How Much Does It Cost To Fit Door Furniture?



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Cost to Fit Door Furniture




Job

Description
Labour
1Fit a small morticed catch and handles or a longer mortice lock and knobs to one door.  He will charge for half a day.
£90

The small catch and handles will cost an additional… 
£20
2The same job to the three doors in the hallway. Still half a day plus £60 materials
£150
3The same job to all 7 internal doors. This will be one day + £140
 £230


“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 on Interior Door Handles and Locks


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.


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