The trade people stopped expecting
A properly hung door is quiet competence you feel twenty times a day: even margins all round, no scrape at the carpet's edge, a latch that catches first time. Around Willoughby, Cammeray and Northbridge's older housing, that also means dealing with frames that have settled out of square generations ago — which is precisely the job. We hang to the opening that exists, not the one the door factory imagined.
The work spans single sticking doors to whole-house programs: internal doors upgraded from tired hollow flushes to panelled or solid-core sets, entry doors with real presence (and real draught sealing), cavity sliders freeing up small rooms, bifolds opening living areas todecks, and hardware chosen to be handled daily for decades.
Architraves, skirting and the lines of a room
Trims are the frame a room hangs in. We repair and replace skirting and architraves with profiles matched to the originals — sourced where they still exist, machined where they don't — scribe them to floors that dip, and return them around corners the way the first carpenter did. After new flooring, this is the finishing pass that separates renovated from patched.
Straightforward to book
Send photos of the doors or trims in question and we can usually price the work from them, then confirm on site. Small jobs share visits with the handyman list; whole-house programs get a fixed written quote and a schedule that respects your week. Old doors and offcuts leave with us.
Common questions
How much does it cost to hang a door?
It depends on the door and the frame it's going into: supply-and-hang versus hanging a door you already own, hollow versus solid core, hardware, and how far the old frame has moved. Send photos and we'll price the work from them, confirmed on site as a fixed written quote — and several doors in one visit brings the per-door price down, which is why most clients do the house's worth at once.
Can you match my existing skirting and architrave profiles?
Yes — this is half the reason people call us over a handyman. Common period profiles we carry or source; genuinely obsolete ones we have machined to match. A repair should disappear, not introduce a fourth profile to a hundred-year-old hallway.
My door sticks or won't latch — replace or repair?
Usually repair — doors stick because houses move, hinges wear and paint accumulates. Easing, re-hanging and re-striking is quick work, often a handyman visit rather than a project. We replace when the door itself has failed, and we'll tell you which honestly.
Hollow or solid core inside the house?
Solid core where sound matters — bedrooms facing living areas, studies, the room with the drum kit — hollow core where it doesn't and budget does. Mixing them by room is normal; the difference walks past most people until the door closes.
Do you install cavity sliders and bifolds?
Yes — cavity sliders where a swinging door steals floor space (new framing included), and bifold or French sets opening living rooms to decks. These are carpentry-first jobs, which is why they run smoothly here.
