- PUBLISHED PRICES none, deliberately
- SURVEY quoted before it happens
- OUTPUT category and a working range
How pricing is put together
How an Estimate Gets Put Together
Describe the opening and you get two things back: what category of job it is, and what a survey would need to establish before anyone can quote it.
The method
Estimating starts on the phone
Estimating starts on a call because that is where the deciding details surface. Frame in scope or not, label or no label, what the hardware has to accomplish, what the wall is built from — each one moves the number, and not one of them can be read off a photograph.
The conversation costs nothing. The survey is quoted before it happens, and the work after it.
No charge for the call
Give us the opening, the rough measurement, the label status and the town. What comes back is the category of job, what the survey will need to establish, and a quoted price for that survey.
- Whether the frame is in scope, which is the single largest variable.
- The hardware set, frequently the larger half of the invoice.
- Label status, which narrows the options and lengthens the lead time.
- Access and hours, because an occupied lobby and an empty building are genuinely different work.
Why no price list
Why there is no price list
A published figure is a figure for somebody else's opening
Two openings that look identical from the corridor can differ by a factor of three once the frame is measured and the hardware is scheduled. A number on this page would be either meaningless or misleading, and you would find out which after the invoice.
It is the second question that decides the job
Opening answers rarely settle anything. Discovering that a frame has been sitting wet at the floor line for years, or that a leaf carries a label nobody has ever read, redraws the whole scope.
A phone quote is a guess in both directions
A contractor who quotes an opening without measuring it is either guessing high to protect themselves or guessing low to win the job. Both get corrected later and you pay for the correction either way.
The survey is quoted, not free
A free survey is priced into somebody's job, usually yours. We would rather it was a visible line than a hidden one.
By service line
What each line is priced against
- Commercial Door Installation
What moves an installation figure. No figures published. Two openings that look identical from the corridor can differ by a factor of three once the frame is measured.
- Door Frame Replacement
Where the money goes on a frame job. No figures here for the same reason as everywhere else on this site: the wall decides, and we have not seen your wall.
- Commercial Door Hardware Installation
Hardware pricing, and what actually drives it. Everything above changes the number and none of it is visible from the corridor. That is why the survey comes first.
- ADA and Egress Door Compliance Upgrades
How a compliance scope prices out. The survey is quoted before it happens. Corrective work is quoted after, because before is guesswork.
- Fire-Rated Door Replacement
What a labelled opening costs, and why. We will not quote a rated opening from a photograph. The label has to be read, and if there is no label there is a different conversation to have.
Say what the opening is. We will tell you which line it falls under.
Describe the opening — what it is, roughly what it measures, and what is wrong with it. You will get told whether it is a leaf job, an opening job, or somebody else's job.
- Commercial Door Installation
- Door Frame Replacement
- Commercial Door Hardware Installation
- ADA and Egress Door Compliance Upgrades
- Fire-Rated Door Replacement