Dear experts,
I'm planning to have some work done on my hall - probably wood laminate flooring, new doors, new skirting and architraves, and repainting. The current doors are the cheapest kind of hardboard and eggbox construction, made worse by bad painting.
Unfortunately the doors are all peculiar sizes. Some examples:
1973 x 725 x 40
2020 x 720 x 44
2013 x 822 x 40
1891 x 818 x 40
None are within the 6mm that the "engineered" door manufacturers allow you to remove from a standard-sized door.
The options that occur to me include:
- Buy custom-made doors. Googling suggests that while a standard e.g. 4 panel pine door might cost £100, a custom-size version is more like £250 (and I've not yet found any that are 40mm thick).
- Buy doors that can be trimmed more than an engineered door can, e.g. presumably solid wood doors. Again they cost more, and how much can I actually take off?
- Re-build the frames to take standard door sizes.
What would you do?
Related question: is all of this work (fittings doors, laminate floor, new skirting and architrave) something that a joiner will do, or should I be looking for more than one specialist?
I'm planning to have some work done on my hall - probably wood laminate flooring, new doors, new skirting and architraves, and repainting. The current doors are the cheapest kind of hardboard and eggbox construction, made worse by bad painting.
Unfortunately the doors are all peculiar sizes. Some examples:
1973 x 725 x 40
2020 x 720 x 44
2013 x 822 x 40
1891 x 818 x 40
None are within the 6mm that the "engineered" door manufacturers allow you to remove from a standard-sized door.
The options that occur to me include:
- Buy custom-made doors. Googling suggests that while a standard e.g. 4 panel pine door might cost £100, a custom-size version is more like £250 (and I've not yet found any that are 40mm thick).
- Buy doors that can be trimmed more than an engineered door can, e.g. presumably solid wood doors. Again they cost more, and how much can I actually take off?
- Re-build the frames to take standard door sizes.
What would you do?
Related question: is all of this work (fittings doors, laminate floor, new skirting and architrave) something that a joiner will do, or should I be looking for more than one specialist?
