How much should this joinery job cost?

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We have just had new carpets fitted with much deeper underlay than the previous ones. The carpet fitters removed the doors and said to get a joiner to plane the bottom off them to fit. Hinges are all fine, it is just the planing that needs done. I have 5 doors to be planed.

Has anyone any idea of what sort of price this should be?

Bump, anyone who is or knows a joiner?

We paid £50 a door to have new ones hung. We are in Hertfordshire

No idea sorry when I had my floors laminated I had 1 door that had to be planned but the guy who fitted the floor did that for no extra but it was a 2 minute job . I wouldn’t even think you need a joiner just a handyman if your not great at diy as long as got a plane .

Thanks. I don't really want to pay £50 per door!

We have an electric plane, so we may have a go ourselves. The danger is we take too much off, or get it a bit wonky. How hard could it be?

I had said to the carpet fitter that we might do it ourselves, and he seemed very doubtful and said he thought we should go for a joiner.

I've never even heard of carpet fitters removing doors and leaving them off. Is this normal?

Check out a YouTube video or 2 first to get some guidance but I reckon you could so it yourself. I imagine 50£ per door would be to hang from beginning to end (hinges, latch, handle etc)

Carpet fitters wouldn't plane a door. I used to work for a flooring company. Our fitters would often do one door to be obliging, but preferred a joiner to do it. The one we recommended charged £10 per door to plane and rehang. Tbh that was almost 15 years ago though

I think I paid about 25 quid to have one door planed. I imagine though it'll work out cheaper per door if you're having more than one done. I would reckon about £100.

Carpet fitters wouldn't plane a door.

I've had two separate carpet fitters who did - both charged £10 per door.

We had carpet fitted last year, and the recommended 'door planing person' charged £15 per door.

Husband did it with an electric plane, and seemed to think it was a simple enough task (he's a good DIY man, although joinery work is not his strong point 😅)

I did it myself. It was a mess and the door doesn't close properly now. No idea where I went wrong, but I'd pay someone else to do it!

We did it after someone said it was easy with a cheap little door plainer. Christ we sweated buckets doing 4 door. One has never hung right and one still drags the carpet as we have up. I'd happily pay 25 each for a proper job!!!

I thought I would update. We got a local builder to get his joiner to do it. £10 per door, which given the amount of work and angst it would have taken us to do it, seems like a really good price.