When our surveyor investigated the problem with the right-hand gate leaf of this Grade II listed property, he found it had dropped, causing the roller to be squashed against the quadrant track, and this was what was making the gate difficult to close. He also found the bottom double action spring hinge was broken and not securely fixed and there was wear on the hinge above it because of this.

The complex repair involved manufacturing a quadrant wheel with bearing and clevis, and taking this to site along with 2 new weld-on rolled flag hinges. We removed the bottom glass panel, jacked the gate up a few millimetres, cut off the old quadrant track wheel and clevis and welded the new wheel and clevis in place. We then cut the bottom double action spring hinge, leaving the welded arm in place, and secured both the new hinges. Finally, we carefully ground down the bottom edge of the gate leaf to provide more clearance, then refitted the glass panel, checked that the gate leaf was in good working order.

Hard work, nerve racking, but worth all the skill and effort.

We were asked to inspect a door that was slamming so loudly it was annoying residents. We found the door was fitted with an overhead door closer which wasn’t suitable for the size and weight of the door, and were instructed to replace it. We did this and left the door closing smoothly.

We carried out a detailed out-of-hours inspection of the high entrance doors, and provided a report on our findings along with a quotation for the repairs needed. We have now been instructed to undertake the work. Inspection of the ‘Eiffel Doors’ on either side of the Stanhope Entrance, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

We collected one of the damaged door tracks to use as a sample and fabricated two bespoke curved tracks: one right and one left curved – both 30mm deep x 20mm wide with a 3mm wall. Ensuring that the tracks didn’t loose their shape when rolled was tricky, but our guys are used to such challenges, and we delivered the tracks, curved to the correct angles to the gallery for fitting by their maintenance team.

Restoring this door a great deal of took time and care. Once we’d removed the heavy door and arched frame – which was tricky in itself – we took them to our workshop, removed the paint and carefully repaired the door and frame. Then we painted them with primer, so when we reinstalled them, they were ready for final decoration.

Now, they’re booked to go back for another evening to put everything right.

Door Closing Repairs Westminster

Our door closer specialists have carried out door closing repairs on various doors at the Grade I Listed gallery in Westminster, including the heavy main wooden entrance doors, the four leaf revolving glass doors just inside the entrance, as well as fire doors, and doors to galleries, lifts, changing rooms and toilets. Sometimes, this has just meant adjusting the door closers, at others we have had to fit new door closing units, including manufacturing and installing non-standard components, such as the top centre pin and bushes.