door frame

Hi, I am doing up my house on a VERY small budget. I have bought some second hand pitch pine cottage doors complete with hinges and locks. All of them are too narrow for the 8 door frames I replacing doors in. Is there an easy way to add to the frames/jams without it looking too bodged? I'm...

Hello all, At the end of the very hot dry summer some 1-2 mm cracks appeared in the upstairs spare room at the back of my property, my guess because the wet soil dried out. From previous posts I've seen I don't think I need to worry about subsidence. The crack runs vertically along the edge...

Little conundrum here. 2 doors next to each other (well about 300mm between but near enough). One door opens inwards into the room, the other opens outwards (into the ensuite). Doors are the same height but of course the door linings are different heights on the underside of the top rail (due...

Our carpenter put a doorframe in an existing aperture, but only the same width as the single skin brickwork. The walls were then subsequently dot-n-dab'd by a plasterer, and skimmed. The plasterer said that the doorframe needs to be replaced with the correct width timber? Is he correct? I...

Hello and thank you for reading this post. My dog got stuck in a bedroom and tried to get out by gnawing at the base of each side of the door frame. The damage isn't a lot but I'd like to repair it. I attach two photos. What is the easiest way to repair this damage please? Thank you for reading.

I have a rubber seal on my exterior door sill. The groove in which it was originally seated had rotted at one end which I have now filled with a two pack filler (ronseal high perfomance filler). Since I had to re-mould the groove the rubber seal will no longer remain seated firmly inside the...

Hello all, long time reader first time poster, so please be gentle with me :) I'm replacing my front door because it is awful, ugly, warped, and drafty. My house is old (cira 1918) and a bit weird. Take a look at the picture attached. Before I can hang my new door I need to replace the wooden...

Hi all, been gutting the dining room this past month and now I am down to fitting new door frames, architraves and skirting etc. My door way goes into the kitchen and is on the left side of the wall with only half the door frame peeking out from the wall past the plasterboard, should I: just...

Hi guys, I just moved into a new place and I am slowly decorating and uncovering slowly but surely odd works that look like they need to be properly redone. Or they seem covered up. the walls simply crumble away it's quite alarming it's like there has been flood damage or something like...

Hello, recently moved into 70's semi. Next to the door to the main bedroom is a section of glass panels, floor to ceiling, which form part of the bedroom perimeter wall. Previous owners cover over with wallpaper. I want to fill it in, so once all decorated it will look like a normal wall. See...

Hi. We are trying to fit an architrave. Both of the walls are with a bit on an angle and the wall on the right is so close that even the smallest architrave is too big. Plese help

Hi folks, could I ask for your opinion please? I have a period property, and I'd like to fit my architrave with corner blocks and plinths. However, our dining room has two doors, both with their door jambs pretty much against the next wall (please see the attached photo). I've seen this problem...