Houses here rarely have just one way in
Most of what we fit across Trafford is on larger semis and detached houses, and they tend to have a front door, a back door onto the garden, sometimes a side gate and often a garage with its own door.
People usually start by asking about the front door and end up doing two or three, because the back door is the one the family actually uses and the garage is where the bikes are. That is worth deciding up front rather than adding later — doing them together is cheaper per door than coming back twice.
Several doors, one system
The point of doing more than one at a time is that they end up on one account instead of three. One code for a cleaner that opens the front and the back, one place to see what happened, one app to hand over when somebody stays.
The doors themselves usually differ — a composite front, a uPVC back door, and a garage side door that is a different animal entirely — so they will not all take the same lock. Matching what fits each door to one system that runs all of them is most of what the survey is doing.
Back doors and garages are their own problem
A back door is out of sight from the street, gets weather from a different direction, and is often the oldest door on the house because nobody replaces the one visitors do not see. Half the time it is also the one with the worst mechanism.
Garage side doors are frequently the weakest point on a property and the one nobody thinks about. If the garage connects through to the house, that door matters as much as the front one, and we will say so at the survey.
How many doors, in WA14, WA15 or M33?
Count them and send photos of each. We will price the set rather than one at a time.
Request a quote