Installed UK-wide

Aluminium entrance doors

Aluminium entrance doors for shops, offices and communal entrances, fitted across the UK. They suit an existing shopfront that is sound but whose door has had its day, as well as new fronts. A replacement door in a suitable frame is usually a short job; the price depends on size, glazing and hardware and is quoted in writing.

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Consents this work tends to involve

Planning permission
Sometimes
Replacing a door within an existing front in the same style rarely needs it; changing the opening or the look on a sensitive building can.
Listed building consent
Sometimes
Any change to a historic entrance on a listed building.
Building regulations
Often needed
Clear width, threshold and safety glazing on a public entrance.

An installer’s general guide; your council decides.

Shopfront under construction: a new dark aluminium frame with a glazed door, protective tape on the floor.

Floor spring or overhead closer?

A floor spring hides the closer in the floor and gives the cleanest look, which suits heritage settings and frameless doors; it needs a pit cut in the floor. An overhead closer is easier to fit to an existing door and to service. Both are rated by their power size, which must match the door’s width and weight.

What makes an entrance door accessible?

A level threshold, enough clear width once the door is open, an opening force a wheelchair user or parent with a buggy can manage, and handles at a usable height. A heavy glazed door on a strong closer fails the third test more often than any other.

Standards and regulations

Reference	What it covers
BS EN 1154	Controlled door closing devices — closers and floor springs.
Approved Document M	Entrance widths, thresholds and opening forces.
BS EN 14351-1	Product standard for external pedestrian doorsets.

Questions

Can you replace just the door and keep the shopfront?

Usually, if the frame is sound and square. We check the frame and the floor at the survey; a door hung in a twisted frame will drop again however good it is.

Automatic doors — Sliding and swing entrances that open on approach, with the safety standards they need.
Aluminium shopfronts — Framed glazed fronts in powder-coated aluminium, proportioned to the building they sit in.
Shopfront repairs — Doors that drop, locks that stick, frames that leak — fixed within 100 road miles of Birmingham.