Thanks all for your experience

Doesn’t sound like I am being ripped off although I may now consider composite

Interesting reading as I’m looking at a composite door myself. Just had a price back from my pal and it seems they’ve gone up significantly in the last few months. When I asked him a while back he thought £4/500 should get us what we wanted but he’s just told me it’ll be £750.

This is door and casing at trade price + vat, fitted for free.

It does seem. Expensive, I just had our barn doors replaced in France, 3 metres wide by 2.5 metres high in hardwood with proper joints and the original hinges restored at a Blacksmiths and it came to €1200.

I was gobsmacked how cheap it was! I’d budgeted for 3.5k!

Might paint my 110 year old door one more time then.