Size the hardware for the traffic
A closer specified for an office will not survive a dock door. A continuous hinge spreads the load along the whole edge instead of three knuckles, and it costs more once rather than becoming a recurring call.
Warehouse
Doors and hardware for Miami warehouses
A distribution building fails at its openings. Everything else can wait a day, and a dock that will not open cannot.
Industrial doors fail from impact rather than age. Pallet trucks catch them, they get propped through deliveries, and they sit in dust and driven rain that destroys seals and works into hinges.
The pattern is always the same. The door drops, stops latching, somebody winds the closer up to force it shut, and the wear accelerates while the building stands unsecured at the end of a shift.
What we get called for
- Personnel door hardware, closers, hinges and thresholds on dock lines
- Continuous hinge fitting on high-cycle and impact-damaged doors
- Roll-up door hardware, guides, latches and alignment
- Panic hardware and exit devices on warehouse egress routes
- Frame repair and strike adjustment after vehicle impact
- Weatherstripping and seal renewal against dust and rain
- Obstructed and blocked exits, which are an inspection finding
Performed in-house
Who carries out this work.
Performed by TrionX employees. No Florida contractor licence is required for this trade, and TrionX carries general liability and workers compensation covering the work.
Why TrionX
How we approach it.
Bollards cost less than door frames
On a site with repeated impact damage the honest recommendation is protection rather than another repair, because a guard costs a fraction of the frame or column it stops being hit.
Safety devices get restored, not bypassed
A photo eye disconnected because it was nuisance-tripping is a serious exposure on a door that heavy. We diagnose why it tripped, fix that, and restore the device rather than leaving it defeated.
Common questions
Questions we get asked
Why does our dock personnel door keep failing to latch?
It has almost certainly dropped. Constant use and equipment impact wear the hinges so the latch no longer meets the strike squarely. Winding the closer up to force it shut accelerates the wear, so the fix is the hinges and alignment rather than the closer.
Do you repair powered roll-up doors?
The hardware side is ours: guides, latches, locks, alignment and manual operation. Motors, controls, safety edges and photo eyes involve wiring and motorised equipment, which is licensed electrical work at any job size, so an electrician handles that and we coordinate it.
Our exit doors have stock in front of them. Does that matter?
Yes, and it is one of the first things an inspector checks. The device can be perfect and the exit still unusable. It costs nothing to fix, and it is worth agreeing with the operation where stock goes rather than clearing it once and finding it back next week.
Can work happen without stopping the operation?
Usually, by sequencing doors rather than taking a whole dock line out, and by working around shift patterns. Tell us the operating hours when you raise the job so it goes into the scope rather than being negotiated on the morning.
Further reading
Field notes on this.
Written for the people who have to make the call. More in our insights, and the vocabulary in the glossary.
Related
The rest of the picture.
The opening that stops the operation
Dock personnel doors, roll-up hardware, exit devices and the alignment underneath them are performed by our own employees, sequenced around shifts. Powered operators go to a licensed electrician on the same visit.