DIY or are you looking to hire someone to do it?

Hire it done - sorry I should have clarified

$500-$700 here for someone with insurance and the needed new door of decent quality. Chuck in a truck and a box store hollow core door would obviously be cheaper. And much riskier.

I was gonna say $500 but LWO beat me to it. That is assuming that this isn't an exterior door. And the new door is a prehing. Add more if someone wants to buy a slab door and try to have it cased on site.

tell u what, there is risk and liability involved to the carpenter the minute one drives into your driveway, its elevated risk the minute one touches your old door, its risk when one hangs the new door, its risk to get said door from the store safely onto sawhorses to cut jambs and then into your laundry room.

now lets talk bout skill to properly hang door, then lets talk about a half day schedule conflict. fuel, phone cosult time, tools insurance invoicing etc

yep $500 sounds about right....

I received a quote for $800 - so a little pricey then?

And this is an interior door - not exterior.

Tough to tell if $800 is too much as we really do not know the extent of the work required to switch out the door or what type of door it is exactly, prehung, wood, masonite, trim type?

If, for instance, the door opens toward you and is hinged on the rh edge, if you want a door that swings away from you and has the hinges on the lh edge, that is the same door swing. So, if your guy can take it out part & parcel in reusable condition, you don't need a new door, and you aren't changing the swing. It's literally flipping the door set to the other side of the wall/RO.

If this is just a painted wood door, not textured, not metal, not varnish-work, not hollow-core, it can be done; but if any on the "nots", then you really can't change the swing or it is more costly than a proper replacement would cost.

Casey

The work will consist of reframing the doorway and installing a new hollow door. In addition to switching it from out to in and left to right. Also using same hardware.

$500-$700.00 in labor, plus the cost of the materials.

I installed a fiberglas impact man door in a garage for $1,500.00 labor and materials last week.

If most of this is labor, get a solid door.

We are only getting a cheap hollow door. So, 800 is too expensive, right?

No, it depends. Where are you located? What is the reputation, licensing, insurance, worker's comp, etc. of your contractor? Painting included?

$800 to remove and replace a pre-hung hollow core door is outrageously expensive. At those rates, things would never get done.

You need to get more quotes. Called a big box - $150 labor, licensed and insured. Door about $60. Expensive area.

Please update us!

@snookums2: " $60 door" = junk "$150 labor = Illegal Mexican"

So let's say the guy has to come and size up the job, then he goes back to HD and picks up a door and returns to the client's home. He's already got 2 hrs into the job + a couple of gallons of gas. Remove all door trim - carefully - pull the nails. Remove old door, remove lock set. This has to be atleast another 1 1/2 hrs. I'd give him another 1 1/2 hrs to install (perhaps having to trim the new door) and replace the molding. This is 5 man hours = $30 an hour.

We didn't count the time to run back and forth to the truck, nor clean-up. Sounds like the guy is going to work at a frenetic pace - that gets old.

Nobody can make a decent living on $30/hr when you consider licenses, insurance, etc. And what is the guy going to do with 3 hrs at the end of the day?

$600 - $750 seems reasonable to me.