How much i charge Fitting Doors in 2023 

Personally, I find talking about money is very helpful. It's good to hear what other people are charging.

I charge £150 a fire door and £120 a standard. I hang lots of doors too. The building trade is so busy. Can’t believe some carpenters would charge any less. I live in Reading area and other carpenters should never undercut each other so cheap. 3 fire doors in one day, that’s £450. Put your prices up lads and go earn good money, your a trades man. You got all the knowledge and expensive tools with a van. Good luck 🤞

Enjoying the “how much do I make” videos. It’s really nice to see someone honest and transparent. You will always do well as your not greedy and your fair. 👍

Don't say sorry to anyone. You are a skilled man. If you feel that's what your worth then that's your price. If someone ain't happy then they can go somewhere else. Some unskilled people may not see the value in having a nice perfectly finished door. done by a pro.

Explaining the money side is brilliant. Can’t think of anybody else that does it. 👍

I wouldn’t swing any door for less than £70 but I’m in Southampton. The tools alone required by a carpenter to do the job and experience is worth more than £50 a door which could take an hour depending on the environment by which l mean upstairs, tight bends, cramped conditions and also if the cutting was all done outside. Overall l would say good prices but l think you should up them a little more. Know what your worth.😊

I think your pricing is spot on at the current time. Important to know what you are worth. Also remember every potential customer has less to spend these days. I think your price is realistic and fair.

I love these videos and plan to make some myself as the feedback is brilliant to learn from. Personally, I charge per hour or per day. Having watched your videos I feel that I need to start charging per item/job. The bulk of my income and profits come from furniture making as it is selling a product but it sounds like I am missing out on so much by charging extra jobs at a day rate. Thanks for the great video and thanks everyone for the constructive comments.

Was waiting for the next upload! I work for a builder on a self employed basis, past 2 years I’ve gained a lot of experience in carpentry from 1st to 2nd fix. Hopefully one day I’ll go on my own like you! Keep up the work man

It’s so nice to hear some honest answers here. Well done mate 👍🏻

£55.00 for lightweight £80.00 for oak/solid core Great video 👌🏻

You can definitely charge more for the heavy veneered oak doors especially if it’s upstairs in old frames 👍

In Trinidad and Tobago we charge roughly 300tt dollars or 30£ per door

You need to up your prices bro.. your current prices are the same as mine were 3 years sgo

I charge £75 for all internal doors across the board!! If I get heavy ones I just take that as I have to work a bit harder that day!! With the price of all the kit you need to fit a door properly etc I think it’s fair.

Can’t argue with them prices. I charge £50 for the standard painted doors too. Oak I charge £70 per door so quite similar to yourself. I hate fitting new doors into old frames tho. Worst job there is. So much mess and effort involved. You have to drill out and chop out for the latches/locks then put all the handles/thumb turns on and then you think you’ve finished then you’ve got to do all the keeps. Just a long process!

Your prices are fair .. from your videos you take pride in your quality of work. At the end of the day , you charge what you think the job is worth., and this can vary from job to job .

I always add extra depending on if the frames are bad, takes longer so makes sense

Love the videos! Im an apprentice in carpentry just started so these videos give me really good idea for prices etc for me and my future as im leaning everyday. Keep all the vids coming there great man 👌🏼

I think your bang on with pricing . If the frames/linings are quite bad I would charge a fraction more . Nice of you to share this because I'm always wondering myself what others are charging.

Prices seem fair, especially at the moment with the cost of living through the roof. I live in the midlands area and charge 50 for ply/mdf faced doors and 80 for hardwood doors. Love the content, keep it up

Hopefully I don’t bore anyone, but the can ‘scroll past’😂 I haven’t lived in Uk for 21 yrs… but back in the day as an apprentice, we did a lot of doors for council! And they were mainly heavy solid core doors with one glass pane. Me ( 3rd yr maybe? Say 1990) was doing ONE door a day! One 😂….. the tradesman we’re doing ONE door a day! 😂. But you’ll understand why in a minute. Everything was made at least 1/2 an inch to big to even go in the frame! And at least 1/12 inch too high! Zero power tools! Procedure was; humph thing up usually concrete stairs, roughly eye it in to see what you had to do to even get it in the frame! Then several trips up and down getting it to final fit! This was all done with a hand plane! Up to your knees in shavings! And you had to punch all the nails on edge strip when you got down to them. Height was cut with the sandvik 244 or a Jack cut, three hinges in with a chisel, then you had the mortise lock, done with a swing brace and augers, chisel! Then Yale lock… swing brace and the ‘special 1/14 bit’ for it, then the door stops -hand saw ( miter for moulded edge) ‘Winton ‘ weather bar! ( that needed an inch gap itself! Yet they were sending doors BIGGER than frame?!? Then metal/ rubber Draught strips…. Then done I think Usually if you had it swinging by lunch you were on track 😂 near the end I got an electric drill! Which helped with locks when used with a modern auger and rocking motion, made a perfect mortise, quick and no chisel! The boss always wanted 2 doors a day! But the wages for the tradesmen was $154 a Week NO BONUS so he got ONE! True story but hard to believe, thinking at how I’d tackle that job now! With my 36 yrs experience and all my gear! 😂 Last door I fitted was for strata, not sure what it’s called in Uk if it exists? ( a block of flats has all private owners, but no one person owns building, roof doors , windows ..strata owns it) It was a fire door in a metal fire frame ( timber door, metal frame inside door and filled with some special core) Up 3 flights of stairs! Frame was all over the place!! I went there in morning with a cover sheet ( 3 mm mdf) supplier gave me, made a template with that for top bottom left right… popped it on door back at factory, track saw… planer… ✅ Carry it up, mark hinges, laminate trimmed out! Done ✅ Waited for lock smith to fit and rekey locks, and I charged $2400 aud supply and fit, I charged the owner an additional $450 for replacement of locks! Locksmith was about $350 so I got )100 on that I had never done a strata fire door so I rang around for prices and it was between 2-3 k! Which was where my $2500 came from , was going to subby whole job, maybe get $300-400 for nothing, but then priced up door.. $250-$300 and thought ‘there is a bob or two in this! If I don’t mess up!’ Think I made nearly 2 k for driving to get a door, template, fit door with 3 hinges organise locksmith and stick a ‘9’ on door 👍🏻. $2000=£1100 pounds £1100 pounds is 7 and a half WEEKS WAGES for those guys back at the one door a day in 1990! And 14 WEEKS wages for my $80 a week apprentice wage! For fitting a door and 3 hinges 😂 ( btw if your apprentice is interested 1987 first year £29.50 a week second year £50 3rd £80 4 th maybe £120 First tradesmen wage £154! And it was HARD physical work, not like today with our screw guns and planers! Got on a rant sorry😂

That is the only thing I don't enjoy doing, fitting doors... I like framing, rough and finish electrical, rough and finish plumbing, drywalling, tiling, painting, you name it, but fitting doors...

I charge £80-£100 plus VAT per door regardless of what type of door it is. For this price I will also fill old hinge cutouts and move stops to suit new doors if required.

Great video, please show more pricing videos like this. Really helps people just starting out by themselves like me

Way too cheap for America... not sure about the UK... Ive seen you videos and you are fast and a great door hanger so it probably works out....

I like hearing about the money, it gives me a good idea. Thanks. Please keep the vids coming.

Good video bro interesting to see what people charge love the honesty keep it up

Keeping doing your thing broski I am a young chippie aswell

Great video bud I started at £65 a door then £80 now £100 an internal door Surrey area

Nice video. I charge £50 for the hollow moulded doors and £80 for hardwood or pre finished doors. Based in East Midlands.

You gotta cover yourself with doors, easy for an veneer door to come damaged or get the odd one that sticks and needs easing after a month. Your prices are about the same as mine and I’m in Nottingham 👍👍

I love talking about money. We all know what we want and by and large we are about the same. I have a standard charge then add on’s adjustments to door stops, location of doors and where they can be cut etc

I’m relatively new to the trade find videos like this really helpful cheers

Hi mate think your prices are spot on mate its around the same im charging currently 👍

Only thing i don’t like about doors is if the house is full and no room inside to cut, then you have to cut outside and that increases the risk of tools being stolen etc! Also doors are harddd work especially if the linings are out and the customer has the heating on full blast 😂

I charge up to £80- £180 fitting a door with all the iron mongery. I'm in essex. I try my luck with the price because I don't get tips if I charge less.

Interesting the difference between domestic rates and commercial/new build rates🤔 I fitted 16 44mm Oak fire doors, (8 upstairs and 8 downstairs) including latches, privacy locks and a 5 lever mortice lock including fitting bolt through handles and fixing the door stops for £500+vat. Took a day and half, but in my own linings and at the 2nd fix stage of the house construction. Totally different kettle of fish though doing the same job in an inhabited home with dodgey linings, fitted carpets and furniture and having to leave the place clean at the end of each day.

I'm in south London, I charge £110 per internal door with 3 hinges and a latch and ill charge more for pair doors and rebated sets. Your prices are very fair, do you have a minimum charge? I would not be interested in a single internal door job nowadays but there was a time like you when i was just trying to get myself out there and build a reputation and i was way undercharging for a long time.

Great video mate , really interesting and honest video

I live in Manchester and I charge £80.00 for oak veneer doors and £70.00 for light weight doors and like yourself £10 per lock

I think your prices very fair and still on low side.

Great video, yes I would love to know prices for architrave and skirting, skirting by lineal metre would be interesting to know

Great video i charge around £50 per door also fire doors £60 carpenter in Cardiff. With only 6months experience post college.

I think ya prices are pretty much much spot on mate 👍

nice content bro. keep up the great work

Lightweight - £65 Oak - £85 Fire doors - £130 Front doors - Same as you. Didn’t think about charging extra for locks so might think about that. Do you charge for disposing of the old doors? Birmingham/Solihull

I would up those prices, especially if you're mainly doing domestic work.

it is very positive talking about money cuz lot of new boys don't know, you just don't know who's listening, men will goes as far as calling up your clients and charging 100 quid or 50 quid less when they find out how much you charge. of course i'm talking about the dodgey blokes who turn up in a family car with a screwdriver and a blunt chisel.

great video and very useful

Great content

Keep those vids coming buddy

Thanks for the vids. How did you do the transfer from employed to self employed? If it’s quite complex maybe do a vid on it? Cheers.

Oak doors , old frames £100 per door Lightweight doors old frames £80 Fire doors are more, especially when doors stops have to be removed South east

I think your pricing is about right for the internal doors, maybe a bit more for fire doors. I don't think you get many upcv doors at those prices though unless you're included trims and fixings and taking away the old door. I like the "how much did I earn" videos 👍👍👍

in the netherlands the price is going arround 90 euro a door, if there a more sometimes they make it 80

Straight banger 🎉🎉

Is it possible if you could make a vidoe on how you make you make quotes and the layout, it would help 😅

I’d personally add an extra £5 for an upstairs door compared to a downstairs one purely for the hassle of carrying them up and down the stairs.

I’m pretty similar Standard £55 Oak £65

Lol my best was 36 fire doors in 3 days which was 6 apartments, but I set the frame🤔 lol...

mad I charge £100 per door £10 extra if the client wants a lock. (for all intorior doors).

I would not bother climbing out of bed for those prices...

Price for standard/oak is okay but fire door is a lot… almost double to fit brush strips and a closer Good videos btw they are enjoyable !

Do you need to acclimatize the door before fitting? Or can you just turn up with a door? Thanks. Love your vids.

some people charge alot more and they are shit carpenters. some people are shit hot but arnt valuing themselves properly and dont charge enough. so what to charge? then you have the customers frame of mind. do they even know the skills your applying? do they have more money than sense? are they tight? many tradesmen try to figure this out first. kind of helps it making use of your time.

My prices are way too cheap. And people still scoff because their father in law paid half that 10 years ago

So many variables to fitting interior doors, exterior doors are mainly upvc or composite, occasionally steel security, I remember 25 year ago it was £40 for an interior door, nowadays interior doors are completely different, Heavy fancy veneers ball race hinges, bolt through handles and very easy to damage, your risk is way to high at them prices in my opinion, yes you can throw on as many as you like but with speed comes compromise, seen hundreds of poorly fitted doors locks latches and hinges gaps twists upside down wrong way round lock sides mixed up nothing I haven’t seen nothing surprises me, you price low your under pressure to speed fit to make your days money, slip ups can happen, sloppy chisel work and just not having the time to make a nice faultless job which I would say quality comes well before quantity, if the customer is paying peanuts they can get monkeys, I would rather walk away than rush a job cause the money is not what it should be,

Hey man can you make a video on how you get jobs? What’s your strategy ?

sound i charge roughly the same ,,but curious ,,, for one internal hollow door i wont hang for less than 100 ,,?

I would rather charge £50 for a door lining and door than £50 to fit a door in an old frame.

I charge 65 pounds per door.I’m In the East Midlands

You should charge £85 for solid core doors 😅

£390 for a days work not to bad 😳

How'd your computer monitor get that streaky? Did a mayonnaise sandwich attack it?

£50 hollow door £75 per oak, solid door £120 front door 👍👍👍

As an apprentice myself, when do you recon it’s time for a pay rise ? I’m with my employer 1 year and 3 months.

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I'd feel I was mugging people off if I charged more than 35 quid, I do hang 15 doors a day in old frames .. it is hard work in occupied properties but I don't mind working hard been doing it 32 years. Just for reference, the most doors I've hung in one day is 45, no locks just swinging, at the time I used to do alot of schools ,offices, and we got paid 20 quid a door, (so all fire doors)and traditional hung. Locks arcs stops furniture would be separate price..

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try get some sponsers on your videos to help make some more mula

What camera do you use

Do you have a website?

You Birmingham based mate ?

Post plz

youre pretty much there on pricing ,

Id say your coming up a bit cheap there

How old are you?

First and foremost you are a tradesman. You went to college presumably and this is your business. You are not a charity you need to stop looking at your business as if it were a charity. You don't want to get a reputation for being too cheap, because that will be how people will view you.

Please get a better mike!!

Stop robbing people how dare you distortion prices standard door £45 fire door £60

Too cheap bro

Whats your instagram buddy my price point is practically the same, im in wolverhampton you dont sound like you are far away 👍🏻👍🏻