Impact traffic doors in Whitstable

At a glance

Trolleys and pallet trucks wrecking ordinary doors at your Whitstable site? Double-acting impact traffic doors are built to be pushed through and swing back closed on their own, shift after shift.

Town: Whitstable
Postcode district: CT5
Area: Kent
Survey: Free for new installations

What to specify

No power needed. With no electrics to fail, traffic doors keep working with very little upkeep.
Leaf choices. Polyethylene, rubber, insulated or stainless-faced leaves to suit the area.
Wear protection. Kick plates and bumper strips take the knocks at trolley height.
Hinge options. Rising-cam gravity hinges or spring hinges matched to leaf weight.
Impact-tolerant. Polyethylene and rubber leaves flex or absorb knocks from trolleys and trucks.

Jobs we can carry out

Replacing worn strip curtains with hygienic traffic doors in a food production area to make cleaning easier.
Fitting polyethylene traffic doors between a shop floor and stockroom where roll cages damage ordinary doors.
Supplying rubber traffic doors for a busy pallet truck route in a parcel sorting warehouse.

Door rules for workplaces in England

Doors in Whitstable workplaces are covered by regulation 18 of the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992: a door that can be pushed open from either side must give, when closed, a clear view of the space close to both sides, which is why swing doors on traffic routes have vision panels. Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, emergency exit doors must open easily and immediately in the direction of escape.

Access, phasing and timing

Downtime matters on a working site, so the programme is set around your shifts. For a single door the opening is usually needed for a day; multi-door jobs are done one bay at a time so deliveries keep moving.

Prices for impact traffic doors in Whitstable

Impact traffic doors guide prices
Item	Guide price (ex VAT)
Impact traffic doors, pair	£895 – £2,495
PVC strip curtain, per doorway	£175 – £895

Guide prices for supply and installation unless stated, excluding VAT, which is added at the current rate where it applies. Your fixed price is confirmed in writing after a survey, before any work starts.

Questions from businesses in Whitstable

Are traffic doors suitable for forklift routes at our Whitstable warehouse?

Generally not. Forklifts are too heavy and fast for most traffic doors and quickly damage the leaves. For forklift routes we would usually recommend a high-speed door or a strip curtain instead.

Do you fit traffic doors in food premises around Kent?

Yes. We fit hygienic polyethylene, insulated and stainless steel traffic doors in food production, catering and retail sites across Kent, with the leaf material chosen to suit your cleaning regime, chemicals and audit requirements.

Will traffic doors in Whitstable help keep areas warm or cool?

They cut draughts and help separate temperature zones, particularly with insulated leaves. For chillers and freezers, a dedicated cold store door is needed, sometimes with traffic doors or strips used inside.

Impact traffic doors near Whitstable

Besides Whitstable, we can survey and quote for sites in Herne Bay, Canterbury, Faversham and the rest of Kent.

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