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Anyone have a wooden front door and PVC windows?

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Quootiepie · 10/04/2007 13:41

I know, but...

We have normal PVC windows and was out looking at front doors, and I really liked a wooden one. It's just pretty standard, neither traditional or farmhousey, just normal. The PVC ones I have seen are horrid, only one comes close and even then it looks yuk. Does anyone have one? It is going to be next to some lovely PVC cladding type stuff aswell (well, it is about 2 meters away). Any thoughts anyone?
Thanks xXx

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Tigana · 10/04/2007 13:42

We do and so do at least half the houses round here (victorian terraces.

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Quootiepie · 10/04/2007 13:43

O. I presume they are painted though? The one I like would be just stained.

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HoppyDaddy · 10/04/2007 13:44

Yes and I was amazed at how much louder outside noises are and how the drafts get in, despite having draft excluders.

oliveoil · 10/04/2007 13:45

yes

we have the original front door (I think) as 4 houses on our row have the same one

others are plastic and look horiible

ours is painted and has a stained glass thing at the top

KTeePee · 10/04/2007 14:48

I loath PVC front doors....are far worse than pvc windows imo.

We have a wooden door (not original but in an older style) - which we have put in - and the windows are pvc (replaced before we bought the house so no soul-searching decisions to be made there...)

MrsBadger · 10/04/2007 14:56

yes
PVC front doors seem to be without exception ghastly

much more choice in wood

Aloha · 10/04/2007 14:59

PVC front doors are absolutely hideous! It would really, really put me off a house if I was buying, much more so than windows. Get a wooden one roughly in keeping with your house.

Lua · 10/04/2007 15:03

I agree that PVC doors are hideous! But ours came with our house
Has anyone been crazy enough to take their PVCs door out and put wood in?
QP, I think i would paint the door as not too clash too much with my hideous PVC windows....

Aloha · 10/04/2007 15:06

I think you would add several grand to the value of your house if you removed the pVC door and replaced it with a stylish wooden one painted a good colour and with nice chrome door furniture (knobs and numbers!)

oliveoil · 10/04/2007 15:13

we took a crappy door off our first house and put a nice one in, looked loads better

windows don't bother me as much, but doors do for some reason

Iota · 10/04/2007 15:15

I have a wooden front door and UPVC windows. Door is stained, but some people in the neighbourhood have painted theirs - both look fine to me

TheArmadillo · 10/04/2007 15:22

same as Iota.

Victorian Terraces here as well.

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Quootiepie · 10/04/2007 18:02

I live in a very 60's house, yellow ish brick and most the houses have PVC cladding - I think a painted wooden door would stick out. Unless you think I should just go for it and paint it? I was just going to varnish it...

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cece · 10/04/2007 18:05

I would always go for a wooden door, ours is a 1950's house with PVC windows but we do have a wooden door as do most of the street.

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Quootiepie · 10/04/2007 18:06

Maybe I should post a pic... you can sort of see what the front looks like. Or will someone recognise my house and stalk me? Erm, i'll go fiddle with my camera so you can all have a nose and advise me.

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EdieMcredie · 11/04/2007 12:39

Ooh PVC doors, yuck.

nappyaddict · 11/04/2007 12:52

you know what's really yuck. those brown pvc windows that are pretending to be wood!

GrumpyOldHorsewoman · 11/04/2007 13:13

I have same problem. 1870 Lodge house which has been messed about with (1970s extension ) and UPVC windows and doors. Can you just replace a uPVC door with a wooden one, or does the frame have to be removed and new frames etc put in? Any idea of cost? Can't stand my doors - windows bad enough, but living right beside an A-Road, I can see the benefit, but the doors are shite. And add to the fact that we always have to remember to lock it or DD2 can just pull the (low down) handle and let herself out.

littlerach · 11/04/2007 13:20

Nappyaddict, we have those and they are soooo minging.
In fact, that's how i describe our house to poeple coming round
"Yes, past the red phone box, then the house witht he vile brown double glazing and red agarage door".
Funny, they always find it easuly.

MerryMarigold · 11/04/2007 13:23

I think it's fine. Wooden front doors are lovely. 2 wrongs (or 25 wrongs) don't make a right!

hannahsaunt · 11/04/2007 14:04

We have original wooden door (Edwardian terrace) which badly needs replacing (job for this summer) and PVC windows which are so good someone knocked on our door last night to ask from where we had bought them and didn't realise they were PVC until they went up close to inspect & touch them.

Tinker · 11/04/2007 14:06

Not yet but am hunting Ebay for one. Have hideous plastic doors and windows!

nappyaddict · 11/04/2007 21:57

hannahsaunt what sort are they?

hippipotami · 12/04/2007 09:06

We have fab upvc sash windows - complete with the little curved bits at the bottom of the top half of each window - and they look very authentic and in-keeping with our victorian semi. We have the original victorian front door. Painted. Almost all houses in our road (mix of vic terraces and semis) have the same.

I really really really don't like upvc doors, they look 'cheap'....

nappyaddict · 12/04/2007 11:36

i know its ironic really as a lot of the time the pvc ones are much more than the wood ones!

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