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Doorset specification
Rating (FD30, FD30S, FD60), core construction, size, finish, glazing and whether the leaf is a stock size or made to your opening. Non-standard openings move you into made-to-measure, which carries a premium.
Cost Guide
Fire Door Installation & Replacement Costs: How Quotations Are Built Up
This page explains how fire door installation and replacement work is actually priced, so you can read a quotation properly and compare two of them fairly. It does not publish Parsec Fire Doors prices, because a credible figure depends on your doors.
What You Are Really Paying For
A fire door quotation is rarely a door price with fitting added. It is a doorset, its frame arrangement, its ironmongery, the making good around it, the work needed to get at it, and the records produced at the end. Any one of those can be the largest line on the job.
Understanding the structure matters more than knowing an average, because the average hides the decisions that move your figure by hundreds of pounds per leaf.
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Frame and liner condition
Reusing a sound frame is cheaper than renewing it. A distorted, damaged or unsupported frame, or one that has been packed out historically, changes both the product and the labour.
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Ironmongery schedule
Hinges, closer, locks, latches, letterplates, viewers, signage and any hold-open or free-swing device. Higher-grade or specialist items, and anything needing commissioning, add cost per door.
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Access, occupancy and sequencing
Occupied dwellings, escape routes that must stay usable, out-of-hours working, access rounds and repeat visits all consume time, and time is the main labour driver.
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Making good and decoration
Perimeter fire-stopping, architraves, plasterwork, floor finishes at the threshold and redecoration are genuine lines that some quotations exclude. Exclusions are where like-for-like comparisons usually break down.
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Records and close-out
Product documentation, labelling evidence, per-door records and a close-out pack. Cheap quotations often omit this, and it is the part you need later.
Published UK Guide Figures (Indicative, Third-Party)
The figures below are reproduced from third-party published UK cost guides so you have a sense of scale. They are indicative market examples, cited with their source page and the date we checked it — they are not Parsec Fire Doors prices, not quotations, and not a commitment of any kind.
Adaston, “Fire Door Installation Cost Guide” (adaston.com/news/fire-door-installation-cost-guide/, accessed 18 September 2026) gives, as UK guide figures, roughly £350–£700 for a new internal timber fire door into an existing frame, about £750–£1,000 with a new frame, £900–£2,500 and above for steel fire door installation, £500–£2,000 and above per door on commercial work, and around £300–£600 for a replacement leaf using an existing frame; that source does not state whether VAT is included. South Coast Fire Doors, “Fire Door Costs 2026: Inspection, Repair & Replacement” (southcoastfiredoors.co.uk/guides/fire-door-cost/, last reviewed 11 September 2026, accessed 18 September 2026) gives a full certified replacement doorset supplied and fitted as usually falling between about £600 and £1,300 plus VAT.
Treat these as a sanity check on a quotation, not a target. Anything far below the bottom of these ranges usually signals a narrower scope — an uncertificated leaf, no frame works, no ironmongery, no making good or no records — rather than better value.
- Ranges are national and cross-sector; your building type and access matter more than the national average
- Check the VAT treatment stated by each source before comparing with a quotation
- Check what is excluded: frame, ironmongery, fire-stopping, decoration, waste, records
- Volume changes the per-door figure materially in both directions
- A quoted allowance for hidden frame works is normal and honest, not a loophole
- We will price against your door schedule rather than a published average
What We Need To Quote Your Doors
The fastest route to a firm, itemised figure is a door list. If you already hold a fire door inspection report or an FRA action list, that is usually enough to price most lines without a visit.
- Your inspection report or FRA action list, however it is formatted
- Door references and locations, plus the number of doors in total
- Rating required per door where you know it, and any smoke control requirement
- Photographs of the doors, frames and any existing labels or plugs
- Building type, occupancy and any access constraints or working-hours limits
- Whether you want a single programme price or phased batches
Where Costs Get Away From People
Most budget overruns we are asked to rescue are not caused by door prices. They are caused by scope that was never priced in the first place.
Doors that could have been repaired
Blanket replacement across a report is the single most expensive interpretation of it. Sorting repairable doorsets from genuine replacements first almost always reduces the total.
Frames priced as an afterthought
A leaf-only price collapses when the frame turns out to be unsound. Ask how frame works are handled before you accept, not after.
Doors nobody could get into
Access failures leave doors unfinished and revisits unpriced. Programmes that plan access rounds from the outset finish closer to their original figure.
Evidence produced twice
Where records are not produced as works proceed, someone pays again later to establish what was fitted. Close-out evidence is cheaper done once.
Related Pages
The pages that decide what your programme actually costs.
Frequently Asked Questions
Want a Figure for Your Own Doors?
Send us your door schedule, inspection report or FRA action list and we will return an itemised quotation per door reference, with any provisional allowances identified clearly.