Small Old Doors

Shoutcast Ireland

Hello i recently bought a house but most of the doors upstairs are the smaller type doors and they need to be replaced but cant seem to find anywhere that sells them? do they need to be custom made?

ciarang85

Did you try a salvage yard? I have been in one or two over the past year and the mostly would have a big range of old doors all shapes & sizes, did you have a look on adverts or donedeal?

What are the dimensions of the doors by any chance?

magicbastarder

you mean they're shorter than off the peg doors you can buy now?
i had that problem once, and replaced the skins on the doors - had to strip the old skin off and replace with (i think 3/16 ply).

Shoutcast Ireland

ciarang85 wrote: »

Did you try a salvage yard? I have been in one or two over the past year and the mostly would have a big range of old doors all shapes & sizes, did you have a look on adverts or donedeal?

What are the dimensions of the doors by any chance?

In height wise they are around 72 inches.

Shoutcast Ireland

magicbastarder wrote: »

you mean they're shorter than off the peg doors you can buy now?
i had that problem once, and replaced the skins on the doors - had to strip the old skin off and replace with (i think 3/16 ply).

Doors are moldy and rotten.

magicbastarder

Shoutcast Ireland wrote: »

In height wise they are around 72 inches.

yeah, that sounds similar to my issue - by the time you would trim down off-the-peg doors to fit, you'd have left them very flimsy.

tabby aspreme

Can you put up a picture, are they actually rotten, or do you just not like the look of them.

Shoutcast Ireland

tabby aspreme wrote: »

Can you put up a picture, are they actually rotten, or do you just not like the look of them.

The qs said they were rotten and they have mold,
one door is 72,one is 74 the others are 76.5

the_pen_turner

are they ledged and bracked doors. you can buy them but the measurments mightn't be standard.
you could get some made .

any decent carpenter should be able to make them up


I'm making one at the moment for a job. nothing fancy just 5.25"x 1.25" white deal.

recipio

They may be 'rotten' but they are part of the fabric of the house. Instead of making bright shiny new doors could you ask a joiner to restore them. ? Even with patches in them they will look better than new doors.

the_pen_turner

Have you picture s of the doors. We could give a better answer