For this reason I'm prepared to get someone in. Involves taking old doors off, swapping door furniture over and obviously making new doors fit holes. Not solid doors so not as unwieldy as 'proper' door.
Does £50 each sound reasonable? (East Mids rates) - go with it or phone around for different fitter?
£50 per door including ironmongery etc is fair imo not one for the DIY'er its a **** of a job...
Hold on, how many doors?
Its not that bad a diy job to be fair but the right tools make it easy and they cost a fair bit, id pay 50 quid a door seems fair for the work and tooling involved.
Shouldn't take any longer than 1 hour for each door. £50/hour is decent money - wish you were near here - I'd do it for £40/door!
If you have an electric plane and a decent set of chisels it's not that bad a job. Just make sure your new doors are as close as possible to the required size. Lock block is often central in the door height on modern hollow core doors, but only one side so make sure you check which side it is
Also with hollow core doors, there's a 25-30mm strip of white wood down each side. This will need to take the hinges so be very careful how much you do plane off
Depends whether they are painted or veneered doors, how many, what your linings/frames are like, how fussy you're likely to be, eg perfect penny gap all round, likely ease of moving stops, access eg, stairs, furniture in the way, etc., parking, and how near the nearest caff is.
50 quid sounds like a good price for the chippy - for a run of fairly straightforward light doors. If you're happy with it I would go for it, and I reckon you can afford to be fussy at that price. imo
7 doors - by bye £350!
We had to do 14 in our house. Well worth paying for!
'Bye bye' even 🙄
I've done a few before with the FIL - hateful job.
The guy quoted me £40 last year.
Spoke to him this week and mentioned I called him last year - we decided to not get them done straight away hence the year long delay. Anyway he said he'd come round tomorrow to have a look at what he's dealing with. Texted tonight saying he's now busy and his rate is now £50 not £40...which he never mentioned in the week. So as well as not coming tomorrow it's also gone up a further £70...sounds like he doesn't want it to me.
You mean it sounds like he's not desperate for the work.
He might have priced it at 40 quid each when he didn't have too much on.
You mean it sounds like he's not desperate for the work.He might have priced it at 40 quid each when he didn't have too much on.
And even then it's a tedious couple of days.
The last time I hung a number of doors it was a dozen of those cardboard cored cheapos in two days.
I was just packing away my tools, glad to be finished, when the client pointed out the last one was upside down...
Swung 3 oak doors, got 2 to do tomorrow, but these are the double doors. Do hot to be right or they'll look shite when closed together. Then 5 handles.
Then the last bit of worktop.
Then the last bit of wiring.
Then finish the underfloor heating.
Then finish the patio.
It was only meant to take a few months, this'll be month 8.
