How Much Does It Cost To Hang a Door?



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Cost to Hang a Door




Job

Description
Labour
1You want your chap to collect one door with its furniture, hang it and tip the old one. Simple, he will charge half a day.
£90

We are assuming you are choosing cheap cheerful unglazed doors for each of these 3 jobs.That’s doors at £30 each and furniture at £20. So materials and tipping for the above is 
£60
2If you want the 3 hall doors collecting and hanging, it will take him a day.
£175

Plus materials, tipping etc. for the above
£170
3You want 7 new interior doors fitting, collected with their furniture by the chippie and the old ones tipped.
This could take one man 3 days. (See the end of our article below)
£525

Plus materials, tipping etc. for the above
£385


“Labour” at £175 a day (tradesman) £100 (labourer), includes incidental fixings etc. and tipping charges. “Materials” if mentioned, are larger things (a boiler) and stuff only you can choose (tiles etc).  Also VAT must be added all round.

Information Sheet on Internal Doors


Our advice is if you change one you should change them all, so they match. That means the furniture as well.

Also think about the way they open. Do some annoy you, should they have always opened the other way? If you do change the “hang” though, will you still be able to reach the light switch?

Search the internet and local “sheds” and choose the style of door and it’s furniture and any glazing. Make sure you are searching “internal doors” because they are thinner than external ones. Don’t buy anything until you are certain it is the correct size. This is why you are employing a chippie!

Furniture

Internal doors don’t usually lock but they do have the “catch”. This used to be quite a large morticed affair so knobs were possible.

Nowadays, you can get short 2” (50mm) ones. These work just as well and cost virtually nothing BUT the hole for the knob/handle is very near the door edge.

This doesn’t matter if a handle is fitted because this is designed to keep your hand away from the edge.

A knob however, fitted onto this kind of “catch” will put your knuckles in exactly the right position to have the skin taken off them by the door frame.

Fit these on Monday, you’ll look like Henry Cooper by Friday. (So…… I’m a boxing dinosaur, I bet none of these useless English lumps that think they can box today, could have sat Clay on his posterior like “our Enry” did that night…… AND Clay was only saved by the bell)!

If you really want knobs you must get catches which are long enough to position your hand far enough away from the doors edge.

Soft or hardwood?

Softwood may well be full of knots so will have to be painted. Hardwood looks better varnished or waxed.

Who is doing the “painting”?

Maybe the chippie isn’t the best man for the job.

Will it be glazed?

Legally any door glazing lower than 1500mm from the hall floor will have to be safety glass. (That’s most internal door glazing by the way)!

Will the glass be “obscure” (I don’t mean somehow just a bit quirky). This is how glaziers describe “frosted” glass.

This is what the chippie will be considering

His main concern will be where to do all the planing down. The best/cleanest place is outside the front door but this means a lot of coming and going (possibly twice for each door) and four of them may be upstairs. He may have to keep covering his tools every time he comes inside (rain and/or villains). All this takes time, so does cleaning up the shavings, which might be all over the street by 5 o’clock. (See…. you never thought of any of this did you)?


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