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doors - where can I buy an unusual size?

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HippyHippopotamus · 13/04/2011 17:55

please help!

i need some new doors and can't find them in the right size

they measure 30' by 77' (3 of this size)
and 2 are 27' by 77'

has anyone got any ideas, please?

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HippyHippopotamus · 13/04/2011 20:31

bumping for the evening diy-ers Smile

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Littlefish · 13/04/2011 20:32

We ended up having to have ours made as they were 36/37 inches wide, and shorter than normal. They were horribly expensive. Sorry.

HippyHippopotamus · 13/04/2011 20:46

oh no! i didn't want to hear that littlefish! but thanks for telling me :(

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HippyHippopotamus · 13/04/2011 20:47

out of interest, how much is 'horribly expensive'? we're desperate to replace one door, any others would be a bonus

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NorbertDentressangle · 13/04/2011 20:55

According to DP the widths are OK as they are standard sizes so you could get away with buying 'off the peg' doors and cutting the height down an inch. However they would have to be solid wood ones not the ones that are made to look like wood but are actually hollow or filled with something else.

HarrietJones · 13/04/2011 20:58

We had to get ours made.£80ish each

Littlefish · 13/04/2011 21:31

I agree with Norbert - we had to cut a couple of doors down slightly to fit in some of our other odd shape doorways!

Our most expensive door was £300 I think - odd size, plus had to match the existing panelled doors.

HippyHippopotamus · 14/04/2011 08:57

harriet where did you get yours made?

norbert i think your dp might be wrong! i can't find any for our width either! i've re-measured and its not quite 30', its actually 755mm which is 29.7"

littlefish £300 for a door? Shock

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HippyHippopotamus · 14/04/2011 08:57

thanks all for your help!

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Littlefish · 14/04/2011 09:27

We bought a 27" door, I'm sure. I think it's the narrowest size you can get which complies with building regs or something like that.

HippyHippopotamus · 14/04/2011 09:37

any ideas where from?

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NorbertDentressangle · 14/04/2011 11:35

Just to give you an idea of whats available in an average DIY shop Wickes wooden panel doors seem to be available in widths of 27", 30", 33" (and even a few 24").

(I'm not saying to go to Wickes but thats just an idea of the standard sizes that most places sell.)

DP is a carpenter/builder so would use a builders merchants or local supplier if customers wanted ready-made doors.

BTW Harriet, £80 is v cheap for a handmade one!

VivaLeBeaver · 14/04/2011 11:35

ebay
salvage yards/websites

Littlefish · 14/04/2011 14:10

Our 27" door was from a trade place a bit like Wickes.

Norbert - I'm so glad you said that about £80.00 being v cheap. I was starting to think that we'd been majorly over-charged! I know that a lot of work went into our door because of the panelling etc.

GrendelsMum · 14/04/2011 21:58

We had a door made (again, odd size and designed to match an existing panelled door) and it cost loads more than £80, or even than £300, IIRC - our carpenter friend charged us for his time, plus timber costs, and it was a few days work to make.

mrmistoffelees · 15/04/2011 21:49

I'm sure I bought a 27" door from B&Q, have also shaved up to a few mil off standard size, non solid wood doors, you can only take up to a certain amount off and I can't remember how much.

I also had a joiner alter a couple of door frames so standard doors would fit which worked out a lot cheaper than getting doors made to fit.

Annb57 · 14/10/2018 17:39

We have odd size doors in our cottage before we realised this we bought a standard size door our carpenter told us it was fine to take 4 inches off the bottom of the door and 2 inches off the top as it was a solid wood door... it looks fine ..

JamMakingWannaBe · 15/10/2018 19:12

Ditto Gumtree or salvage yards. There's a MASSIVE door salvage place in Glasgow. Excellent advice and service. We got a "rare as hen's teeth" sized door there for £80 plus they delivered it to our local dip and strip company free-of-charge.

PigletJohn · 15/10/2018 19:52

I just had look at standard sizes from a door factory, and the widths go from 457mm to 926mm

The numbers may look very strange until you convert them to inches

457mm is 18" and 926mm is 3ft.

The biggest (front) door I have ever had was 3ft wide. I liked it a lot.

A shed chain will not stock them all, but a local door supplier (there will be one) should cheerfully order one for you after you have browsed through their catalogues shelf.

For examples, look here and click on dimensions to see the drop-down list.

Other manufacturers will be somewhat similar.

You aren't allowed to cut down fire doors much, but you can order one made to size. This is quite a common request.

Most doors can be cut down by a limited amount, this will be shown in the specification somewhere. Sadly very few are made of solid timber now, they're mostly veneered or faced with an "engineered" core which is usually scraps of wood glued together,or sometimes chipboard.

There are more trained joiners around than there are jobs for joiners. They are pretty certain to have made at least one door from scratch during their training, using just saw, chisel and plane. I had one made not long ago, he did it after work in two or three evenings. He spends his days fitting mass-produced doors and MDF skirtings.

Joinery workshops mostly cater to home renovators and use more machinery, often working to high budgets.

Late Victorian and Edwardian doors and windows will mostly have been machine-made in a works, using slow-grown softwood. Many of them are still in use after a hundred years, if they have escaped excessive damp or modernisation.

If you want a solid hardwood front door now, it will cost a lot (but maybe not as much as you can get charged for a composite door).

Don't get a hollow door, they're rubbish.

fabulousathome · 15/10/2018 20:07

Try Doors R Us in Ilford, Essex.

LittleBLUEsmurfHouse · 15/10/2018 22:46

Local carpenter / wood merchant

But the 30 by 77 is a standard (and very common, easiest / cheapest to get) door size - 76.2cm by 195.6 would be a standard 76.2cm by 198.1 door with 1.75cm shaved off top and bottom.

The 27 X 77 is also a standard size but less common. Again it would be a standard 68.6cm x 198.1 door with a little shaved off top and bottom.

I think maybe your issue in finding them is because you are putting in inches and even imperial doors they are sold in metric values now

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