HOW MUCH for oak doors?!! Is this extortionate or what?

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I've just had a quote for new internal doors

14 of them to include a set of French type doors which are half glass of you see what I mean.

And by 'oak' I mean solid core oak veneer type doors - not solid oak of course. I've attached an example

Anyway. The quote. For all material and labour, we've been quoted £4750.

This seems on the pricey side to me but am I ridiculously out of touch?

Happy to be told I am!

Sounds right to me. We paid a comparable amount for 10 doors to be installed about 7 years ago (I mean, comparable in the sense that I mentally added four more doors to our cost and allowed for the huge increase in both labour and materials in the past 7 years!).

We paid between 220 and 250 per door including fixtures and labour for 6 doors last year. Some were all wood, some were half glazed.

Blimey.

Maybe it is about right

Doors would be Dordogne from howdens

We're getting similar from howdens and that sounds about if it includes labour. Ours is a bit less, but we're just purchasing the doors from them.

*sounds about right

No, that's only about £100 per door Inc. fitting. Not much at all

@catfunk I make it about £337 per door? 100'quid would be fine

We got ours from www.shop24glasgow.co.uk/
they came from Poland and are solid wood! And beautifully made.
our friend said it was cheaper to go to Poland and ship doors over than buy them in b and q. They also come ready with handles etc, so not an extra whatever for hinges.

I have dordogne doors from howdens. I paid about £700 for 7 with the handles (they come up and very so often on the rooster sales) and about £40/45 to fit.

So yeah i think that's expensive but depends on area for labour I suppose

Oh and they were made to order. Still cheaper than the composite crap we were so disheartened to be looking at. Especially when some showroom guy got out a calculator and hummed and hawed before announcing an insane price half an hour later. it s a DOOR ffs. How can you not know the price?

our neighbour got these www.flyingdoors.co.uk/shop/composite-front-doors and they look good

Go online order them yourself and pay a trade person to fit them when they are delivered.

Save your self about 25% margin that is being added. Don't forget handles can really add up as well

Ours came from ukoakdoors but required all fixtures, fittings, hinges cut in, frames made up etc. Great doors though.

We got ours from Howdens on a friends trade account and paid a carpenter to fit them. Mind you, I did get a bit carried away with the handles and hinges so ours ended up way more than budgetted........

We're getting the Dordogne Howdens ones and they're not coming up as expensive as that? Is your builder passing on all of his discount or not? Ours is a big builder so think Howdens gets a lot of business from him!

I had very similar fitted last month, although we went for the Howdens Holdenby pre-finished so that we didn't need to varnish them. We had new casings too, they came in at £323 per door in the end including handles, hinges and labour, this isn't too bad considering the door itself is £205 at Howdens.

We paid about £120 per door, £50 per door for ironmongery and £50 per door for fitting, so £220 per door x 14 = £3380 about 10 years ago. Would expect 30% + more now so your quote seems ok. You are probably paying a bit of a premium for the supply, might be able to save £500 or so by soucing doors/ironmongery yourself.