New doors fitted ..Have they been bodged ???

[nyck]

My Daughter has had a few doors fitted and the 3 downstairs ones seemed to of been bodged
The original doors I would say were standard size 33" /2'9" /840mm but they've added a big strip of MDF to the frame to pack it out.
Im not sure if theyve ordered the wrong doors or cut one to short and made them all the same ??
But it doesn't look right with the uneven gap between the door and architrave on just one side .
Before we complain .. This isnt the way they do it these days ???
Ive included the photo of the original door measurement , the door which we think is correct even architrave gapping , and one of the bodged doors

thanks

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Who supplied the doors? If you supplied them, your fault, you bought the wrong width. If they supplied them, they have certainly botched it. Measure the door frame width, to work out what they have done, and get them back to do it properly.

 

[nyck]

Who supplied the doors? If you supplied them, your fault, you bought the wrong width. If they supplied them, they have certainly botched it. Measure the door frame width, to work out what they have done, and get them back to do it properly.

They came round and quoted and supplied everything.
Out of the 10 doors 3 are around 2000mm high so non standard. Which we didnt know at the time and they never told us .
After goggling You cant get the higher doors in standard widths , hence the packing out.
If they had any brains , I would of thought they could of fitted a standard width/height doors and just packed out just the top or suggested us having thresholds put in??

We haven't paid them yet ,and they refusing to fix the issues, so im thinking deducting the cost of the architrave and doing it myself ..Which i wish i had in the first place

 

[carmanmemoranda]

Suggest to them that they come back to sort the architrave if that's the best option for you before you deduct the cost.

Oh and get a quote from somebody else to do that, so you have some reasoning and figures, in a traceable format. Might come in handy further down the line

 

[foxhole]

The original doors don’t appear to be panelled ?,choosing panelled door limits sizes available .
Once new architrave is fitted and decorated it will improve the look.

 

[RrogerD]

It would appear that they have assumed all the openings to be the same size and when found to not be and have added the extra to the frame (incorrect solution imo).
What they should have done is taken the larger width door available and trimmed both edges down to keep symmetrical. If too much required then yes, pack out the frame inc moving the stop in but I would have done half at the hinges side and half at the latch and then possibly added larger architrave or at least moved it inwards to cover the new frame size.
If they are refusing to do anything then I think, you do the leg work, find the solution and offer it to them to carry out. Show that it can be done. All BEFORE paying them. This will at least give them some incentive in rectifying it.

 

[opps]

Image #2 the gap directly above the handle looks iffy. It doesn't seem to be constant. it might be a trick of light in the photo, but the lock edge of the door doesn't look straight. How did they deal with the reverse side of that door? I guess they had to add a new door stop.

Other than finding a correctly sized door, the right hand architrave needs to be moved to the right to maintain consistency. That will however require remedial decorating.

As a decorator, faced with that, once the architrave has been moved I would quote 15 mins to sand the plaster edge flat, if it has been re-skimmed, then another hour or so to patch fill as required. That doesn't include repainting the plaster though.

I can see why you are not happy.