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Title: Odd Size Doors
Post by Lectrician on Jan 10^th, 2010, 7:06pm

I have been changing the internal doors in my house, and have two left.

I have been fitting the pre-finished Wickes 'Regency' 6 panel doors.

The ones left are odd sizes. They are 530mm wide x 1980mm tall and 530mm wide x 1685mm tall.

Any ideas where I may source a close match?

Title: Re: Odd Size Doors
Post by Zambezi on Jan 11^th, 2010, 9:30am

I need an back door that is 1881 x 762mm, not having much luck :-/

Title: Re: Odd Size Doors
Post by Lectrician on Jan 11^th, 2010, 3:16pm

533mm is a 'standard', if not readily available size apparently. The height of the shorter door is not standard and I would have to cut a door down, assuming the cut comes between the top panels. I would have to infill the cut with some wood as obviously the doors are hollow and only made up with a 20mm frame.

I guess infilling is just a matter of cutting, removing the egg-crate material to a 20mm depth and inserting a new piece of machined timber with some PVA and clamping it up.

Title: Re: Odd Size Doors
Post by woodsmith on Jan 18^th, 2010, 8:05pm

Lectrician wrote on Jan 11^th, 2010, 3:16pm:

I guess infilling is just a matter of cutting, removing the egg-crate material to a 20mm depth and inserting a new piece of machined timber with some PVA and clamping it up.

Yep, at least 20mm, I'd normally fit something a little deeper.