Cost to Install a Door Mail Slot The contractor cost to install a door mail slot is $84 vs. Doing it yourself for $45 and saving 46 percent. Enter your ZIP Code and adjust the cost for where you live. National Average Improvement and Repair Cost. Typically, mail slots have two plates on either side of the door, secured with wood screws. Occasionally, the front plate might be secured with bolts from the rear plate. In either case, just.

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• Before I became manager, one of the apartment’s front doors had a mail slot. There’s been some tenant turnover in that apartment and nobody complained until now. The new tenant wants the mail slot removed and I’m trying to figure out how to remove it in a way that looks decent.

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  Im not sure there is a good way to remove it that wouldn’t involve more labor than swapping the door out for a new one.

  Steel door?

  I would have to agree with above..there is no good way to fix that without replacing the door that I can think of. I know customer service is huge and you want to keep people happy but isnt that the type of thing you might just have to say sorry, it is the way it is. Unless they want to pay for the door.

  Whatever you do will look like a fix. It looks like a standard 6 panel steel door. Just order a non-prepped slab and mortise in the hinges and bore the lockset. Might even be able to pick up a cheap box store prehung and swap it out quicker than messing with the slab retrofit.

  Sorry…I know it wasn’t a good answer to your question.

  The other side is it’s a rental. They rented it as is.

  Andrew

  A Working Pro since 1995!

  Member since March 26, 2014.

  Farmer fix.

  Take your new router table and profile an edge of a rectangle the same width of the edge of the insets, just wide enough to catch 1/2 above/below the mail slot…

  Counter sink 4 self taping screws. Fill. Paint the whole door.

  Repeat on other side.

  Cut a bigger hole and put a window in it…..

  Good option!

  Andrew

  A Working Pro since 1995!

  Member since March 26, 2014.

  http://www.homedepot.com/p/Schlage-3-1-2-in-x-15-in-Bright-Brass-Push-Plate-SC8200PA3/100529593
  This should work, you could always cut it down some if wanted

  I was thinking a nice engraved brass/chrome/whatever plate with the apt # to screw over the hole, use the same plate (without the engraving) on the inside.

  Robert Shaw -Colorado Deck and Framing
  www.mysteeldeck.com

  This should work, you could always cut it down some if wanted

  I was wondering about using one of these plates. I wonder if it would look okay. Probably better than a mail slot

  You could always have the unit # engraved on it to dress it up… LOL

  You could always have the unit # engraved on it to dress it up… LOL

  You’re too slow…

  Robert Shaw -Colorado Deck and Framing
  www.mysteeldeck.com

  I’m with Brad – farmer fix all the way with that one, I wouldn’t know of a better way to do it then that. I don’t think I’d replace the door entirely unless you think the tenants would have a real issue, I think it would look fine.

  Yup over here doors are cheap enough to just swap it out.

  Dirty

  A Working Pro since 1988!

  Member since January 26, 2013.

  I’m with Brad – farmer fix all the way with that one, I wouldn’t know of a better way to do it then that. I don’t think I’d replace the door entirely unless you think the tenants would have a real issue, I think it would look fine.

  I would agree on this one. Unless you are renting a fancy schmancy sort of place, I don’t think this small of a fix is a big deal. But I suppose the door’s ‘curb appeal’ IS somewhat hindered if that is the first impression people will have of the place.

  John S

  I was going to say just replace the door. Seems like you did. Well done

  Did the hinges line up? I’ve never had good luck doing that without moving one or two a little. I did like the fill board on each side, I probably would have just covered the hole with a plate on each side with a number or name or something on it. Glad ya got it done.

  honestly i dont know why your worried about hwat the tenant wants. if theres nothing actually wrong with the operation of the door it shouldnt be touched, they are renting they dont own the unit.

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Today I am veering from theme a bit. Instead featuring doors all of one color, I am featuring mail slots.

You see, I live in a neighborhood where our mailboxes are located at the end of our street instead of at the end of our individual driveways. It’s a small street with only seven houses and that’s just the way it’s always been.

I hate it.

As you can imagine, on those evening when you realize at 9pm you never got the mail, instead of being able to skip down the driveway and grab it, I have to trudge down the street.

It bugs me, but what am I going to do?

As a result, one thing that always fascinates me are people who get their mail delivered right through their front door. You know, those mail slots built right into the door…

I love those!

I am going to suspend reality for a moment and not think about the fact that my dog Edgar would go absolutely berserk every time the our Mail Carrier put mail in and I am not going to mention how much the perceived energy loss through the mail opening would cause my husband to complain incessantly… …for now I am just going to showcase lovely doors with mailbox slots.

Enjoy!

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Wood Front Door With Mail Slot

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