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changilass
15-Oct-10, 19:12
Does anyone know of someone who can hang doors that won't mean I need to take out a second mortgage?
Please help, I will be muchly grateful.
Changi
i would like to know this as well! seriosly 30-40 quid a door?
i would like to know this as well! seriosly 30-40 quid a door?
I think that that is reasonable considering it takes over an hour and the door needs to be plained etc which requires special tools.
If that price is reasonable then I can give you the user name of someone on this forum that does jobs like that. I'm guessing he charges about that - maybe more:confused...
I think that that is reasonable considering it takes over an hour and the door needs to be plained etc which requires special tools.
If that price is reasonable then I can give you the user name of someone on this forum that does jobs like that. I'm guessing he charges about that - maybe more:confused...
30 or 40 Quid to fit a Door...........Now that is just silly. It takes 10 minutes and the so called specialist tool....a simple plane. If you use power tools you could fit it even quicker, after all there is only 8 screws to screw in and with a Power Screwdriver this only takes seconds.
No specialist tool required,just common sense!!
changilass
15-Oct-10, 21:48
I have commone sense but I tried with the bathroom door and it just don't hang right so need a 'man that does'.
Pierpoint is good at hanging Changi [lol]
orkneycadian
17-Oct-10, 02:50
30 or 40 Quid to fit a Door...........Now that is just silly. It takes 10 minutes and the so called specialist tool....a simple plane. If you use power tools you could fit it even quicker, after all there is only 8 screws to screw in and with a Power Screwdriver this only takes seconds.
:roll:
If it were this easy, then the OP needs no help! Just get on and DIY!
Presumably the poster above doesn't want a latch, or handles fitting, nor do they want the hinges rebating.
£30 - £40 = bloody bargain. Bite their hand off!
Let the clock start ticking. When the OP claims they have they have hung the door themselves, we'll tot up the hours and multiply by a sensible hourly rate!
Dog-eared
17-Oct-10, 09:15
There's a bit more to hanging doors than whizzing a few screws in.
I found out all about it when I hung four new doors last winter ! :D
The hinges need to be lined up accurately otherwise the door won't fit the doorhole !
Always hanged our doors; no problems.. that was until during a very busy period many years ago.
We had already hung the new kitchen door, the new inner porch door and thought, well it's getting late (a bit dark) but we've still got time to do the main front door; half glass in 9 inch panels, and half wood. Had to shave off some of the side, rebated the wood for the hinges - by now it was dark outside. Mrs Beks held the door upright whilst I used a garden spade to lift it into position to screw in the hinges.. Done.
A very quiet moment occurred, Mrs Beks murmurs "I think the door's inside out".
Using a torch from outside I could see that the glass panels were nice and smooth on the inside, whist on the outside there were surrounded by the ledges and set back; obvious she was right.. I must admit I was surprised that I kept quite calm; "oh blinking heck" I says, as I undo the screws, offer up the door the right way - which now need more shaving off in a different part.. screwed it on, and decided we would leave it for the night, and, using a bit of wire, closed the door..
Anyone can hang a door with a bit of hard work and time.
But if they're not willing/able to do it themselves why should they expect somebody else to do it on the cheap?
Joinery is a trade. People spend 4 years learning that trade to make good living at the end of it. They can then charge trade rates for professional jobs.
It winds me up when people want jobs like this, plastering a wall or moving a socket done but won't pay the going rate.
It stinks of the lack of respect vocational trades get nowadays. Would these people look for someone to fill a tooth or sort out a trapped nerve on the cheap?
Sunday morning rant.
I got Patrick McKenna to do ours, very resonible rates get him on 07867624037
changilass
17-Oct-10, 12:15
:roll:
If it were this easy, then the OP needs no help! Just get on and DIY!
Let the clock start ticking. When the OP claims they have they have hung the door themselves, we'll tot up the hours and multiply by a sensible hourly rate!
Hence why I asked the question in the first place and also typed the following:-
I have commone sense but I tried with the bathroom door and it just don't hang right so need a 'man that does'.
I got Patrick McKenna to do ours, very resonible rates get him on 07867624037
Thank you very much sadam, at last someone to answer the original question, will give him a ring and see what he says.
Use professionals? Hmmm..
Back in 1990 we employed a recommended building firm in Caithness to build two 20 ft x 13 ft extensions with cavity wall to each side of the croft house, involving knocking an opening through one gable end to make one extension accessible - the other end a garage. They also put in the new-type septic tank..
Years later - after the company had broken up, we discovered quite a few things wrong; on the underground drainage system to the septic tank they had not put in a simple bend, but a totally un-necessary junction; this regularly caused blockages and regularly needed clearing with rods.
Where they knocked an opening through the rubble wall they did not backfill above the lintels causing the rubble to slowly fall over the years, eventually causing a crack in the Skew and a leak..
I then discovered (when taking off the cladding about the doorway) that out of the five lintels; two were installed upside down!
The building inspector had insisted they put three layers of tiles at the base of the roof - since discovered they were simply shoved in and not fixed - they kept coming out.. discovered that although the loft space was supposed to be lagged, nearly half was totally uncovered..
At the time of building I was on crutches for three years, so not really able to check, although you expect value for money.. found that when we decided 8 years ago to change the garage into a lounge, that there was a seven inch difference between the walls near the house to those 20 feet away, hell of a job fitting a carpet!
Swings/roundabouts?
Use professionals? Hmmm..
Back in 1990 we employed a recommended building firm in Caithness to build two 20 ft x 13 ft extensions with cavity wall to each side of the croft house, involving knocking an opening through one gable end to make one extension accessible - the other end a garage. They also put in the new-type septic tank..
Years later - after the company had broken up, we discovered quite a few things wrong; on the underground drainage system to the septic tank they had not put in a simple bend, but a totally un-necessary junction; this regularly caused blockages and regularly needed clearing with rods.
Where they knocked an opening through the rubble wall they did not backfill above the lintels causing the rubble to slowly fall over the years, eventually causing a crack in the Skew and a leak..
I then discovered (when taking off the cladding about the doorway) that out of the five lintels; two were installed upside down!
The building inspector had insisted they put three layers of tiles at the base of the roof - since discovered they were simply shoved in and not fixed - they kept coming out.. discovered that although the loft space was supposed to be lagged, nearly half was totally uncovered..
At the time of building I was on crutches for three years, so not really able to check, although you expect value for money.. found that when we decided 8 years ago to change the garage into a lounge, that there was a seven inch difference between the walls near the house to those 20 feet away, hell of a job fitting a carpet!
Swings/roundabouts?
If the work was done by a certified builder within the last 10 years I think you're covered by the industry regulator in the same way as ABTA cover holidays that fall through.
Worth looking in to maybe?
EDIT - sorry, missed the 1990 bit!
If the work was done by a certified builder within the last 10 years I think you're covered by the industry regulator in the same way as ABTA cover holidays that fall through.
Worth looking in to maybe?
EDIT - sorry, missed the 1990 bit!
Yep, missed the deadline, but for a long time now, done my own DIY - by the book of course.. recently had a new kitchen and a new LPG range cooker, 'cos I was knackered with my recent knee op, Mrs Beks and a 63 year old female friend did all the work.. The Gas-safe bloke was very impressed with the enclosed 15 mm pipe through the 20 inch rubble wall, the girls (loosely speaking) had used all the proper gear: gas PTFE etc.. a VERY good job; plumbing and electrics too - all checked by a professional before final connections..
Sounds like a good business opportunity Beks,
Bekisman's Angels?
Golden Girls Plumbing and Heating?
Play your cards right, you might never have to work again. :cool:
Sounds like a good business opportunity Beks,
Bekisman's Angels?
Golden Girls Plumbing and Heating?
Play your cards right, you might never have to work again. :cool:
I call 'em GU (Geriatrics United) - trouble is they keep stopping for a cup of tea!
.................so does Tommy Walsh !!
..................Tea is a tool of the trades you know.
changilass
18-Oct-10, 20:03
All jokes aside, I am still looking for someone to hang my doors please.
craftyman
18-Oct-10, 21:50
Hi, Hanging a door is not just putting a piece of wood in a hole with the little metal hinges!! The door to function correctly must be fitted in to the opening, with space for the carpet, dressed with edges beveled to allow the closing edge to pass the door post without binding and to allow the finnished job to be painted / stained. then a new lock or latch fitted and if needs be the stops to be altered to the door to complete the job. this will take about 3 to 4 hours per door if done right and of course it the joiner is all tooled-up this has to be covered as well I would expect to pay a minimum £75 per door! for a quality job!:eek:
changilass
18-Oct-10, 22:20
Still looking for someone to FIT doors, not an explanation of how its done or the skill or tools required.
Please can anyone out there actually FIT the things for me.
By the time these bliddy things get fitted I will have no hair left.
Please will someone just take a bitty pity on a wee hapless soul and hang the bliddy doors please.
The fact that you have stated that you are not willing to pay £30-£40 per door probably means that theres not a joiner or a jobber out there willing to do it for less than that due to the time involved !!
Alice in Blunderland
19-Oct-10, 08:56
What about Mr Lennie on the org ? He seems to get very good praise in the recommendations section.
http://forum.caithness.org/showthread.php?t=122753
It may have been an outside door but it looks as though he has experience with doors ;)
Changi..... try Nicol MacLeod on 07716 318 672. He has done quite a bit of work for me recently - at short notice - and I am very pleased with the result - which included hanging doors!
He will be coming back to do more as he was committed to another client for certain dates which he told me about immediately and reassures me that he sticks to his promises as far as possible. :)
changilass
19-Oct-10, 11:16
The fact that you have stated that you are not willing to pay £30-£40 per door probably means that theres not a joiner or a jobber out there willing to do it for less than that due to the time involved !!
Where exactly did I say that, I think that if you actually read the thread properly, I havn't said half of what is being attributed to me.
I just want the bliddy doors hung, not a discussion on price, not a discussion about wether I should be able to do it myself easily, I would if I could, but I can't.
Now does anyone have some savlon and a spare tube of superglue, I have a bucket full of hair needs sticking back on to a very red and tender head.
changilass
19-Oct-10, 11:21
Thanks Alice and Torvaig, will try to contact both.
Have you tried mrlenie here on the .Org? He also did a great job on my door. Good price compared to most joiners as well.
changilass
19-Oct-10, 12:07
Cheers Logical, pm sent.
changilass
19-Oct-10, 12:19
Earliest Nicol McLeod could do the job is Christmas time.
Careers advisors should be telling folks to train as tradesmen, cos anytime we have ever needed one for any job they are like hens teeth.
changilass
19-Oct-10, 15:01
Yeeeehaaa
Mrlennie to the rescue, gonna get my doors done in about 3 weeks, will just have to wait very patiently, but at least its getting done.
Thanks for all the helpful posts, can now even see the funny side of some of the not so helpful ones.
Hopefully the hair will grow back without me looking too much like tuffty (showing my age there lol).
just to clarify, it was myself that said 30-40 lbs was to dear!
and to me it is.. it may be the going rate.. but if you have 7 doors to hang thats at least 210 pounds that i just dont have!
teddybear1873
19-Oct-10, 20:06
What is the going rate for tradesmen in Caithness these days. I used to charge at least 10GBP per hr for side work, that was before 2005.
Kevin Milkins
19-Oct-10, 20:14
just to clarify, it was myself that said 30-40 lbs was to dear!
and to me it is.. it may be the going rate.. but if you have 7 doors to hang thats at least 210 pounds that i just dont have!
I thought the doors were needing hanging, not weighing. ;)
just to clarify, it was myself that said 30-40 lbs was to dear!
and to me it is.. it may be the going rate.. but if you have 7 doors to hang thats at least 210 pounds that i just dont have!
Surely 30-40 lbs is too heavy? :eek:
damn you Kevin Milkins, beat me to it [lol]
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