Can you restore DAMAGED VISTORIAN INTERNAL DOORS and if so....

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Anyone know somewhere in SW/S London that does it?

Thanks

Anyone?

Was wondering the same - our doors have in the past been covered in hardboard and gloss paint and i'm dying to pull one apart and see what's underneath. What about contacting LASSCO? They sell reclaimed doors and may be able to point you in the right direction.

You can, yes - our doors were once covered in hardboard and painted in gloss - previous owners to us ripped off the hardboard, put period handles on and repainted - we then had them stripped and varnished. you can see that they've had a hard life if you look hard, but for all normal purposes they look fine!

yes of course. do you mean damaged with paint and hardboard or worse? are teh panels broken?

if its paint its best to take them off and take them to a place that dips them. you can scrape the paint off yourself but its VERY labour intensive

One of them has a chunk missing and has obviously been repaired with wood filler. They are all painted and most of them don't close because the door furniture (right term?) is either broken or don't work.

sounds like teh previous owners were a bit...rough??? perhaps you want to price handles, locks, escutcheon plates etc before you start as they are not cheap

not sure what can be done about large areas of filler.....you coudl aways got one door done ( teh worst one) and see what you think. If it was really awful you woudl just have to prime it and repaint it I think

Be careful of dipping - you may end up with big splits in the panels.
Use a stripper but make sure that it's suitable for lead paint. Never use a hot air gun on old doors - the lead in the paint can vapourise & you breathe the fumes.
Stripped doors look good but it's more in keeping with a Victorian house to repaint them with an eggshell finish. Farrow & Ball do oil based eggshell or you can get it through a Dulux Trade outlet.
Have fun - old houses are great!

and alot of work but I love the history I imagine is attached....

I do know somewhere that does it

At the bottom of White Hart Lane in Barnes/Morlake there is a place that restores chairs, doors etc and strips them too.

Sorry I don't know what they are called but the shop is on the little roundabout at the bottom of white hart lane, facing the pub (the white hart)

Thanks Countess. I will see if I can find it.

There's also an excellent place for reclaimed door furniture etc out on the A11.
In fact they sell all sorts of reclaimed items.
It's called Solopark.

Our Edwardian ones are fairly mank with splits in the panels and filler (probably some homemade asbestos concoction LOL) so, after much debate with dh, I've conceded that there's just no charm left in them and we're going to go for twee Homebase Edwardianesque glazed ones. The fact that most of them don't shut because they've warped so far from the doorframes in places is another factor.
One step further away from the Boho fantasy .