Door rubbing on carpet

moneyistooshorttomention

macman wrote: »

How is 'Mr Partial Fitter' supposed to know until he arrives whether the door will require easing or not? He's never seen the property before and has no idea if the room was previously carpeted or not.

He doesn't in all likelihood.

All the carpet fitters I've ever used (ie "full fitting service" guys) just told me "We don't know if your door will need adjusting or no....but IF IT DOES then we will charge you £x extra for it" and they then found out at the time whether it needed it or no.

In the event, I seem to recall that they usually did have to shorten my doors accordingly, as I tended to choose decent thickness carpets with underlay with them.

As I recall, the only time I didn't have to have a door shortened was when I bought one of those cheapo "bedroom quality" carpets for a bedroom (big mistake, as that turned out to be).

I guess a good carpet-fitter knows very well from experience that (at least on cheap level houses) he will, almost certainly, have to adjust a door unless it is only "bedroom quality" foam-backed carpet that is going in place. Standard type quality carpet and its underlay probably notches up in their brain as "Vast majority of experience on these has taught us we will have to shorten customers door".

As to "he's never seen the property before"....oh really....he definitely will (or someone else in his firm will) because they've been out there measuring up to see what size carpet is needed.

Dan-Dan

Most fitters are self emplyed money , usually they wont be an employee of the carpert outlet

moneyistooshorttomention

I've no idea of what their employment status is. I've tended to assume the carpet firm employed them. I would still hold to the view they "know" how the house is....even if they haven't been there before and even if they are on a self-employed basis.

Reason being...the carpet firm has a responsibility to liaise with them as to how the house is. If the carpet firm doesn't fulfil their responsibilities, then that's down to them (ie the carpet firm) and not the customer to "bear the brunt".

I've been surprised on a different type of job done on my current house to find the firm concerned was "employing" the person concerned with some of the work on a "self-employed" basis. I still went to the firm concerned and have treated it as if he were their employee and they are responsible for what he does.

I suspect a different firm hereabouts also had their employees on a self-employed basis when I think of it. The same applied. I went to the firm concerned and it was up to them to deal with things as far as I was concerned.

sjoh0961

Thanks for the advice everyone.

Looks like I'll be taking the planing option, then, which seems to be the consensus.

On the subject of the fitter, they came to measure up before fitting. When they came to fit, I wasn't there, and I think they sensed my wife didn't know exactly what was what, so just sacked off the door trimming to save themselves the hassle.

Lesson learnt.

Thanks again,

Tim

moneyistooshorttomention

In that case, I'd be onto the firm telling them they "forgot" part of the job, ie that door-trimming.

From your post, it sounds as if the firm DO provide the full service (ie including door-trimming), so don't let them get away with "forgetting" part of it. Why do it yourself when they should have?

greyteam1959

sjoh0961 wrote: »

Thanks for the advice everyone.

Looks like I'll be taking the planing option, then, which seems to be the consensus.

On the subject of the fitter, they came to measure up before fitting. When they came to fit, I wasn't there, and I think they sensed my wife didn't know exactly what was what, so just sacked off the door trimming to save themselves the hassle.

Lesson learnt.

If you are going to plane the door.....
Mark with a pencil how much you want off the door.
Take it off the door frame ( obviously !!) leaving the hinges attached to the door.
Stand the door on its long edge & get astride ( !! ) the door.
Using sharp plane work in a downwards motion towards the centre of the door.
Then turn the door over & do the same again.
If you try & plane right along the door bottom from edge to edge you could end up splitting the edge of the door as your plane runs over the end.
Then your have a mess to sort out.
HTH

moneyistooshorttomention

Own personal update on door-shortening front, carpet fitter duly just fitted a carpet and was a "complete" fitter, so shortened the door. Two attempts (with his little electric gizmo) later and I have just realised he hasn't properly completed the job and the catch end is dragging a bit on the carpet as door comes to about a 1' from the opening back to door opening:mad:

I wondered why he made a comment to do with my doors, but it wasn't actually to effect of "I haven't quite done my job properly":(.

Looks like I'm going to have to get my all-pupose handyman I have to just plane a little bit manually off the base of the door at the catch end?(good job he is coming in again anyway, as I'd obviously not pay specially for something I have already paid for included in carpet cost!).

susanwillow

We had this problem when we bought thicker carpets and we took the door off to plane the bottom. To be honest it was off and on and off again several times (as we didn't want to take too much off and be left with a gap) but fitting it back on to the frame straight didn't seem to be a problem.