Emergency Board-Up and Door Securement

Forced doors, levered frames, damaged locks and broken glass after a break-in are secured in the same visit. Where a panel or frame has been levered out of shape, the opening is boarded and the frame is straightened or replaced as part of the follow-up repair.

Locking hardware, electric strikes and access control components damaged during the entry are checked and replaced with the glass rather than afterwards, so the entrance is genuinely secure once the board comes off.

Wind-driven debris, water intrusion and pressure damage to entrances are secured and made watertight. Storm damage often shows up first as an entrance that will not seal or a threshold that has lifted, and only later as visible damage.

After the immediate securement we check the whole assembly — panels, header, threshold, drainage and seals — because water that has been through an entrance once will keep coming through the same path until it is closed properly.

The part of the repair most often skipped is the structure. A frame that has been struck or levered is rarely square afterwards, and an automatic door hung in an out-of-square opening will wear its carriers and lose its settings within months.

We check and correct frame square, header support and threshold seating before the new panel goes in, so the entrance runs the way it did before rather than becoming a recurring service call.

A general board-up contractor secures the hole. A door contractor secures the hole and understands what has happened to the entrance behind it — whether the header has taken load, whether the running gear is damaged, whether the operator can be run at all.

That matters because the second visit is where the money goes. An opening boarded without checking the frame and header usually needs the work doing twice: once for the glass, once again when the door will not run properly in a frame that was never straightened.

We secure the opening, assess the whole assembly while we are there, and come back once to finish the job rather than twice.

Replacement glass for a commercial entrance is made to order and rarely available the same day. The board-up has to hold for days rather than hours, and it has to leave the building usable.

Where the entrance has more than one leaf, we secure the damaged section and keep a route open. Where it does not, we can often restore a manual door in the opening so staff and customers still have a way in and out. Locking hardware is checked and made functional so the building can be secured properly at night rather than relying on the board alone.

Damage rarely happens at a convenient time. Board-up calls are answered at night, at weekends and on public holidays, because an unsecured entrance is not something that can wait until Monday.

Retail sites are usually secured before closing time is missed. Healthcare, hospitality and multi-tenant buildings are secured with the route through the building kept open, since those buildings do not close at all.

Glass is the visible part of the damage and rarely the whole of it. A vehicle strike loads the header and can shear its fixings. A forced entry twists the frame and stretches the lock preparation. Storm damage lifts thresholds and drives water into the floor track where it sits for weeks.

We check the header, jambs, threshold, track and operator while the opening is boarded, so what comes back on the second visit is a full repair rather than a new panel in a damaged frame. Where the structure needs work, you know before the glass arrives rather than after.

Texas — Austin, Cedar Park, Cypress, Richardson, McKinney, Sherman, Paris. Connecticut — Hartford, New Haven, Danbury, Greenwich. Alabama — Birmingham.

Call as soon as the opening is unsafe — we secure it first and measure for the replacement while we are there.