What's a sensible cost for a composite front door?

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I want to replace my wooden front door for a composite.

It's needed replacing for years but I just hate dealing with the ****e the sales teams spout.

I finally caved and had a visit from a fairly local company. Started out okay and then the pantomime started; discount codes, calls to the boss, all the usual ********!

Ignoring the if I sign now discounts they quoted a rather silly £1680 for a fairly straightforward job.

I Know I can buy the exact same door for under £700. £1000 seems rather excessive for half a days work from a couple of fitters even allowing for overheads.

I'm seriously considering buying the door and installing it myself. That aside what's a sensible price to be paying (Midlands, bog standard half glassed door)?
 
Sister in law just paid £950 and that was after haggling and have a sign outside for 2 weeks advertising the company.

Would there be any insurance implications fitting it yourself?
 
I had a composite front and high security upvc rear fitted for somewhere in the region of £1700. If I remember rightly just over £1000 was the composite portion of it.
 
Ive bought a lot of things like this....

Buy the door from a trade supplier, delivered but not fitted. Then get a local builder to quote a days labour to install it.

I always find it best to source items myself and then pay a separate labour charge if i am not to be doing the work. A supply and fit door company will be making markups on everything.

I would not expect a bog standard composite door to cost much, see here for example, they are around £500. Add in £200 for labour and i would expect the job to cost around £700-800 fitted factoring in delivery and disposal.

http://www.justdoorsuk.com/white-composite-doors.php

I used these guys last month as well, for some french doors, the quality seems good and delivery was efficient to Oxfordshire: http://www.doncasterupvcwindows.co.uk/
 
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£880 supplied and fitted from a local glazing company, including chrome handle, letterbox and knocker, and a low step threshold.

No hard sell, just picked up brochure of door designs from their office, a fitter came to measure and quote arrived in post.

Door is manufactured by these people... http://www.wbhome.co.uk/
 
950 odd for a composite bog standard white inside black outside pas24 door.

I couldn't be bothered to do it myself. Just the mastic and the trims that make it look good it's worth paying for someone to do it.
 
Decide how much you want to pay - based on the trade price of the door plus a reasonable labour charge. DG firms will want around £300/day revenue for a fitting team, one door is half a days work.

Tell the salesman you're a building surveyor and you've had a quote for X from another company and ask them to match it and you're ready to sign now.

They try it on because 80% of the population have no idea how much these things cost. If you show them you're clued up they'll drop all the theatricals, get a quick in and out deal signed at minimum margin and go and try it on with the next person.

This works best with companies who make their own doors and frames because they have the most margin to play with and want to keep their manufacturing facilities busy.
 
It really depends on quality as well. I would get quotes from all loca firms and a supply only quote with builder labour on top.

For my house I buy only top end fixtures and fittings. This Solidor Composite cost me £1470 fitted...however that was through a really good friend of mine. I suspect it would have been close to £2000 through a firm. I highly recommend Solidor having done my research. Hardwood inner, German engineering, SBD locks. The quality really is impressive.

 
Nathan said:
It really depends on quality as well. I would get quotes from all loca firms and a supply only quote with builder labour on top.

For my house I buy only top end fixtures and fittings. This Solidor Composite cost me £1470 fitted...however that was through a really good friend of mine. I suspect it would have been close to £2000 through a firm. I highly recommend Solidor having done my research. Hardwood inner, German engineering, SBD locks. The quality really is impressive.

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That looks like a good door setup with the panes either side. I'd be after something similar for the front of my house. We have a very small porch area at the front which has uPVC french doors fitted then you come to the main front door inside which is wooden.

Thinking of getting the inner front door replaced with something composite but it would need large panes either side of the door and above it due to the make up of the entrance way. I take it the bulk of the price is for the door itself and some window panels shouldn't bump up the price too much?

Heres a couple pics of what i'm referring to (sorry for bad quality)...
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I'd expect to pay about £1000 fitted looking at the pic, I base this on what we paid for a door with two big windows next to it which cost us £900.
 
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