Typical UK price ranges (2026)
Indicative ranges, single-door commercial premises, mainland UK, fitted including parts and standard daytime labour:
Aluminium door bottom pivot replacement: £180–£350
Top centre replacement: £200–£350
Overhead closer replacement: £220–£420
Transom closer replacement: £500–£900
Floor spring replacement: £500–£900
Lock cassette replacement: £220–£600 (depending on insurer grade)
Single fire door inspection visit (per door): £45–£80
Panic hardware replacement (single bar): £350–£750
Automatic door annual service (single door): £180–£320
Emergency board-up after break-in: £250–£500 (depending on door size)
What drives parts cost up
Brand-specific patch fittings. APG glass door parts — especially for discontinued Dorma, Briton or Adams Rite systems — can be 3–5x the price of equivalent off-the-shelf hardware. Sometimes this is unavoidable; sometimes a cross-compatible part is available at standard cost.
Insurer-graded locks. An insurance specification (LPS 1175, TS 007 grade 3) costs significantly more than a standard cylinder. Required where your insurer specifies it; not required everywhere.
Fire-rated hardware. Hinges, closers and panic hardware that are CE / UKCA marked for fire performance cost 20–60% more than their non-fire-rated equivalents. Required by law on fire doors.
Discontinued or bespoke parts. Where the original is unavailable, a one-off machined replacement carries the machining cost (£150–£400 extra) on top of the part. Specialist suppliers do hold some discontinued stock at standard prices — an engineer with a good network often finds option 2 instead of option 3.
What drives labour up
Urgency. Same-day emergency response on a security-critical breakdown adds typically £150–£400 over a scheduled visit. Out-of-hours (evening, overnight, weekend) adds further. Where the door can safely wait until the next working day, schedule it.
Site access constraints. Working in a busy retail unit during trading hours, working on a heavily-secured site that requires escort, working at height, working in cold-store conditions — all add labour time.
Make-good work. If the door has been running broken for months, the surrounding components (frame, latch, threshold, glazing) often need attention too. A scope creep is common in cascade-failure repairs.
Travel. Most engineers price travel within a normal service radius. Remote sites add £0.45–£0.80/mile for travel time and vehicle costs.
Where you can legitimately save
Bundle multiple doors into a single visit. An engineer on site for 3 hours can repair 3–4 doors for not much more labour than the first one alone.
Schedule rather than emergency-call. The same fault scheduled costs less and gets the same parts.
Annual maintenance contracts — for premises with 4+ commercial doors. The per-incident rate drops; small jobs get done at no extra cost during the visit.
Choose certified-equivalent parts where the original brand is uneconomical. An engineer with a good supplier network can keep certification while sourcing more economically.
Where saving costs more later
Non-certified parts on fire doors. Invalidates certification. Looks identical. Costs the same. Will be flagged at the next fire risk assessment and the door will need to be redone in full. Always insist on certified parts on any fire door work.
Patch-up instead of replacement on end-of-life components. A floor spring with 3 months left can have its valves adjusted for £80. When it fails outright in 3 months you pay £800 for replacement plus an emergency callout. Replacing while it is still in service is cheaper.
Using a general handyman or maintenance contractor on closers, automatic doors, fire doors or graded security doors. These need brand-specific training and current certifications. The cost difference is small; the consequences of a botched repair are large.