Services

Eight kinds of work, all at the edge of the building.

Shopfronts, shutters, doors, and looking after them once they are in. Each page below explains how we would specify the work and why, including the parts that are easy to get wrong.

Shopfronts

The frame, the glass and the door: the part of the building the street sees.

0101Aluminium shopfrontsFramed aluminium frontages, drawn around the entrance door first, because the door is the part that wears.
0202Toughened glass shopfrontsFrameless glass for a frontage that should read as one clear plane, with its compromises stated plainly.

Shutters

What comes down at night, and the details that decide whether it stays down.

0303Roller shuttersSteel and aluminium roller shutters, specified by lath, box position and how they will be opened every morning.
0404Security shuttersShutters built to a tested attack rating, for premises where an insurer has an opinion.

Doors

The openings used most often, and the ones most often attacked.

0505Security doorsSteel doors for back entrances, stock rooms and plant rooms: the openings burglars actually choose.
0606Automatic doorsSliding and swing operators for entrances that should open without a free hand, commissioned to BS EN 16005.

Aftercare

Servicing, repair, and the phone call at closing time.

0707Shutter repairsMotors, laths, guides, springs and switches, on any make of shutter, whoever fitted it.
0808Emergency calloutA shutter stuck open, a door forced, a window put through: someone on site to make it safe and lockable.