Restoration, alignment and certified remedial work on solid hardwood, engineered timber and rated fire doors — from a creaking Edwardian front door to a non-compliant communal flat entrance.
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Hyvora handles three families of wooden door work, all out of the same toolkit but with different parts on the van.
A solid timber door that has been hanging twenty years will eventually pull its top hinge. The screws turn in mush, the door drags on the threshold, and the lock stops engaging cleanly. We strip the hinge, dowel and re-glue the screw line, then re-fit with longer fixings into solid timber. Where the frame itself has split we'll resin-bond the cheek before re-hanging, which is cheaper than a frame swap and lasts in our experience another ten to fifteen years.
The Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 made quarterly inspections of communal fire doors mandatory in blocks over eleven metres tall, and a yearly check on the flat entrance doors of every leaseholder. We inspect against the FDIS criteria and supply a written certificate per door — typical findings include missing intumescent strips, non-conforming flush bolts, oversized gaps and incompatible closers. Most flats can be made compliant inside an hour.
Period doors in Islington, Camden and Hackney are routinely beautiful and frequently misaligned. We work hard to keep original ironmongery in place — we'll re-tap stripped screw holes, mill new keeps for sagging mortice locks, and adjust hinge knuckles before we ever recommend replacing a door someone has lived with for thirty years.
If you can hear a door scrape on the floor, see daylight under it, or watch the latch miss the keeper by a fraction — those are three different problems with three different repairs. Send us a photo of each and we'll tell you which one your door has.
Below are typical line items so you know what's coming. Every quote we issue is fixed before we start; the figures here are illustrative.
Send a photo and a paragraph; we will reply with a written quote and an offered slot inside two working hours. The engineer will turn up with the right hinges, closers and seals in the van — we don't issue half-completed jobs that need a second visit for parts. After the work, you will get a part-coded receipt, the spare keys (if any), and a hand-over note covering how to look after the door for the next decade.
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