Public sector and social housing

We fit and configure door access for local authority housing teams, ALMOs and housing associations, primary and secondary schools, academy trusts and colleges, NHS and health premises, and the council-run buildings around them — libraries, depots, community centres and leisure sites.

A key handed to a contractor is a key nobody can account for afterwards. On a housing estate, a school site or a health building that is not an inconvenience, it is a control that has failed — and the usual remedy, re-keying a whole block after one loss, costs more than the locks did.

Codes and cards can be issued to a person and taken back from that person. That is the whole argument, and it is a stronger one the more doors and the more people are involved.

Invoiced against a purchase order. We raise a written quote you can put through procurement, and invoice against the PO number afterwards. No card payment on the day, no chasing a caretaker for a signature.

Phased, not all at once. Blocks, wings or floors in an order that suits the site — term time, void periods, decant programmes. We would rather do twenty doors across four visits that work than eighty in a week that does not.

A record per door. What was fitted, where, which mechanism it went onto, and who holds which credential. Handed over as a document, not left in an installer's phone.

Fire doors treated as a specification question. A fire door's certification depends on what is fitted to it. We say so before quoting rather than after fitting.

We are a specialist installer, not a national facilities contractor. On a focused programme — one estate, one school, a set of voids — that is an advantage: the people who survey the site are the people who fit and configure it.

On a framework covering hundreds of buildings across several counties, it is a limitation, and we will say so at the first conversation rather than at the point it starts to matter.