: That is how I always specify my doors:
This is starting to feel like a trend. I really don’t understand how someone with many years of experience in his field would think this is OK.
Our renovation involves several new interior doors. On the initial design specification against which several suppliers provided quotes, we noticed that for each door there were three items requested:
- CYLINDRE PROFIL EUROPEEN
- ENSEMBLE QUINCAILLERIE DE PORTE : Serrure Monopoint
- ENSEMBLE : Béquillage pour Porte
This seemed like slight overkill, to give all the doors locks like an exterior door (albeit with a different mechanism), but we were assured that the initial quote was really just for budgeting and to help with vendor selection, the final bill would be adjusted to match the work done. The concept included a gite, so having some seurity on the locks wasn’t outside of the realms of possibility.
Final price for these was charged at:
€32 + €52 + €46 = €130 per door.
This included the bathroom doors which lock with a simple twist on the handle, not a key.
This is a Euro Cylinder, €50 gets you a good one, so €32 for a cheap one could be judged ‘fair’:
There are indeed single point locks which take these euro cylinders. €13 regardless of taking a cylinder or having a key. So a more generous mark-up here.
Finally, the handle is added, with a deadbolt in the case of the bathrooms. This isn’t the style we have, but it shows the lock actuation mechanism is built into the handle. Again, a fair markup fonsiddering fitting this is just placing the two screws.
Note that there is no additional lock required for these bathroom style handles.
So where is the problem? We were invoiced for 7 euro cylinders but only received 3 locks which have keys. The remaining 4 were simple mortice locks where the locking mechanism is not an additional cost over the base lock.
That is €128 lost due to not querying the minute details of the architect’s initial specification.
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