Hospitality
Fire doors and seals for rooms that have to be back on sale tomorrow.
Overview
Hotels, resorts, serviced apartments, restaurants, bars, clubs and entertainment venues. A hotel is a residential building with a commercial operator and a guest behind every door, and the passive fire work has to be planned against occupancy rather than against a construction programme.
We work in blocks the operator can sell around, and hand each block back finished rather than part-done. You get the doors and seals done, certified and recorded, for the fewest room-nights lost.
We price it per door, so you can approve a floor at a time
A hotel room entry door is a fire door in a corridor, held closed by a closer that housekeeping props open every day. Add key card hardware, door viewers, security latches and years of touch-ups, and the doorset on site is not the doorset that was tested.
So we inspect and price per door. You approve a floor at a time against a cost you can see, instead of being handed one number for four hundred rooms and asked to take it on trust.
We take on the kitchen, which is the hard part
Commercial kitchens bring exhaust risers, gas, grease ducts and heavy services through rated construction, in a space that cannot close for long and cannot be left dirty. The duct protection and the penetrations around it are the most technical part of a hospitality job, and we do that work ourselves rather than subletting it — which is why the shutdown gets agreed once and used once.
What you get from us
- Guest room entry doors — inspection, hardware, seals, closers, repair or replacement.
- Fire doors to corridors, stairs, back of house, plant and kitchen areas.
- Kitchen and exhaust duct protection where ducts cross a fire-rated boundary.
- Penetration sealing and rectification through corridor and riser walls after refurbishment.
- Staged defect rectification, floor by floor, against occupancy.
- Records per room and per floor, so the operator can evidence the programme as it progresses.
The conditions we plan for
- Occupancy — The number of rooms that can be out at once is a commercial decision, and it sets the programme.
- Guests in the building — Noise windows, corridor protection and clean reinstatement each day, not at the end.
- Peak season — We plan the programme into your quieter months and resource it for those dates, so the work lands when the rooms are cheapest to lose.
- Kitchens cannot close — Duct and penetration work around live kitchens needs a shutdown window agreed with the venue, not assumed.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
- How many rooms do you need out at a time?
- As few as the programme can tolerate. Tell us what you can release and we will build the sequence around it.
- Can you do the work between checkout and check-in?
- For some scopes, yes. For anything involving the doorset being off its hinges or a ceiling opened up, no — that needs the room out.
- Do you work on kitchen exhaust ducts?
- We do the passive fire protection where the duct crosses a rated boundary. The mechanical scope itself sits with the mechanical contractor.
- We have four hundred doors. Where do we start?
- An inspection that records each door individually, so the repair programme can be staged and approved in parts.
Related
Drawings, photos or a defect report in front of you?
Send what you already have. We will tell you what else is needed before the work can be reviewed, priced or booked for site inspection.