Automatic Doors for Hotels and Hospitality

The faults that bring us to a hotel are often not failures at all — a door that has become noisy, one that hesitates before it starts, one that no longer closes tight and lets a draught across the lobby floor.

We repair drives, belts, carriers, rollers, bearings, control boards, sensors and seals, and correct the frame and threshold issues behind them. On revolving doors we service the drive, speed control, breakout and the four sensor groups, covered in detail on our revolving door service page.

Repairs are scheduled overnight wherever possible. Where a lobby entrance has to come out of use during the day, an alternative route is set up and staffed by agreement before the work begins.

Hotel entrances run continuously, so the interval is set on cycles rather than on the calendar — quarterly for most lobby entrances, more often on properties with heavy arrival peaks.

Each visit covers cycle testing, sensor re-aiming, timing and force adjustment, drive and running gear condition, seal compression, threshold and drainage, revolving door speed and breakout where applicable, and the locking and access control sequence on entrances that are secured overnight. The annual safety inspection is folded into one visit a year.

Amenity, meeting space and back-of-house doors are covered on the same visit so the whole property is on one schedule.

Hotel groups and management companies are covered property by property on one schedule with a single point of contact, so a regional director is not managing a different arrangement in every city.

Where a group is standardising its arrival experience, entrance replacement can be rolled out property by property overnight, with each lobby finished before the next one starts.

A revolving door is never the accessible route, so the entrance beside it carries that duty and has to be maintained accordingly. We measure clear width, opening force, hold-open and threshold on the accessible entrance rather than assuming it still meets what it did at handover.

Accessible guest room doors, pool and fitness access, meeting room entrances and public restrooms are the other openings guests most often struggle with, and they are the quickest to fit with a low-energy operator.

Lobby doors that have become noisy or hesitant, revolving doors that stop mid-rotation, entrances that no longer close tight and let a draught across the floor, and porte-cochère doors that have started letting water in are the four calls we take most often in hospitality.

None of them are total failures, and all of them are visible to guests. They also all have straightforward causes — worn carriers and bearings, a drifting sensor group, hardened seals, a lifted threshold — which is why hospitality entrances respond so well to a fixed service interval.

Hotels secure their entrances overnight and open them again in the morning, often on a schedule rather than by hand. That sequence involves the operator, the locking device, the access control interface and sometimes the fire alarm, and a fault anywhere in it leaves an entrance that will not lock or will not open.

We install, repair and test that whole sequence, including card access for out-of-hours guest entry, and check it in both directions rather than only the one the property uses most.

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

Tell us the property and the entrances, and we will schedule the work into your quiet hours.