old style door architrave off the shelf?

[Glenbirnie]

Hello,

Im renovating an old house 1928 and need some internal finishings. Door facings, skirtings, timber cornice etc

I have had a quote to run off identical matches to what is original and as expected its silly money.

Some rooms are completly new or have not had the original timber in place before and also a lot will have to be painted to match in with existing rooms so the new timber I will put in doesnt need to be 100% identical. Something that has the style of older times will suffice.

Can anyone recomend anywhere who sells a range of mouldings etc off the shelf?

Thanks

 

[foxhole]

Timber merchants.

 

[Glenbirnie]

Timber merchants.

I tried ASDA but they didnt have, I never thought of timber merchants!

Joking aside I mean specific companys. Jewson dont, B&Q trade dont, Build base dont.

Is there anyone specialising in off the shelf old style facings other than complete bespoke from a local joinery shop?

Cheers

 

[Deleted member 174758]

Joking aside I mean specific companys. Jewson dont, B&Q trade dont, Build base dont.

Is there anyone specialising in off the shelf old style facings other than complete bespoke from a local joinery shop?

Even if there were the problems with mouldings can often be particular to a given area or even a given joinery shop/local timber merchant. I used to work in a shop where, because we had taken over other firms as the owners retired, we ended-up with several thousand sets of knives for skirtings, architraves, dado and picture rail, door panel mouldings, etc dating in style from Victorian to modern. We probably used to get 5 or 6 enquiries a year for repro mouldings to match, and we couldn't always match them, so the "silly price" you were talking about would actually include the cost of making-up templates and grinding a set of custom knives and limiters (often £70 to £100 before you put them near the machinery nowadays). With a change in the legislation 15 years ago MOST of those old knives (or rather the cutterblocks they were used on) became illegal and many joinery shops simply skipped them. So that probably leaves you with the local joinery shops who may have a match or a near match to the pattern you require having done one for somebody else with deeper pockets, but even then it won't be that cheap as you'll also have to pay a one-off set-up charge for the spindle moulder or 4-sider. It can sometimes be easier to find a near match and replace all the sets within one room with that rather than trying to find a dead match

 

[Glenbirnie]

Thanks go to speak to folk who know their stuff.

 

[foxhole]

Timber merchants.

I tried ASDA but they didnt have, I never thought of timber merchants!

Joking aside I mean specific companys. Jewson dont, B&Q trade dont, Build base dont.

Is there anyone specialising in off the shelf old style facings other than complete bespoke from a local joinery shop?

Cheers

The sheds always have limited range, that's why I suggested local timber merchant, have a much bigger range.

 

[Harbourwoodwork]

Try ringing around a few good trade timber marchants ask if they stock lambs
tongue or ovolo architraves and skirtings ,that usually does it for that period,
If they don't know what your on about move on

 

[gregers]

alsfords should be able to point you in the right direction.