How much for a front door?!

[Eleven]

Willeh85 said:

I got my composite door from here http://www.justdoorsuk.com/ for about £600 IIRC and got a joiner/plasterer to fit it.

Admittedly he was already working on my house at the time so saved me quite a lot on the rate. Took him a morning.

Taken in the afternoon it was fitted. It's actually blue, but my phone camera was crap and it was overcast.

That looks like you've bought a modern door and stuck a £9.99 Wilkinson "Victorian" brass knocker on it.

[scenario8]

Oakey said:

joshcowin said:

Overheads of the physical shop will be far more than the internet retailer.

I don't get this argument, what is to say the online retailer doesn't have physical premises?

It's not as if they store the doors on a computer and send them down your broadband, is it?

FWIW when I was looking for our replacement doors I paid an impromptu visit to three online door retailers whose businesses it transpired were run from home. They had no retail floor space, no showroom, held no stock and effectively were virtual companies run from laptops on kitchen tables. I suspected two of them actually had no physical contact with their stock at any point.

These retailers clearly had a huge cost advantage over competitors who had physical showrooms - even those based in out of town light industrial parks - and must have relied to some extent or another on purchasers visiting the physical stores to get a look see at the products before sourcing from cheaper virtual stores.

I'm sure much e-retailing works in a similar fashion.

[Pheo]

This is probably going to sound epically stupid - but with these wooden front doors - what do you do about the frame? We currently have an aluminium front door, with a side opening bit. How would you get a frame to fit?

[Bullett]

In our case the carpenter made the frame from scratch.

[Sgt Bilko]

SkinnyPete said:

Paid £2700 or so for two fancy Rockdoors, I thought that was about normal for a door of this type.

They take about about 60 seconds to be taken down with a petrol powered circular saw if done by two people who know what they are doing.

This should give me enough time to flush the drugs.

Hydraulics and air bag. First thing you'd know would be your door sailing down the hallway at speed. ;-)

[onomatopoeia]

Swervin_Mervin said:

Which begs the question...so who mad the door?

Hormann.

[DSLiverpool]

onomatopoeia said:

I paid around that for just a front door. However it was nothing to do with "buying the front door of the house I aspire to" or whatever that quote was, it was a case of:

Need a new front door
Look at door in B&Q, hmm, that's quite nice, get price.
Look at other door from door company, that's nicer, but more expensive. Repeat with various manufacturers of composite doors getting progressively nicer, and progressively more expensive.
Go to homebuilding and renovation show at the NEC, see a door made of steel that I really, really liked. OK, I'm having that one (price unknown at this point). Get a price from local dealer. Right then, looks like I'd best forget about holidays for a couple of years then!

It's a really nice door, and everyone that comes round comments on it, but it was ridiculously expensive (and entirely inappropriate for a small 1950s bungalow).

I really do mean *everyone* - friends, various trades I've had round to do jobs, random bloke that knocked on my door trying to buy my VW camper van, who rang me a couple of months later not to ask if I was now interested in selling the van, but who made the door ...

Picture please

[alock]

We're nearing the end of an extension on our house. Part of it included a new front door. Where you can save money is by using off-the-shelf frames with standard size side panels. We only had the space for one side panel and couldn't decide which side it should be on so had a custom made frame with a narrower side panel on both sides made.

I don't know the exact cost because our builder covered the extra under his fixed price quote, but I think the frame and glass was just over £2K. These pictures are after 2 coats of Osmo UV Clear Oil.





(Hall flooring has not been put down. Outside step requires a bit more pointing. Letter box is the one I knocked up in 20 minutes from scrap after losing the old one from the old front door)

[Willeh85]

Eleven said:

That looks like you've bought a modern door and stuck a £9.99 Wilkinson "Victorian" brass knocker on it.

thanks

[Eleven]

Willeh85 said:

Eleven said:

That looks like you've bought a modern door and stuck a £9.99 Wilkinson "Victorian" brass knocker on it.

thanks

I wasn't being mean. It might be the lighting in that photo, but the knocker looks brassy whereas the other fittings look chrome / silver.

[Yazar]

Willeh85 said:

thanks

Why the low letter box? Just came like that or your decision. As can't imagine the postie being too happy stooping down each day?

[Willeh85]

Eleven said:

I wasn't being mean. It might be the lighting in that photo, but the knocker looks brassy whereas the other fittings look chrome / silver.

Ah ok, sorry. Its the rubbish photo, all fittings are chrome finish.

Yazar said:

Why the low letter box? Just came like that or your decision. As can't imagine the postie being too happy stooping down each day?

My decision. It was a combination of the positioning of the letter box on the door would have looked odd with the window placement, and there are steps leading up to that door so the postie only has to bend a little bit.

[Swervin_Mervin]

They very nice these modern doors, and those illustrated look good to me. But the style of the property has to be a key factor. I can imagine them looking more than a little out of place on much of UK housing stock, such as 1920s/30s builds.

It's something we're looking at at the moment and we've found some lovely restored period solid oak doors but jeez, the ££££

[Alucidnation]

B3NNL said:

Alucidnation said:

Ah another one of the good old 'something for nothing' threads.

And another one of those great input posts! Good on ya

You are most welcome.

[Matt..]

Doors are not cheap.
I bought a very normal backdoor (Solidor Beeston), and it was over £1k fitted.

I'd rather pay a little extra for something vaguely secure though. I didn't want a non-solid composite door like so many of them are, and even basic white upvc doors are hundreds of £!

To me it seems the phrase 'composite door' is used to describe solid and secure doors, but in many cases a 'composite door' is actually just a foam filled one, and not in any way secure!

[SkinnyPete]

Sgt Bilko said:

SkinnyPete said:

Paid £2700 or so for two fancy Rockdoors, I thought that was about normal for a door of this type.

They take about about 60 seconds to be taken down with a petrol powered circular saw if done by two people who know what they are doing.

This should give me enough time to flush the drugs.

Hydraulics and air bag. First thing you'd know would be your door sailing down the hallway at speed. ;-)

How would that work, and would it be quicker than a saw?

Either way I don't think thieves / police / whatever carry hydraulics and airbags

[Sgt Bilko]

SkinnyPete said:

Sgt Bilko said:

SkinnyPete said:

Paid £2700 or so for two fancy Rockdoors, I thought that was about normal for a door of this type.

They take about about 60 seconds to be taken down with a petrol powered circular saw if done by two people who know what they are doing.

This should give me enough time to flush the drugs.

Hydraulics and air bag. First thing you'd know would be your door sailing down the hallway at speed. ;-)

How would that work, and would it be quicker than a saw?

Either way I don't think thieves / police / whatever carry hydraulics and airbags

I'm not at liberty to say, but the training was fun. The police do have them, but you have to have the right team on hand. Your average teams just have the big red key. You have to dial it up a few clicks to get them to pull out the other toys. Or ask for a glass trained team, who will just put the window through in a few seconds and make it safe to climb in.

[SkinnyPete]

Sgt Bilko said:

SkinnyPete said:

Sgt Bilko said:

SkinnyPete said:

Paid £2700 or so for two fancy Rockdoors, I thought that was about normal for a door of this type.

They take about about 60 seconds to be taken down with a petrol powered circular saw if done by two people who know what they are doing.

This should give me enough time to flush the drugs.

Hydraulics and air bag. First thing you'd know would be your door sailing down the hallway at speed. ;-)

How would that work, and would it be quicker than a saw?

Either way I don't think thieves / police / whatever carry hydraulics and airbags

I'm not at liberty to say, but the training was fun. The police do have them, but you have to have the right team on hand. Your average teams just have the big red key. You have to dial it up a few clicks to get them to pull out the other toys. Or ask for a glass trained team, who will just put the window through in a few seconds and make it safe to climb in.

I'm assuming you'd need to cut in between the door and brick, insert the air bag and blow but that seems more hassle than just going at it with a saw.

Also entry through glass, does it take just a 'few seconds' to put through a laminated pane double glazed pane?

Iirc my windows are 13mm with an internal laminated sheet, not invincible obviously but if it adds a few seconds onto entry then it may just put them off.

Can't find the youtube now but a fire axe didn't exactly do a clean job.

[PositronicRay]

Willeh85 said:

I got my composite door from here http://www.justdoorsuk.com/ for about £600 IIRC and got a joiner/plasterer to fit it.

Admittedly he was already working on my house at the time so saved me quite a lot on the rate. Took him a morning.

Taken in the afternoon it was fitted. It's actually blue, but my phone camera was crap and it was overcast.

I used these, very happy too. I'd probably budget £150-£200 for fitting.

[BoRED S2upid]

Check out kaybee doors we bought all our doors from here very reasonable and great customer service.