Door Controls Direct has recently completed specifying for Stoneham Grove Care Home. It is the eighth Barchester Healthcare centre the firm has specified for, with a ninth in Woking currently in play.
This purpose-built new build residential care home has an ethos of compassionate care with a people-centred approach.
Space to live
Due to open shortly, this luxury facility in Tilehurst this is no ordinary care home with no ordinary level of expectations, the company says. The specification had to suit a wide range of rooms including a café, lounges, cinema, spa bathroom, beauty salon, plus 64 bedrooms.
Each individual has individual needs, which is well understood by the Barchester staff, so the specification echoed this across each varied area. There are of course some staples – DIN standard mortice locks, fire door signage – but with the mandate of creating a facility that enhances the life of each resident, Door Controls Direct says it had to "step up".
With the obvious requirement for passive fire safety measures, the schedule featured all required intumescent protection including 1200+ hinge pads. Accessibility was another key marker to hit so in addition to levers and pull handles that met BS8300-2 dimensional requirements, a large number of lift to lock sets were included, ensuring residents, visitors, and staff alike had easy access to all washroom facilities. Some pocket sliding door locksets topped off door hardware in communal areas.
"Despite seven previous properties having been successfully supplied, each subsequent one is taken on its own merit, our schedule tailored to the specific site," the company says. "With a stand alone master key system that we will continue the management of, there were also a substantial number of digital locks required for over thirty fire rated doors. Lever operated with intumescent packs, these locks will secure stores, sluice rooms, and comms cupboards for years to come."
A luxury property dictates a trustworthy brand of closers. Whilst standard overhead closers were supplied to a wide variety of doors, some with electromagnetic door holders, the electromagnetic closers were GEZE. Our much-supplied TS4000E and EFS grace bedroom and corridor doors throughout the premises. Not forgetting the accompanying PSU transformer rectifiers of course.
Large project know-how
"Knowing they’re ARRONE from their elbow, our spec team isn’t a stranger to dealing with large scale projects. We knew that radiused hinges and radiused forend lockcases would be called for, along with radiused flush bolts. ARRONE lockcases are paired with an Access2 master key system with room for future expansion," says Door Controls.
A project of this size also dictated a phased supply. Four separate zones were outlined and called off, managed by the despatch team, with door numbered boxes delivered at the contactor’s convenience.
"Drawing on our experience we were able to blend the on-going requirements of Barchester Care, the site specifics, with the nuances of the contractor, recent updates to legislation, and new product developments."
