How Much Does It Cost To Fit/Install French Doors?



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Cost to Install French Doors





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job

Description
labour
1Replacing a rotten 4 foot wide French door with a new off the shelf UPVc one. This 1.5 days for 2 men plus “the extras”
£490

Plus materials etc. for the above
£500
2To convert an existing window to a French door by removing the brickwork underneath. The new door will be the same size as job 1. This will take 2 men 3 days plus “the extras”
£1100

Plus materials etc. for the above
£600
3You want to create a completely new opening and fit the same sized door as above. This will take 2 men 4 days plus “the extras”
£1925

Plus materials etc. for the above (inc. council fees)
£1200
4If you want to enlarge an existing door or window opening sideways and fit this same sized door. It will cost about the same as above£3125
5Same as jobs 1-4 but with a fully glazed wooden door.  An additional:
 £725
6Same as jobs 1-4 but with multiple (Georgian), double glazed wooden doors. An additional:
 £900


“Labour” at £175 a day (tradesman) £100 (labourer), includes incidental fixings etc. and tipping. “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 the Cost of Fitting French Doors


There are two types of French doors, (wooden ones & UPVc ones). Both types are hung like a normal door, just in pairs.

Even when buying them “off the peg” in fixed sizes, wooden ones cost a lot more to buy than UPVc. They also then take longer to fix, because they don’t come ready hung. In fact the frame is bought separately to the doors. When hung, all the furniture needs fixing, they then need glazing (the glass has to bought separately) and then of course, painting. All this extra stuff costs a lot of cash money!

Whether PVCu or wooden, they can only be made to a finite width, UPVc up to about 6’ (1.8 m). and wooden up to about 4’6” (1.37m). Any wider than this and the weight of the glass will distort the door casement. Normal height, including the frame is 7’ (2.1m) but they can technically be made as tall as you like. A “normal” French door size, if there is such a thing is 2.1m x 1.2m. Legally you must fit safety glass in doors, if any part of the glass is within 1500mm of the floor.

If they are replacements, no permissions are needed if fitted by “FENSA” registered installers. If not, “building regs”. will have to be informed.

If you intend to convert an existing window to a set of doors, planning permission may be needed.

If you are creating a new opening, or extending an existing one sideways, both “planning” and “building regs.” will definitely have to be involved.

Planning restrictions are at best complicated, at worse farcical.

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