ADIA-Certified Engineers — Scheduled Maintenance Visits
Automatic Door Maintenance Manchester
BJM Door Solutions provides Automatic Door Maintenance Manchester businesses can rely on — scheduled servicing to keep your automatic doors safe, compliant and breakdown-free.
- BS EN 16005 Compliant Servicing
- Reduce Costly Emergency Callouts
- ADIA & CSCS Registered Engineers
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Planned Maintenance
Why Scheduled Automatic Door Maintenance Matters
Automatic doors take thousands of cycles a day. Without regular servicing, worn parts and sensor faults often go unnoticed until the door fails completely — usually at the worst possible moment. Planned maintenance visits catch problems early, keep your doors BS EN 16005 compliant, and help you avoid our fixed £95 emergency call-out fee altogether.
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Accreditations
Registered CSCS, IPAF & ADIA Engineer
What's Included
What's Included In An Automatic Door Maintenance Visit
Every scheduled maintenance visit from BJM Door Solutions covers a full inspection of your automatic door system, carried out by ADIA-certified engineers to BS EN 16005 standards.
- Sensor & safety testing — checking obstacle detection and safety sensors respond correctly.
- Lubrication & mechanical adjustment — moving parts, tracks, rollers and hinges serviced to prevent wear.
- Motor & control board inspection — diagnosing early signs of motor or control unit failure.
- Door alignment & speed checks — ensuring smooth, compliant opening and closing cycles.
- Full service report — a documented record for your compliance and insurance files.
All Makes & Models
Maintenance For Every Automatic Door Type
We service all major automatic door systems and control units, including sliding doors, swing door operators, telescopic and folding doors, and access control-integrated entrances, across Manchester and the North West.
We cover: Manchester city centre, Salford, Trafford, Stockport, Oldham, Bolton, Bury, Rochdale, Wigan, Tameside, and all surrounding Greater Manchester areas.
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Why Choose BJM Door Solutions for Automatic Door Maintenance?
ADIA-certified engineers
members of the Automatic Door Industry Association
CSCS and IPAF registered
qualified to work on commercial and public-access sites
Full service records
documentation provided for your compliance records
Scheduled visits
planned maintenance with no surprise costs
BS EN 16005 compliant
every visit meets current UK safety standards
Fully insured
public liability cover for complete peace of mind
Your Legal Duty
Is Automatic Door Servicing a Legal Requirement?
Effectively, yes — and this is the part most business owners are never told when the door is installed.
An automatic pedestrian door is powered machinery operating in a space where the public walk. That puts several overlapping duties on whoever controls the premises:
- BS EN 16005 — the safety standard for power-operated pedestrian doorsets. It requires doors to be safety-tested and maintained by a competent person, including force measurement to confirm the door won't injure a user.
- Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, Reg 18 — deals specifically with doors and gates, requiring powered doors to have the safety devices needed to prevent injury, kept in working order.
- PUWER — work equipment must be maintained in efficient working order, with intervals set by usage and environment rather than a fixed calendar rule.
- Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 — the overarching duty of care to employees and members of the public on your premises.
- Your insurer — this is the one that bites in practice. If someone is injured by your door, the first thing requested is the service history. No record, no defence.
A documented service report is the evidence that you met these duties. We provide one after every visit.
Service Intervals
How Often Should Your Automatic Doors Be Serviced?
There is no single legal interval — the standards require you to set one based on how hard the door works. Cycle count matters far more than age. These are the intervals we typically recommend across Greater Manchester:
| Site type | Typical usage | Recommended interval |
|---|---|---|
| Supermarkets & high-footfall retail | Very high — thousands of cycles daily | Quarterly (4 visits/year) |
| Hospitals, clinics & care homes | High, plus vulnerable users and DDA duties | Quarterly (4 visits/year) |
| Shopping centres & leisure | High, heavily weighted to peak periods | Quarterly or six-monthly |
| Schools & public buildings | Moderate but concentrated in bursts | Six-monthly (2 visits/year) |
| Offices & business parks | Moderate, weekday-only | Six-monthly (2 visits/year) |
| Warehouses & industrial units | Variable, often harsh environment | Six-monthly, or quarterly on loading bays |
| Small retail & low-traffic entrances | Low | Annual minimum |
Annual is the floor, not the target. If your door serves the public, opens more than a few hundred times a day, or is the only accessible entrance to the building, you should be on at least a six-monthly schedule. We'll survey and recommend honestly — we won't sell you quarterly visits you don't need.
Costs
How Much Does Automatic Door Maintenance Cost?
Typical UK annual service contracts run £180–£350 per door per year, varying with usage classification, operator brand and how many doors are on the schedule. Multi-door and multi-site premises are normally quoted at a lower per-door rate.
Set that against the alternative. A single emergency callout carries our fixed £95 attendance charge before any parts, and an entrance out of action during trading hours costs far more than the repair does. Most breakdowns we attend showed warning signs — sensor drift, slow closing, unusual noise — that a scheduled visit would have caught.
What moves the price: number of doors, site access, operator make and age, required visit frequency, whether out-of-hours visits are needed to avoid disrupting trade, and whether roller shutters or fire exit doors are added to the same schedule.
Guide figures are typical UK market rates for planning purposes. We quote a fixed annual price per site after survey — call 07799446938.
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How It Works
Setting Up a Maintenance Contract
Site survey
We log every door on site — type, operator make, age, condition and cycle load — and flag anything already out of compliance before it becomes your problem.
Agreed schedule & fixed price
We recommend an interval per door based on actual usage, then quote one fixed annual price. No per-visit surprises, no automatic uplifts buried in the small print.
Planned visits
We book visits in advance and work around your trading hours where needed. You don't have to remember when the service is due — that's our job.
Documented handover
Every visit ends with a service report covering safety tests, force measurements and any remedial recommendations — the record your insurer and any HSE inspector will ask for.
One Schedule, Every Door
We'll Cover Your Shutters and Fire Doors Too
Most sites don't have just automatic doors. If you're putting a maintenance schedule in place, it's usually cheaper and far less hassle to bring everything onto one visit rather than juggling three contractors.
We can add roller shutter servicing (BS EN 12635 log book maintained), steel fire exit door servicing, and access control systems to the same schedule — one visit, one report, one invoice.
Already have a fault? See automatic door repairs or our 24/7 emergency service.
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Automatic Door Maintenance Manchester — FAQs
How often should automatic doors be serviced?
Most commercial automatic doors should be serviced at least twice a year, though high-footfall sites such as retail units and healthcare premises often benefit from quarterly visits. Call 07799446938 and we'll recommend a schedule based on your door's usage.
What's included in an automatic door maintenance visit?
Every visit covers full sensor and safety testing, lubrication and mechanical adjustment, motor and control board inspection, door alignment and speed checks, plus a full service report for your compliance records.
Do you offer ongoing maintenance contracts?
Yes. BJM Door Solutions arranges scheduled maintenance visits for shops, offices and warehouses across Manchester and the North West. Call 07799446938 to discuss a plan that suits your site.
Is regular servicing required for BS EN 16005 compliance?
Yes. BS EN 16005 requires automatic pedestrian doors to be regularly inspected and maintained by a competent engineer. Our maintenance visits are carried out to this standard, with full documentation provided.
Does regular maintenance reduce the risk of a breakdown?
Yes. Most emergency call-outs are for faults with early warning signs — worn parts, slow-closing doors, sensor drift — that a scheduled maintenance visit catches before they cause a full breakdown.
How much does automatic door maintenance cost?
Typical UK annual service contracts run £180–£350 per door per year, depending on usage classification, operator brand and how many doors are on the schedule. Multi-door and multi-site premises are quoted at a lower per-door rate. We give a fixed annual price per site after survey.
Is automatic door servicing a legal requirement?
In practice, yes. BS EN 16005 requires power-operated pedestrian doors to be safety-tested and maintained by a competent person; the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 (Reg 18) require powered doors to have working safety devices; and PUWER requires work equipment to be kept in efficient working order. Your insurer will also expect a service history if there's ever a claim.
What happens if I don't service my automatic doors?
Three things, in escalating order of cost. The door breaks down at the worst moment and you pay emergency rates. Safety devices drift out of tolerance, so the door can injure someone. And if it does, you have no service record to show you met your duty of care — which is where insurance claims and HSE enforcement get expensive.
Do you service doors you didn't install?
Yes — most of the doors on our maintenance schedules were installed by someone else. We service all major operator makes and models, and we'll take on sites where the original installer has gone out of business or stopped responding.
Can you service multiple sites under one contract?
Yes. Multi-site schedules are common for retail chains, care home groups and property managers. You get one schedule, one point of contact and consolidated reporting, usually at a lower per-door rate than single-site contracts.
Can you service roller shutters and fire exit doors at the same time?
Yes, and it's usually the sensible approach. We can add roller shutter servicing and steel fire exit door servicing to the same schedule — one visit, one report, one invoice, rather than three separate contractors.
What is BS EN 16005 force testing?
It's the measurement of the force your door exerts when closing or opening onto an obstruction, checked against the limits in the standard. A door that has drifted out of tolerance can injure a child, an elderly user or a wheelchair user. It's a core part of every service visit and it's recorded on your report. See our guide to BS EN 16005.
Will servicing disrupt our trading hours?
Rarely. A routine service on a single door typically takes under an hour and the door stays usable for most of it. Where a site can't take any disruption — a busy supermarket entrance, for instance — we arrange early, late or out-of-hours visits.
Which areas do you cover for automatic door maintenance?
BJM Door Solutions covers all of Greater Manchester for automatic door maintenance, including Manchester city centre, Salford, Trafford, Stockport, Oldham, Bolton, Bury, Rochdale, Wigan, Tameside and surrounding areas.
Coverage
Areas We Cover for Automatic Door Maintenance
We run planned maintenance schedules for commercial premises throughout Greater Manchester and the North West, including:
- Manchester City Centre
- Salford
- Trafford
- Stockport
- Oldham
- Bolton
- Bury
- Rochdale
- Wigan
- Tameside
- Stretford
- Altrincham
- Didsbury
- Chorlton
- Hulme
- Ancoats
- Deansgate
- MediaCityUK
Multi-site across the North West? Call 07799446938 and we'll build one schedule for the lot.
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