Fitting checks in Berkshire
Before the visit
- ✓ Measure head, middle and cill
- ✓ See if the frame is rotten or out of square
- ✓ Confirm fire door, entrance door or internal leaf
- ✓ Check stairs, lifts and where a van can stop
During the hang
- ✓ Protect the floor
- ✓ Pack the frame if it is being replaced
- ✓ Mortice hinges and set the latch or lock
- ✓ Keep an external opening closed the same day
After the hang
- ✓ Swing the door and move the keep
- ✓ Check seals on entrance and fire doors
- ✓ Clear shavings
- ✓ Tell you what not to paint or plane
What fails first
Terrace conversions need stair fire doors. Larger houses drop heavy oak leaves off two hinges.
Getting the leaf there
Town terraces are a carry from the street. Detached houses allow the van onto the drive.
What the quote is based on
In Berkshire the price moves with this housing: terrace conversions need stair fire doors. Larger houses drop heavy oak leaves off two hinges. Say how many doors, whether you have bought them, and whether the frame is rotten.
Questions in Berkshire
Victorian terraces and flats in the larger towns, detached houses further out with heavier leaves. Labour to hang an internal door in a frame that stays is typically £70–£150, and supply and fit of a standard internal door is often £150–£400. An entrance door or an FD30 set costs more because of the lock, seals and closer. The written quote uses this opening, not a flat call-out fee.
Victorian terraces and flats in the larger towns, detached houses further out with heavier leaves. A door that only sticks in winter has usually swollen on the lock edge and can be eased. Replace it if the skin is holed, the door is twisted, or a hollow leaf has been forced.
Victorian terraces and flats in the larger towns, detached houses further out with heavier leaves. Town terraces are a carry from the street. Detached houses allow the van onto the drive. Tell us about stairs, lifts and where a van can stop when you ask for the quote.
We hang and replace doors and frames. We do not fit windows, up-and-over garage doors, electric gates, or a lintel. A lock-only emergency on a sound door is locksmith work. In Berkshire the job we do take is this one: victorian terraces and flats in the larger towns, detached houses further out with heavier leaves.
Quote in Berkshire
Say which door you need hung and whether the frame is staying.



