Large doors. Bugger. Help?!

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Currently renovating DPs flat to put on the market...

Taken all the doors and skirtings off to be replaced. The doors are really old fashioned and IMO not appealing to young first time buyers (although all the older people, our parents, grandparents etc love them).

Turns out they are not a standard sized doors and we can't find replacements anywhere. Anybody have any tips for weird sized door shops or anything.

Not looking to spend much... the original plan was cheap white ones from B&Q as it's just to freshen it up for selling.

Old doors can't even go back on bevause of something to do with the handles and new skirtings DP did explain but I wasn't really listening

what size ARE they?

how old is the flat?

You can’t find any anywhere at all? You will have to have them made to order then.

Erm, those old doors probably added value as an original feature, what period were they and how many were there? Do you still have them? If so you could maybe strip them back to the wood, they can we dipped to take off old paint and maybe planed to make them fit the new architrave?

860 x 2040

755 x 2040

The flat was built in 1920 I think so old. Typical old granite flat, very high ceilings as well

It sounds like it would be cheaper to amend the handles and skirting and put the old doors back on.

otherwise you are faced with getting them made.

Surprised your DP did not check this in the first place tbh.

also puzzled why they were removed in the first place tbh!

but yes, dipping and planing or changing whatever it is DP said makes them not fit might well work out cheaper.

Well we had a joiner looking for them and he said he can't find them anywhere and we've just started looking but not coming up with much at all.

The doors were a "period feature" I suppose, but they were also old fashioned, scratched to help (by previous owners cat) had but divets in the and had these bloody awful huge handles that keep falling off and can't seem to be decided back into place without leaving a viable hole, so they had to go.

We do still have them and they are already just plain wood... did think about having them "repaired" so to speak but it's the handle and locky bit that's the problem, the locky bit is too big for the new skirtings

1920s with high ceilings... doors were probably gorgeous. Can you retrieve them?

So just buy a different handle and use that.

change the locky bit or the skirtings.

but why were the skirtings changed to narrower ones? seems odd.

great that you still have them, the scratches etc can be sorted quite easily. I did this at a friend's house. It was quite therapeutic and nice to look at a good result at the end. It's all sortable.

Honestly I haven't been too involved other than stripping the paper... we were trying to modernise it... the skirtings were horrible great big thing wavey things with 65000 coats of globby paint on them.

Will speak to him about salvaging the doors 😂

put the originals back.

If some philistine buys it and wants to destroy the nation's heritage, let them cope with the trouble and expense.

Piglet that made me lol.

I can't picture wavy door frames. But anyway, new locks and handles should be able to be made to fit in the narrower frame - though I remain puzzled that the frame is narrow, DP could have got a new frame with the same depth?

I would certainly have left the doors alone, someone might love them and I doubt that changing them will add any value to the place but I am not Kirstie Allsopp so I'm not sure.

Get the originals back, you crazy person! Are you mad?

Yes, you’ve just stripped out a lot of value. Restore the doors and put them back.

www.skirting4u.co.uk/all-skirting-boards/842-ogee-2-mdf-skirting-board

And you’ll have to put the skirtings back too ensuring that they are he same height as the originals. Rooms with high ceilings looks awful with tiny modem skirting boards.

oh sorry OP meant wavy skirting?

your DP hasn't really thought this through, IMHO....if you mean those sorts of skirtings I can't imagine any buyer being put off by them.

I also can't see what it's got to do with locks but I am probably picturing this all wrong.

Can you not just get plain ones like this and cut them to size?

www.doorweb.co.uk/internal-doors-c1/moulded-doors-c128/premdor-internal-white-primed-paint-grade-plus-smooth-flush-door-p1160

And if you need fire doors, just get a fire door blank and cut them to size

www.builderdepot.co.uk/plywood-door-blank-fire-door-fd30.html

I sympathise. I've been having door troubles ... I've spent many an hour on door websites!

God, imagine taking off original doors and putting one of those in its place.

I’m a young(ish) ftb and one the things I fell in love with in my new house was the old doors with massively wrought iron locks. Not everyone wants modern ‘new’ stuff, I think you should rehang them and find a way of repairing the damaged bits.