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What teams read next

Notes from the showroom floor, written for contractors, architects and site managers who need to make a call before the tiler arrives.

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Site prep

What to prepare before a first consultation

Bring your door schedule, opening sizes and the floor finish level. It saves a second trip and stops frame profiles being ordered against the wrong wall thickness.

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Spec decisions

Choosing a service format that actually fits

Supply-only, supply-and-fit, or a staged delivery across a townhouse block. Each one changes lead times and how much site coordination lands on your foreman.

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Trade questions

Questions clients ask before starting

Meranti against oak veneer, aluminium for coastal units, hinge ratings for heavy pivot leaves. The answers that come up most often on bulk quotes.

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Clarifications for trade and project teams

Bulk orders, site schedules and shared deliveries raise questions that a single-door quote never does. These notes set out how we define the terms used in written quotes, so a contractor, an architect and a homeowner reading the same document reach the same conclusion.

What counts as one unit

A door unit means the leaf, its frame and the architrave supplied together. Hinges, locksets and handles are listed as separate line items unless a set is requested. When a schedule mixes meranti interiors with aluminium exteriors, the two are quoted on separate lines because lead times differ.

Sizes and rough openings

The 813mm and 914mm figures refer to the finished opening, not the leaf. Brickwork and timber-frame openings are measured on site before manufacture. If a wall is still being plastered, we note the measurement as provisional and confirm once the reveal is set.

Finishes and colour matching

Timber is a natural material, so grain and tone vary between leaves from the same batch. Stain and paint samples are matched as closely as the species allows, not to a flat colour code. Powder-coated aluminium is matched to a RAL reference agreed in writing before the frame goes into production.

Lead times and site readiness

Delivery dates assume the opening is ready to receive the unit. Tiling, screeding and painting schedules shift often on multi-unit sites, so we confirm a delivery window a week before dispatch. Units held on site before installation should be stored flat, off the floor and away from direct sun.

Installation responsibility

Supply-only orders leave fitting, sealing and final adjustment to the client's installer. Where we install, the scope covers hanging, hardware fixing and alignment. Making good after installation, such as patching plaster or touching up paint, stays with the main contractor.

Changes to a confirmed schedule

Adding or removing doors after a schedule is confirmed changes the cutting list, so it is treated as a new instruction rather than an amendment. Hardware already packed to the original backset may need to be re-issued if the door stile width changes later.

Anything not covered here, including site-specific access, crane requirements for oversized pivot leaves, or staged deliveries across Gauteng and the Western Cape, is confirmed in writing before an order is placed.

Why teams keep coming back to the same door supplier

Architects, developers and small contractors work on tight programmes. What they need from a door supplier is not a wider catalogue, but fewer surprises on site: correct sizing, hardware that matches across a whole block, and a delivery date that holds.

Schedules read, not guessed

Send a door schedule with opening sizes and we check each line against standard 813mm and 914mm frames or flag where a custom leaf is needed. Narrow stiles, pivot rough openings and non-standard heights get caught before fabrication, not after delivery.

One finish across the whole unit

On a townhouse block, mismatched handles and cylinders are the first thing a buyer notices. We group locksets, hinges and lever finishes per unit so every door in a development carries the same backset, the same satin nickel or matte black, and the same warranty position.

Timber and aluminium, honestly compared

Meranti and oak veneer suit interior work where staining and painting schedules still allow for sealing. Aluminium pivot and sliding units make more sense on coastal or high-rainfall exteriors where annual re-sealing is not realistic. We say which is which instead of pushing one material.

Installation planned around your trades

Doors go in after screeding and before final painting, and pivot thresholds need the floor level set first. We sequence deliveries so frames land before tiling starts and leaves arrive once wet trades are done, which keeps finished surfaces out of harm's way.

Gauteng and Western Cape coverage

Deliveries run from Johannesburg into Gauteng projects and out to Cape Town sites, with lead times confirmed per order rather than quoted from a generic table. Bulk orders for developments are handled separately from single-door DIY pickups.

Notes that survive handover

Every order ships with fitting notes, sealing and care instructions, and the hardware spec used. That paperwork matters when a client asks two years later which cylinder was fitted, or when a maintenance team needs to match a frame profile.

If you are weighing up materials and formats before committing, the solutions overview and our working approach explain how a schedule moves from first measurement to final fit.

What teams get from a door schedule

Architects, developers and small contractors rarely need a catalogue read back to them. They need a supplier who can hold a specification across forty units, keep frame profiles consistent between floors, and flag a rough opening that will not work before the bricklayer closes it up.

Send a schedule in whatever format you already use. We check leaf sizes against the 813mm and 914mm standards, confirm hinge and lockset backsets against the stile width, and come back with the questions that matter.

Working through a mixed timber and aluminium spec? See how the ranges combine or read how we sequence a delivery.

Bulk quotes for developments

Townhouse clusters and small apartment blocks priced per unit type, with hardware grouped so every door in a block matches. Lead times quoted against your build programme, not a generic estimate.

Frame and architrave matching

Profiles held across a project so a meranti frame on the ground floor sits flush with the same profile upstairs. Architrave supplied to suit the wall thickness you are actually building.

Installation around site schedules

Doors hung after tiling and before final paint, with frames set out early enough for screed levels. We work to the sequence your site is running, not the other way round.

Specification checks before order

Rough openings measured against leaf size, pivot units set out before floor finishes, and exterior aluminium confirmed for coastal or high-rainfall sites where timber would swell.

Hardware consistency

Locksets, cylinders and lever handles drawn from one finish range so a handover does not show three shades of nickel across a corridor. Backsets verified against stile width.

Delivery across Gauteng and the Cape

Consolidated loads to site, with doors crated and stacked to survive a working building. Weather seals and thresholds included where exterior units are specified.