under its own power. Strike alignment corrected, worn latches identified before they fail.
Hinges and alignment
Sag, binding, loose or missing fasteners, worn bearings. Caught early, this is a shim; caught late, it is a frame.
Exit devices
Operation, dogging, alignment, wear. Safety-critical hardware on egress routes gets close attention.
Seals and thresholds
Gasketing, sweeps, smoke seals and thresholds — worn, painted over, or missing entirely.
Frames and leaves
Impact damage, corrosion, loose anchors, and anything drilled or modified since the last visit.
A file that builds over time
The value of a programme is not any single visit. It is what you can see after a year.
- Every opening numbered and tagged, so the record refers to a specific door
- Condition recorded and photographed at each visit
- Findings graded, so you know what is urgent and what can wait
- History carried forward — which doors keep failing, and why
- Records ready to produce for a fire prevention officer or insurer
- Evidence for capital planning, so replacement is budgeted rather than sprung on you
The budget argument
A portfolio owner’s hardest question is usually which buildings to spend on next year. Without records it is guesswork and whoever complains loudest.
With a year of door records it is visible — which building consumes the most call-outs, which openings keep failing, and where replacement is now cheaper than another repair.
Built around your buildings, not a package
We do not sell tiers. Frequency depends on what your buildings actually need.
Count the doors
We walk the buildings and tag every opening, separating fire-rated from the rest. Until this is done nobody can price the work honestly.
Set the frequency
Fire separation doors follow the Code. High-traffic doors need more attention than a rarely used store room. We propose a schedule and you adjust it.
Run it
Scheduled visits, records captured each time, and a call before any additional work. Repairs quoted separately, never assumed.
Find out what you are actually looking after
Most buildings do not know how many doors they have, let alone how many are fire-rated. We will count them and tell you, at no cost.
From there a programme is a straightforward conversation about frequency and budget.
Monday to Friday, 8am–5pm.
Discuss a programme
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