tazprime38
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Hi.
I need help with pricing up for hanging internal doors in the UK. I have charged around £50 a door which includes fitting of all door furniture with mortice locks or latches. Five of these doors were hollow doors that required cutting down and then taking out the thin slither of wood frame left in the doors and cleaning out old glue. Then I planed the finish panel off of both sides of the pieces that were cut from edges or ends of the doors and glued and clamped these into the doors. Then these were fitted with some final trimming using Ts55.
These were going in old existing frames that were not all square due to settlement. Doors were fitted with two hinges each.
I also had a couple of timber framed glass doors to do which required trimming down with the ts55. These had mortice locks fitted.
I had to adjust all the existing doorstops too. On one door the opening was about 34" so I made a door frame from scratch which included a small panel above the door. This was 8" deep. The new door opening was now 30". The actual doorway depth was about 18" so the rest of it I had to line with mdf with the edge rounded over.
This frame including panel above door was fitted with architrave which had to be ripped down to fit all sides except the hinge side as this door is in a corner.
The bathroom door I had to do twice as the floor sloped down from the perimeter and hinged side. So I fitted the door that had a 10mm gap at the bottom when the door was fully opened. When the door was closed there was a small gap on the hinged side and it increased to about an inch on the lock side. Customer did not like this so I suggested that I could fit rising but hinges and would have to reglue one of the offcuts from another door to the bottom of the door and trim accordingly. There would still be a gap as rising but hinges only allow for about 10mm rise. Customer wanted this done.
So seven doors in total and five hollow type doors. Two timber framed glass doors. One door frame built and fitted plus mdf door lining and architrave as explained.
For this I billed customer £410.00 . I think this is a fair price but customer expected £25 a door.
What do you guys especially UK based charge for hanging doors where all extra work is involved like above?
regards
tazprime
I need help with pricing up for hanging internal doors in the UK. I have charged around £50 a door which includes fitting of all door furniture with mortice locks or latches. Five of these doors were hollow doors that required cutting down and then taking out the thin slither of wood frame left in the doors and cleaning out old glue. Then I planed the finish panel off of both sides of the pieces that were cut from edges or ends of the doors and glued and clamped these into the doors. Then these were fitted with some final trimming using Ts55.
These were going in old existing frames that were not all square due to settlement. Doors were fitted with two hinges each.
I also had a couple of timber framed glass doors to do which required trimming down with the ts55. These had mortice locks fitted.
I had to adjust all the existing doorstops too. On one door the opening was about 34" so I made a door frame from scratch which included a small panel above the door. This was 8" deep. The new door opening was now 30". The actual doorway depth was about 18" so the rest of it I had to line with mdf with the edge rounded over.
This frame including panel above door was fitted with architrave which had to be ripped down to fit all sides except the hinge side as this door is in a corner.
The bathroom door I had to do twice as the floor sloped down from the perimeter and hinged side. So I fitted the door that had a 10mm gap at the bottom when the door was fully opened. When the door was closed there was a small gap on the hinged side and it increased to about an inch on the lock side. Customer did not like this so I suggested that I could fit rising but hinges and would have to reglue one of the offcuts from another door to the bottom of the door and trim accordingly. There would still be a gap as rising but hinges only allow for about 10mm rise. Customer wanted this done.
So seven doors in total and five hollow type doors. Two timber framed glass doors. One door frame built and fitted plus mdf door lining and architrave as explained.
For this I billed customer £410.00 . I think this is a fair price but customer expected £25 a door.
What do you guys especially UK based charge for hanging doors where all extra work is involved like above?
regards
tazprime