Electric Locks & Maglocks in County Durham

The short version

The lock is the part that actually holds the door. Getting it right — and getting the fail-safe or fail-secure decision right — is the difference between a secure door and a dangerous one.

Buildings in County Durham usually reach this point when the number of keyholders outgrows anybody's memory of who has what. At that stage an audit trail stops being a nice extra and starts being the reason to do it at all.

Typical County Durham applications

Every access-controlled door, on every type of building.

• Healthcare and care homes — step-free automated entry, staff-only zones and fail-safe escape routes.
• Warehouses and depots — vehicle gate control, personnel doors and turnstiles on the pedestrian route.
• Retail and hospitality — back-of-house control, cash-office restriction and CCTV-linked door events.
• Commercial premises — multi-door fob or card systems with access levels, time zones and a full audit trail.

Scope of works

• Fail-safe locks on escape routes, released by the fire alarm
• Green break-glass emergency release on every maglocked exit
• Door closers and hold-open devices where required

From first call to handover

We look at the doors before we price them. That means measuring cable runs properly, checking whether the frame will take a maglock, and confirming with your fire documentation which openings must fail safe. The quotation that follows is fixed. Fixed-price quotations after survey — the figure you approve is the figure you pay.

Handover includes a tested fire release, a loaded user list, as-fitted details and the commissioning record — the paperwork your fire risk assessor and insurer will eventually ask for.

Coverage in County Durham

County Durham is within our regular coverage, which matters most when something fails and the building needs someone the same week. We work to Durham and across the DH, DL, TS postcode areas, covering 4 named towns in County Durham plus the surrounding villages and out-of-town estates.