Rough cost of creating a doorway...

Willowpop

Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone can advise.
I appreciate that I will not be able to get an exact figure, but I'm just trying to gauge a ballpark idea before I get someone round to quote for the job. I don't want to waste their time if it's going to be way out of my price range.
I would like a door creating in a (cavity) wall in my kitchen. Just a single door, not French doors or anything big. It would need a lintel I guess as it's just wall at the moment.
How much roughly do you think this would cost?
And possibly a silly question, do I contact a builder and then the double glazing people for the door, or would one person be able to make the hole and put a door in it?

I've never don't anything like this before so genuinely have no idea if we are talking £500 or £5k.

Would anyone have a rough idea please?

AndyMc.....

Brick or stud wall?

Load bearing or non load bearing?

Willowpop

It's brick and an outside wall.
Hope that's the info you want... I'm not especially well versed in wall speak.

Annie1960

Get a builder who will be able to knock through, fit a lintel, and get it checked by building control. If it's an outside wall it may be a cavity wall so may need two lintels. Get this checked before you knock it down.

A builder may also be able to get you a door at trade prices.

To knock through an internal door and fit lintel with visit from building control and plastering afterwards cost me about £600-700 - I can't recall the exact figure. It also included removing the bricks that had been knocked through and removing a radiator that was in the way, and a couple of electric sockets.

I did not have a door put in.

I'm in the south east - it may be cheaper if you live elsewhere.

Willowpop

Thankyou Annie,
That's helpful info...it's definitely a cavity wall.. that much I know, so yeah I guess it'd need 2 lintels wouldn't it...Didn't think of that!
I'm in the south east too, so your price would probably be similar to what I'd end up paying too.
So going off your inside wall, it is possible that my outside one might not be crazy expensive and definitely something I could save up for.

Doozergirl

No, your price would not be similar. They're barely comparable jobs.

If your house is brick, it will need to be neatened up. Bricks will need to be toothed out and new, neat edges created unless you like the look of the edges of bricks that have been cut through around your new door. The cavity needs closing and then the walls plastering internally. The floor will need levelling where the walls were and then finishing. Skirting needs to be replaced into reveals.

Doorsteps? What is the floor level like between inside and out?

A decent quality external door costs a few hundred pounds. What do you want to put in it? Wood? uPVC?

Cost of labour, cost of building control at a couple of hundred pounds, cost of door plus materials, decorating?

The cost of your door will impact heavily on the final cost but it's a pretty labour intensive job.

Willowpop

My bad. I didn't mean my outside door would be a similar price to the previous poster's, I meant that the cost of similar jobs generally would likely be similar as we are both in the south east.
But thankyou doozergirl for listing all the different things that would need doing. That's all really helpful. Like you say, this would be very labour intensive which is why I wasn't at all sure what it would cost to make a hole and put a door in it.
What I have learned though is that a much simpler internal doorway is around £600. That would suggest that I'm looking at well over my 'is it more likely to be £500', but probably nowhere near my 'or is it going to be something crazy like £50k' query.
I'm going to hazard a guess at about 2 to 3k.
Wonder how close I am to the truth.

greenface

Just done one in Merseyside . was rendered so brickwork simple but done for 2k inc a bit of plaster inside . nothing to move & simple 2 xg comp white door no skirting would guess 3k max on yours if toothing (or teething) brickwork

FreeBear

Willowpop wrote: »

And possibly a silly question, do I contact a builder and then the double glazing people for the door, or would one person be able to make the hole and put a door in it?

Get one builder in to do the entire job from start to finish, What ever you do, don't allow a DG fitter (that works for any company with an A, E, M, S, or Z in the name) to do it - The ones I've seen can't be trusted to do a decent job just doing a replacement window, let alone anything that is structural.

Willowpop

Thankyou everyone, some great advice here.
Much appreciated.

TheCyclingProgrammer

You might be able to save yourself a small amount of money by getting an off the shelf door in a standard size then having your opening made to match it, rather than getting a bespoke measured door. Any DIY shed will do off the shelf uPVC doors and I know Wickes also do off the shelf composite doors, though I cannot speak to the quality of either!