Hotels sell an impression, and the entrance is where it starts. A guest pulls up under the porte-cochere, walks through the doors, and forms an opinion before they reach the desk. Behind that, the property runs 24 hours a day on doors that never get a night off.
All Pro Door Repair services hotels, motels and hospitality properties across Dallas-Fort Worth. Here’s what needs attention on a property that can never close.
Entrances and the first impression
The main entrance is the highest-visibility door you own and one of the highest-cycle. Guests, luggage carts, staff and deliveries all move through it around the clock, and luggage carts are hard on thresholds and door bottoms in a way normal foot traffic isn’t.
What fails: closers that lose fluid and start slamming or stop pulling doors closed, pivots that wear until a door drags, exit devices that stop latching, and thresholds that get chewed up by cart wheels. On a property where guests are arriving at 2am, a slamming entry door is a noise complaint from every room near the lobby.
We repair and replace closers, pivots, exit devices, continuous hinges, thresholds, and full storefront entry door assemblies.
Lobby glazing, porte-cochere glass and curb appeal
Hotel lobbies are glass. It’s what makes them feel open, and it’s what photographs well on a booking site. Cracked, fogged or mismatched glass reads as a tired property in a business where guests are comparing photos before they book.
We handle commercial glass and glazing, storefront glass replacement, glass partition walls for meeting rooms and business centers, and window security film on ground-floor glass.
Water is the other one. Storefront leaks in a hotel lobby put water on polished floors where guests walk with luggage, and the ceiling stain it leaves behind is visible to everyone who checks in.
North Texas hail is a routine exposure for hospitality properties, and it usually hits glazing and exterior doors in the same storm.
Back of house, service entrances and loading
The guest side is half the building. Behind it there’s a receiving door, a trash and recycling area, a laundry entrance and usually a service corridor with hollow metal doors running the length of it.
These doors run constantly on a 24-hour operation and get propped, kicked and hit with carts. Hollow metal frames rack out of square, closers give out, and doors stop latching, which matters because service corridor doors are frequently part of the property’s separation between guest areas and back of house.
Larger properties with a loading area have overhead doors, covered on our commercial overhead door page. Properties with gated parking or a secured service yard have gates, covered on our gate repair page.
Working around guests
This is the hospitality constraint that shapes everything. There’s no closed day. There’s no slow hour that’s actually quiet. And loud work outside a guest room at 9am generates complaints.
We schedule around occupancy and work after hours and weekends. For anything in a guest-facing area, the goal is getting in and out in a window that doesn’t collide with check-in, check-out or an event in the ballroom. We answer emergency calls 24/7, which for a hotel is not a nice-to-have.
Common questions from hotel operators and chief engineers
Can you work overnight so guests aren’t disturbed?
Yes. After hours and weekend service is standard for us, and on hospitality properties it’s usually the right call.
Our lobby entry slams and we’re getting noise complaints. Fixable?
Usually with an adjustment. Closers have separate swing and latch speed controls, and most slamming is a setting rather than a failed part. A closer that’s leaking fluid does need replacing.
How quickly can broken lobby glass be secured?
Same day in most cases. We board up to secure the opening and schedule the permanent glass once the panel is available, so the property isn’t left open.
Can one company cover the entrance, the lobby glass, the service doors and the gate?
Yes, and that’s the practical reason to call us. Entry doors, glazing, overhead doors and gates are all in-house.
Get a hospitality property assessment in DFW
All Pro Door Repair has been family owned and operated since 2001. We’re fully insured, our trucks are stocked so most calls finish on the first visit, and every technician carries at least five years of field experience. Estimates are free and up front.
Call (972) 624-1515 or request a free estimate.