To think the council should fix this?

[beetty]

My front door and the frame don't join together properly so it's absolutely freezing in my house.
The drafts are so bad.
They have been out today and say nothing they can do.
Can I have your opinion?
Or advice what I can do please?
It's so cold

I think maybe I'm used to the pvc door why this door is feeling a lot colder.
I've never been in a property with wooden doors,I didn't realise they needed any gap.

Do you mean the gap between the door and the door frame? Because that looks completely normal. Without a gap the door wouldn't open.

Or do you mean the gap between the frame and the wall in the second picture? You can fill that yourself quite easily.

Get a door curtain. We have one and you can feel the difference when it's open or closed.

In real life the gap does look much bigger along the top.
It does look like a poor fitting door to me.

As others have said - get a roll of draught excluding tape and whack it round the frame. I can't believe you actually got them to send out a tradesman for that to be honest.

It doesn’t look poorly fitted. There has to be a natural gap for the good to open.

“It does look like a poor fitting door to me.”

Possibly it could be on better, but that doesn’t mean the council will replace it before time.

They tend to do improvements on a rolling programme, so you won’t get a new one just for asking. That’s just the way it is.

Surely that gao is the width of the hinges? So it opens? Hard to tell from a photo. But it really doesnt look any differant to any wooden door ive seen. I have always lived in period properties though.

If you could feel how freezing it was
You would understand why

At the top of the door there's a big space where the door isn't aligned properly

Post a photo of that gap?

From the bottom of the door up is a tiny gap,you get further to the top the gap becomes wider

I'm not at home now or I would do.

I would hang a curtain pole and put a heavy fabric curtain over it. You will never fully exclude draughts round a door unless you have a plastic one. A good heavy curtain would look better too. Years ago you never saw a door without one

Looks totally normal to me

I don’t understand why your whole house is so cold because of that gap? As I pass my doors I can feel the draught and the cold but the rest of the house is fine.

If you look at first pic the gap clearly gets wider the closer it gets to the top of door

It's a weird set up
You come through front door and there's the stairs.
You go upstairs and there's the hall with the living room,bedroom etc
So really a flat I guess
I say house as I have private gardens etc

Well you have been given lots of options here to fix it so hopefully that’s problem solved!

No window, room, door frame is perfectly finished to the millimetre and yes, sometimes there will be a marginal difference, that’s normal.

Ok, I don’t understand why your flat is so cold then!

Just a shame the council don't seem to want to maintain own property's
Be on the phone sharp enough if I paid my rent late tho.

It shouldn't be so cold your shivering tho surely
Heating on full

It's a weird set up
You come through front door and there's the stairs.
You go upstairs and there's the hall with the living room,bedroom etc
So really a flat I guess

Absolutely nothing weird about that. It's a pretty standard set up for a flat!

So all of you would be happy to have your front door like that?
I've never ever known a door with gaps like that

Just a shame the council don't seem to want to maintain own property's

Perhaps move to the private sector? Or buy?

So all of you would be happy to have your front door like that?

It looks normal 🤷🏻‍♀️