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TS Designs Doors — fit once, built for life.

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:19:51 GMT

When specifying doors for demanding environments, the upfront cost is only part of the picture. The real question is what will that door cost you over its lifetime?

Too often, lower-cost options such as timber or standard steel doors are selected based on initial price alone. However, these solutions typically require regular maintenance, repairs, and eventual replacement, driving up costs over time and creating ongoing disruption.

The Fit-and-Forget Advantage

TS Designs’ doors are engineered with a different philosophy, fit and forget

No ongoing maintenance
No repainting or corrosion treatment
No premature replacement cycles

Once installed, the door simply performs, year after year, delivering a virtually limitless service life.

Aluminium/Stainless Steel vs Timber vs Standard Steel

Timber doors

Prone to rot, warping, and weather damage
Require frequent maintenance and replacement
Poor long-term value despite low upfront cost

Standard steel doors

Susceptible to corrosion and coating failure
Ongoing need for inspection, repair, and repainting
Limited lifespan in harsh environments

TS Designs doors

Corrosion-resistant aluminium construction
Designed for continuous use in harsh environments
Zero maintenance requirements
Backed by an industry-leading 20-year warranty

Whole-Life Cost Comparison

Door Type Upfront Cost Maintenance Cost Replacement Cost Whole-Life Cost

Timber Door £ £££ £££ ££££

Standard Steel Door ££ ££ £££ ££££

TS Designs Door ££ X X ££

The Best Value

· TS Designs doors are the best value over time.

· By eliminating maintenance, reducing replacement cycles, and delivering long-term performance, our doors significantly lower your total cost of ownership while also reducing your carbon footprint.

A Smarter Investment

If you’re responsible for infrastructure, utilities, or healthcare environments, the choice is clear:

· Choose a door that lasts

· Choose a door that performs

· Choose a door that reduces cost over its lifetime

Choose TS Designs, fit once, built for life.

Get in touch to see how we can help reduce your costs.

Staff Interview Meet Hasan Saeed - Senior Design Engineer

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:39:14 GMT

Meet Hasan Saeed - Senior /design Engineer

Find out who he is and why he joined TS Designs

Working with Contractors

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:20:24 GMT

Working with Contractors - The Challenges of Manufacturing and Installing Security-Rated Doors for Electrical Substations

Electrical substations are the bedrock of the UK's critical national infrastructure, forming the backbone of power distribution networks. Protecting them from unauthorised access, vandalism, and potential sabotage is essential to maintaining energy security. Security-rated doors play a vital role in safeguarding these facilities, but their manufacture and installation present unique challenges.

LPCB Testing What is it and what does it mean for you?

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:38:40 GMT

When it comes to security doors, quality and reliability aren’t optional, they’re essential. That’s why, over the past seven years we have undertaken a programme of certification for our stainless-steel doors with the LPCB (Loss Prevention Certification Board) part of the BRE (Building Research

Establishment). Their security testing programme is one of the most trusted and rigorous certification schemes in the global security door industry and has become the gold standard for perimeter security.

Proud to continue our support for Rennie Grove Peace

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:05:50 GMT

We’re excited to continue supporting Rennie Grove Peace Hospice throughout 2026, an incredible organisation providing vital care for people living with life‑limiting illnesses across our local communities.

There are many ways anyone can help support them and a number of events to attend that will help raise awareness and funding for them. The highlights include:

Question of Sport
Corporate Golf Day
Strictly Come Hospice

You can explore the full events list on their website Fundraising events - Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care and share it with colleagues, friends, and family.

Whilst it is important to us to help the charity it is also good to understand what impact the support has.

In 2025 corporate support of the hospice helped deliver:

4,398 face‑to‑face Living Well appointments
13,504 home visits
Support from over 1,700 volunteers

A powerful reminder of why this work matters.

If you want to get involved just have a look at their website and contact them directly.

There are also volunteering opportunities throughout 2026, led by Angela Beetlestone. If you’re interested in giving your time, this is a great way to make a meaningful difference.

We wanted to share these opportunities with you because supporting Rennie Grove Peace Hospice is something we’re proud to champion again this year. Whether you join an event, enter a team, or simply pass the details on to colleagues and friends, it will help to extend vital care to those who need it most.

Challenges of Installing a Security-Rated Door on a Building Site

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:34:05 GMT

Installing a security-rated door is not a straightforward task.

Installing a security-rated door is not a straightforward task. Unlike standard doors, these are engineered to resist forced entry and/or fire, and their performance depends heavily on correct installation. On a busy construction site, several unique challenges can complicate the process. All of these issues MUST be fully recognised within site specific Risk Assessments and Method Statements.

Read full article here...

Constructionline – what is it and why does it matter.

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:53:46 GMT

Constructionline – what is it and why does it matter.

Continuing our series of posts explaining what the various accreditations we have are, this week we focus on #Constructionline.

Constructionline is used by the construction industry throughout the UK. It is a database that can be accessed by over 2000 organisations including central government, local authorities & main contractors all of which require you to be accredited before beginning the tender process. In being accredited with Constructionline a business has to proves that it is stable and has a proven history in their specific field.

For our customers it provides another level of credibility not only about our products, but about the business as well.

Constructionline helps both sides of the deal bypass typical problems associated with the tender process, saving everyone time, money and hassle in the process.

Constructionline - Pre-qualified Construction Contractors & Companies

To find out more about this and our other accreditations please contact Ben Dawes.

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TS Designs will be at Utility Week Live 2026

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:28:10 GMT

Utility Week Live – Birmingham NEC, 19-20 May 2026

With investment in infrastructure and utilities at a 100 year high, the demands being placed on every aspect of construction in the sector are immense.

Utility Week Live is an opportunity for us to demonstrate our class leading security doors to the sector and allow customers to find out why our doors are genuinely “Fit and Forget”.

Come and see us on stand E18 at the NEC in May.

https://www.utilityweeklive.co.uk/

If you want to find out more information on our products before the exhibition please contact Ben Dawes benjamin.dawes@ts-designs.com or call 01494 976976

Staff Interview Meet Ben Dawes - Sales Manager

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 15:59:07 GMT

Meet Ben Dawes - Sales Manager

Find out what he is all about and why he joined TS Designs

The International Security Expo 2025

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 15:55:32 GMT

This years International Security Expo was the first time we had exhibited. See more about the event , our stand and the LPCB Live Testing Demo, featuring our doors.

However strong and robust a security door is, it is ultimately reliant on the effectiveness of the locking mechanism to deliver security.

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 09:42:28 GMT

However strong and robust a security door is, it is ultimately reliant on the effectiveness of the locking mechanism to deliver security.

At TS Designs, we also work to ensure that any locking mechanism we fit to our doors has the same longevity as the doors themselves, in other words they will last a lifetime.

Over the years we have identified and now work with a number of high quality lock partners such as Tindall Engineering and Surelock McGill, but we have also designed a number of our own locking systems to meet customer specified requirements. These products have been developed to assist in providing access to owners of large building stocks where padlocks are commonly used.

The key to all of these solutions is meeting the customer needs. All these products are executed in 304 grade stainless steel.

Our hardware solutions include:

external cylinder protection

standalone locking options

external access devices actuating other proprietary furniture

A good example is the TS230. The TS230 is a dual key access device commonly used on IDNO substations.

This device allows two parties access to a shared building with their own suited padlock system. Removal of either padlock allows entry, whilst crucially retaining the other party’s padlock within the device. This ensures that the other party can never remove your padlock from site thereby protecting your suite. Both padlocks are also shrouded to protect against cropping.

All our solutions have been developed to provide a higher level of security than the security rating of the door itself.

To find out more about our doors and hardware get in contact or speak to Ben Dawes on 07885 619002

Reduce the through-life costs of your security doors

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 14:01:57 GMT

Reduce the through-life costs of your security doors with theonly maintenance free doors in the UK.

TS Designs has been producing security doors that are maintenance free for over twenty-five years. Our products are fully bespoke and manufactured to your specification.

Lower through-life costs.

Containing nothing organic or ferrous, thereby completely eliminating any possibility of rot or rust, there is no limit to the potential lifespan of our products.

Lower carbon footprint.

Aside from the lifespan of the products, they are all fully deconstructable and recyclable.

There can be no doorset with a lower carbon footprint than one than one that doesn’t need to be maintained or replaced.

Find out how we can help reduce the cost of replacing and installing security doors that also reduce your carbon footprint, get in touchand our team will work with you to develop a bespoke solution for your organisation.

TS Designs - The History

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 10:43:32 GMT

Established nearly thirty years ago by the current MD, Geoff Mabon, the business came about when Geoff, with an engineering background, was talking about the challenge of designing an access door that needed very little maintenance. The door in question was on a radar station at the top of a mountain and was subjected to the worst that the British weather could throw at it.

TS Designs then set out to provide bespoke, maintenance free security doors to our launch customers National Air Traffic Services and Norweb (now Electricity North West Limited). Since then, we have been ever present within the utilities sector having installed doors onto over 10,000 substations for clients such as Electricity North West, Scottish Power Energy Networks, National Grid, National Grid Electricity Distribution, Scottish and Southern Energy, along with many other ICPs and IDNOs. We have also supplied and fitted doors to a vast range of other building types including hospitals, schools, residential housing blocks, data centres, oil refineries, police stations, nuclear sites and even an armoury.

The concept was to use materials that were not affected by adverse weather, not subject to rot or rust and were also able to provide appropriate levels of security.

During this time we have continually developed and refined our products to meet the evolving needs of our customers. As a design company at heart, we will engineer solutions to any of our customers’ needs. This had led to our ranges of lockable cable access ports, louvre ventilation systems, door stays, bespoke locking solutions and many more – all manufactured in house.

The result was a comprehensive range of doors that are maintenance free and fundamentally “fit and forget”. Doors fitted almost 30 years ago, to this day have required no maintenance. The result was a significant amount of interest from utility providers in the UK, all who were looking to reduce their long-term costs. These businesses have vast building stocks and maintenance of their physical estates is an ongoing battle akin to painting the Forth Road Bridge. A product which allows buildings to stand long term without the need for programmed maintenance is a clear winner when it comes to through life cost of ownership.

In 2019 we introduced our comprehensive range of stainless-steel security doors rated B5 (SR2+) and C5 (SR3) against LPS 1175. Staying true to our maintenance free ethos, we are the only door supplier to certify our entire range in either 304 or 316 grade stainless steel thereby eliminating the possibility of rust which is inevitable in any product manufactured from mild steel.

As a business, TS Designs has always been very aware of the need to minimise waste, both during the manufacturing process and within the products themselves. The result of this approach is a product portfolio that helps to reduce not only the embedded carbon in a product, but also the lifecycle carbon footprint of each product. With increasing carbon reporting requirements, TS Designs are proud to announce that all of our products have been independently carbon certified, ensuring all our clients can identify the full life carbon impact of each door.

Sustainability is at the heart of what we do. There is no doorset with a smaller lifetime carbon footprint than one with an unlimited life span!