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Door Hanging Question

  • 26-08-2016 8:48am
    #1
    pm1977x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭


    Is it normal for a 'professional' carpenter to hang a door, lower the locks but leave the old strike plates in the frame? I expected these removed and filled and old hinge holes filled but hasn't been done.


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  • #2
    Bonzo Delaney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,577 ✭✭✭Bonzo Delaney


    pm1977x wrote: »
    Is it normal for a 'professional' carpenter to hang a door, lower the locks but leave the old strike plates in the frame? I expected these removed and filled and old hinge holes filled but hasn't been done.

    With regards to a finished job yes it should of been done
    But that depends on what was agreed in relation to price are the frames white or varnished? Was it to be left to the painter to sort out?
    Curious to know why the locks were lowered in the first place and why the hinge positions were changed usually theyed be matched up to save patching up afterwards.


  • #3
    pm1977x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭pm1977x


    Frames are painted white and need to be stripped and repainted by us anyway.

    Over the phone told they left bits for our painter decorator to finish (there had never been any mention of us getting a decorator in).

    Locks lowered because 'it suits these doors better' although my suspicion is it was quicker or easier to leave the old ones there and cut out new ones, or maybe that takes more time, don't know.


  • #4
    DublinDilbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,421 ✭✭✭DublinDilbert


    depending on the design of the door you might need to shift the lock position if its fitting into a cross piece.


  • #5
    tabby aspreme
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    The carpenter is the one who is supposed to know what they are doing here , and should have explained clearly what they were going to do and why they were going to do it that way. Did you deal directly with the carpenter or was there a builder involved.


  • #6
    Calahonda52
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,154 ✭✭✭✭Calahonda52


    tabby aspreme wrote: »
    The carpenter is the one who is supposed to know what they are doing here , and should have explained clearly what they were going to do and why they were going to do it that way. Did you deal directly with the carpenter or was there a builder involved.

    This is happening less and less now as can be seen in this retro windows refit project
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057637211
    Its what they can get away with, based on absence of a spec

    “I can’t pay my staff or mortgage with instagram likes”.



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  • #7
    pm1977x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭pm1977x


    tabby aspreme wrote: »
    The carpenter is the one who is supposed to know what they are doing here , and should have explained clearly what they were going to do and why they were going to do it that way. Did you deal directly with the carpenter or was there a builder involved.


    First mention of dropping locks was phone call from door salesman as fitter cleaning up on way out, there's other shoddy stuff like using a (clearly visible) folded piece of cardboard between frame and strike plate that he blamed on the uneven frame :rolleyes: but now says he'll fix that. Think he he just rushed everything, sick of tradesmen half-arseing stuff, seems to be the rule rather than the exception or I'm just on a bad run.


  • #8
    tabby aspreme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,172 ✭✭✭tabby aspreme


    pm1977x wrote: »
    First mention of dropping locks was phone call from door salesman as fitter cleaning up on way out, there's other shoddy stuff like using a (clearly visible) folded piece of cardboard between frame and strike plate that he blamed on the uneven frame :rolleyes: but now says he'll fix that. Think he he just rushed everything, sick of tradesmen half-arseing stuff, seems to be the rule rather than the exception or I'm just on a bad run.

    In future if you want work done, deal directly with a tradesman and avoid the salesman, they lose interest once you have left the shop


  • #9
    pm1977x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭pm1977x


    tabby aspreme wrote: »
    In future if you want work done, deal directly with a tradesman and avoid the salesman, they lose interest once you have left the shop

    True, thought it weird he rang having met fitter in the morning. On the plus side I still have over 50 % of the bill to pay so they can't just vanish.


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