Fitting checks in Leicestershire
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
Conversions need stair fire doors. Terrace softwood swells. Two-hinge hangs drop.
Getting the leaf there
On-street terraces. The leaf comes through the front door.
What the quote is based on
In Leicestershire the price moves with this housing: conversions need stair fire doors. Terrace softwood swells. Two-hinge hangs drop. Say how many doors, whether you have bought them, and whether the frame is rotten.
Questions in Leicestershire
Victorian city terraces, flats and hosiery-town housing. 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 city terraces, flats and hosiery-town housing. 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 city terraces, flats and hosiery-town housing. On-street terraces. The leaf comes through the front door. 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 Leicestershire the job we do take is this one: victorian city terraces, flats and hosiery-town housing.
Quote in Leicestershire
Say which door you need hung and whether the frame is staying.



