Cottage doors - where to get plans/buy?

[Dibble]

I'm after some "new" doors for chez Dibble - it's a small 200 year old cottage (fnarr), but the only remaining original features are the beams downstairs.

I'm after replacing the crappy eggbox internal doors with some cottage style doors. I need five in total, in 3 different sizes. All the main DIY stores do them, but they're standard sizes, and can't be cut down enough to fit.

I'm after something like these type of doors:





Does anyone know of a supplier that won't cost the earth, or even better, somewhere I can download plans to make them myself (preferably free)? Google is NOT my friend at present.

[MrV]

Cheap way of doing it, just use soft wood T@G flooring

How competent a Diyer are you ? and do you have a saw,planer hammer nails and large sash clamps thats about the basic tools your need oh and a tape

[C Lee Farquar]

I had some made years ago by a reclamation yard, so much nicer in old wood and weren't very expensive.

[Dibble]

MrV said:

Cheap way of doing it, just use soft wood T@G flooring

How competent a Diyer are you ? and do you have a saw,planer hammer nails and large sash clamps thats about the basic tools your need oh and a tape

I'm happy enough to make the doors up, but I was wondering how viable they'd be in softwood T&G. I suppose the only real way to know is to give it a go and get one hung.

[tubbystu]

Dibble said:

MrV said:

Cheap way of doing it, just use soft wood T@G flooring

How competent a Diyer are you ? and do you have a saw,planer hammer nails and large sash clamps thats about the basic tools your need oh and a tape

I'm happy enough to make the doors up, but I was wondering how viable they'd be in softwood T&G. I suppose the only real way to know is to give it a go and get one hung.

Softwood T&G is how much different to pine plank ? Zero I'd guess for proper T&G rather than some reconstituted mush shaped to look like timber.

As for who and where, it depends a tadd on where chez dibble is located I suppose.

http://www.countrydoors.co.uk/ledgeandbracedoorspa...

Made to measure and inc VAT @ £115 each.



I have no affiliation nor detailed knowledge of countrydoors.co.uk, just Google is my friend this afternoon

HTH

[Dibble]

Cheers tubbystu, looks just like what I'm after.

However, I should've mentioned I'm a right skinflint, and don't really want to pay £115 per door. Although I'm not sure that making them myself would necessarily be any cheaper, as I've no idea on the cost of wood.

[sherman]

Phone your local joiner. They may suprise you with the price if they want the job.

[Dibble]

sherman said:

Phone your local joiner. They may suprise you with the price if they want the job.

That might be an option too, but the couple I've already spoken to didn't seem that interested. They must have plenty of other work on I guess, and five doors isn't going to make them rich.

[sherman]

Dibble said:

sherman said:

Phone your local joiner. They may suprise you with the price if they want the job.

That might be an option too, but the couple I've already spoken to didn't seem that interested. They must have plenty of other work on I guess, and five doors isn't going to make them rich.

Hint that depending on the work done on the doors there maybe other work for them. You never actually need to have any other work it will just make them more interested.

[Dibble]

sherman said:

Dibble said:

sherman said:

Phone your local joiner. They may suprise you with the price if they want the job.

That might be an option too, but the couple I've already spoken to didn't seem that interested. They must have plenty of other work on I guess, and five doors isn't going to make them rich.

Hint that depending on the work done on the doors there maybe other work for them. You never actually need to have any other work it will just make them more interested.

Ooh, sneaky. I like it...

[MrV]

Dibble said:

Cheers tubbystu, looks just like what I'm after.

However, I should've mentioned I'm a right skinflint, and don't really want to pay £115 per door. Although I'm not sure that making them myself would necessarily be any cheaper, as I've no idea on the cost of wood.

You should be looking at about £40/50 a door for the wood ,use a timber merchants though rather than a builders merchant as the latter will rob you blind.

[JABB]

Dibble said:

I'm after some "new" doors for chez Dibble - it's a small 200 year old cottage (fnarr), but the only remaining original features are the beams downstairs.

I'm after replacing the crappy eggbox internal doors with some cottage style doors. I need five in total, in 3 different sizes. All the main DIY stores do them, but they're standard sizes, and can't be cut down enough to fit.

I'm after something like these type of doors:





Does anyone know of a supplier that won't cost the earth, or even better, somewhere I can download plans to make them myself (preferably free)? Google is NOT my friend at present.

The first door is an Oak internal door. The second shown is an external oak door.
If on a budget, the pine or softwood doors are ok-ish, but to add value, I would go with Oak all day long.
It appals me how many nice barn conversions were done and then they skimped on the doors and stairs and used pine.

[Dibble]

JABB said:

The first door is an Oak internal door. The second shown is an external oak door.
If on a budget, the pine or softwood doors are ok-ish, but to add value, I would go with Oak all day long.
It appals me how many nice barn conversions were done and then they skimped on the doors and stairs and used pine.

First choice would be oak, but it depends on cost. The pictures were really just to show what kind of thing I'm after, ie legded/braced or ledged/braced/framed.