carpenter , new doors?

missbargain

Yeah, PM me too!!! I am ashamed to publicly say the price we were charged for supplying and hanging one external and one internal door. All I can ask is give us his contact number, please!

We also had a guy coming here to give us the quote for the same 2 doors (so one external back of the house door and one internal), do you know how much they quoted? £3500 + VAT. If I just haven't fainted there and then. And it is not with the expensive locks and letter slots that you need for the front of the house. It was your good quality oak door (I think pine for the internal), with one bogstandard handle and a keyhole. Oh, yes, and a catflap.
We did shop around, but still we were unable to get the quote that was any near the amounts mentioned here.

Unfortunatelly, in some areas of South East, the builders/carpenters charge by the postcode. The more "desirable" or "affluent" your postcode looks, the more you get charged. I would perhaps understand this if they also rented expensive workshops in those postcodes, but they often come from outside London, in their beaten up crammed van and with their hand tools, with their own garage used as their workshop.
We even had some Polish builders who played this game (they are quick learners those guys) and it goes like this: enter Wimbledon - 2000 pounds; enter Chiswick - 2500 pounds; enter Barons Court - 3000 pounds; enter Kensington 35000 pounds. By the time they reach Chelsea and Mayfair, the quote has as many digits as their phone number. Cowboys.


I still have the first quote in case someone does not believe me (because it sounds unbelieavable, but totally true). Needless to say, the quote was rejected.

Bishop_Basher

Some 'funny' replies on this thread, the blind leading the blind.

Prices for hanging internal doors can be from £25 upwards.

Obviously the more doors the cheaper the price. I charge £40 a door, and do deals for 5 doors or more.
Prices also depend on hour far I have to travel etc.

I could only dream of charging £100 a door!! :rotfl:

fatwallets

for manchester area try [EMAIL="jcjoinery01@yahoo.co.uk"]jcjoinery01@yahoo.co.uk[/EMAIL]

excellent joiner no messing about and £30 a door hung i'm happy!

LandyAndy

Alias_Omega wrote: »

Measure the doors, then get onto the B&Q website.

Our doors are 78" x 30"", and on the B&Q website these are exactly the same size @ £40 a door for glazed.

Now, im no expert, but im sure i can take a door off, take the hinges off the old door, measure the distance from the ends, and chip the hinges out.

Then drill the door catch out, and chisel it in.

There is a very good video guide on video jug.

I would try one door, and see how you get on..

Quite. I did 5 doors downstairs in our house last year and it took me about a day and a half with a fair amount of trimming. Nothing difficult if you take your time.

sodamnfunky

Bishop_Basher wrote: »

Some 'funny' replies on this thread, the blind leading the blind.

Prices for hanging internal doors can be from £25 upwards.

Obviously the more doors the cheaper the price. I charge £40 a door, and do deals for 5 doors or more.
Prices also depend on hour far I have to travel etc.

I could only dream of charging £100 a door!! :rotfl:

I know of people down here charging £70 per door, and they are getting it. I could'nt charge anybody that, my conscience(sp) would'nt let me.

missbargain

How come all you guys who charge 40 pounds per door, even 75 pounds per door never come down to London?


If you came to London in boom times, you did not have to dream to charge 100 pounds per door, it would have been the sweet reality for you.

I mean, tell me honestly, 3500 + VAT pounds (yes, three thousand five hundred pounds) quote to supply and install two doors, how much out of that quote is the installation cost? Huge, I would say, absolutely huge! I remember my husband and I sitting there gobsmacked, if it was not written down and confirmed, we would have seriously doubted our hearing abilities.

I have never seen the normal, good quality, full wood door (not the hand carved one or anything like that) cost more than say, 300-500 hundred pounds. So the price for 2 doors = 600-1000 pounds. Work out for yourself how much is the installation cost, then? I am not making this up, I had a written quote. Actually, if anyone is interested I can write the company's name, it is the London Door Company, there you are, just so you don't waste your time calling them if you can't cough up a few thousand quid for a couple of doors.

I did not want to say this, but at the end we found the cheapest carpenter we could find, and they charged us 850 pounds to supply and install one door of bogstandard quality, plus to cut down one already existent doors and hang it back again. And to do us such "cheap" quote (their words), they had to have cash on hand. This was the middle of last year, still high times.

Yes, I used to hear stories about these cheap carpenters, but I never, ever saw any of them appear in my area, no matter how much I searched.
Funny that, must be something in the water here that makes them quodriple their prices as soon as they cross certain border.

karenw

I had 2 living room doors (fitted only) for £35 a door, the guy who did it has now broke his back and give up working i need another 7 doors doing :eek:

fatwallets

for manchester area try jcjoinery01@yahoo.co.uk

excellent joiner no messing about and £30 a door hung i'm happy!

sak46

Hello

We are about to have 8 unfinished oak veneer doors fitted at £30 per door, I was wondering if anyone could recommend a varnish for these doors, we have looked at the Ronseal perfect finish varnish in light oak , can anybody recommend this or offer any advice on other products that we may use

Thanks for any help

Sak 46

JPM_2

I used Danish Oil goes on a treat, need's 2 to 3 coats, look's great.