Fixing doors and door handles- recommendation

[citylover]

I had three problems, dodgy door handle, a dodgily hung door and a front door that needed replacing. For the door handle I got my handyman to have a look and he told me to get a new barrel and then he would fix it. Well, first I got the wrong sized barrel and then when I got the right one he didn't fix it properly and all that cost a fair bit in my time, wasted barrel and paying for handyman, so I got another handyman, highly recommended on these threads, to look at it. He checked it out and then started to explain to me all the myriad things wrong with it, to which I wanted to scream, 'It's a Door handle!! Just fix the blasted thing!', & decided to try elsewhere, fed up of all the time it was taking.

By chance I had to go into the locksmith on Lordship Lane and I asked if they fixed handles too and they said yes, at ?60 an hour, at which I nearly choked on my coffee. But, being desperate at this point I got them round (Scott, to be precise) and he had a look, and said he could fix it, no problem. Music to my ears, so, since, in fact none of them worked properly I thought I might as well get them all done in one fell swoop and he said he could do the lot in 2 hours. The handles were too heavy and all pointed downwards so I needed 10 new handles and I asked him to just select some decent cheap ones for me, because frankly, door handle catalogues are not of interest to me, and that saved me time also. He then came back in his van with EVERYTHING handle-related one could possibly need and polished off the lot in the 2 hours as promised. No having to disappear off to the shops for screws, barrels etc. etc- all in the van!! So, although I initially almost choked on the fee I have to admit this was money well spent and saved me many hours of exasperation faffing around with head-scratching handymen. I think they?re moved now, but it?s Callow locksmiths.

One of the doors wouldn't stay closed, though, because it wasn?t hung properly so I got Fahren, who I found on the forum, round to fix it. Using a new person from off here is always a stressful experience (Is he who he says he is?? Am I going to be ripped off Again? etc etc) but in this case it was a job well done for a fair price- so I got him back to put a new front door on, also well done. Very helpful guy who is nice to deal with. He does lots of other stuff too. 07908 679340

[F.C Building]

Thank you very much, glad I could help.