It's not a totally mad price for sure but I think you ought to be able to do a lot cheaper if uPVC is an option, especially when you consider that timber is expensive and we got fanlights etc above.It's not an entirely bonkers price for a decent glazed door of that kind of size, especially if it includes fitting.
Is it priced all to be glazed, or with solid panels as per your existing ones?
Is the frame ok?Oh.
All glazed, they sent a drawing but any ideas on what the green diamond is supposed to represent?
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You just have to look at it more as an 'investment' than spend.i find this sort of thing very difficult (the prospect of 4k for a door). It's probably a childish notion that when you spend lots of money it should bring some joy, or pleasure, not just solve a problem. In my defence i did get the flat roof fixed last year, because non-leaking roofs are a sort of pleasure.
Perhaps you could find some ready made French doors and get someone to fit them? Depends on sizing of course.Doormakers throughout the land are going to wake up to emails from me, asking if they can help. I will sort it.
Ive searched, I have a weird shaped door requirement so far not seen any off the shelf stuff that would work.Perhaps you coudl find some ready made French doors and get someone to fit them? Depends on sizing of course.
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Ive searched, I have a weird shaped door requirement so far not seen any off the shelf stuff that would work.
Feel ok about it now, i think i will find a good door maker, the ten pane Georgian type ones like mauvais has would look good, would echo all the windows in the house and are pretty popular so lots of makers.
For sure you could get some PVCu ones for quite a bit less. But bimble expressed a desire for something nicer.I have to say that I am shocked at the door price and the fact that folks think that is normal, you can get a whole luxury fitted kitchen for the price of 2 doors like that, and it seems wrong - I am not surprised that you are asking around about it because I would too. For that price I would want it to open up a portal to the past or something.
I don't know that you could get anything cheaper but it is a shock - I mean come on I could get new double glazing in my whole flat for that
For sure you could get some PVCu ones for quite a bit less. But bimble expressed a desire for something nicer.
The idea of spending 2k or so (i'm just guessing at what the cheapest made to measure door might be, fitted) on a thing that would just be a bit of a downer every time I look at or use it is really unappealing, must admit, would rather go nail gun and marine ply for a while and then get something that i like.
I do love this house, its a proper house, don't want to install a permanent crap thing into it.
Look its got a cute hay loft (?) thing above.
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i think the olde fashionedy multi-paned ones are the way to go, like these sort of thing
That's how I feel about ours. My wife is on roughly the same page overall but on this one would have quite happily put uPVC in. We did replace old timber sashes with uPVC at the back of the house but the back of the house isn't pretty anyway.The idea of spending 2k or so (i'm just guessing at what the cheapest made to measure door might be, fitted) on a thing that would just be a bit of a downer every time I look at or use it is really unappealing, must admit, would rather go nail gun and marine ply for a while and then get something that i like.
I do love this house, its a proper house, don't want to install a permanent crap thing into it.
Yes I think that sort of thing is right for that sort of building.
That website is another one where I'd be suspicious about the lack of technical detail on exactly what I'm getting, and the fact they don't even show you any photos of real life versions of the type they are selling.
And 12 months is not a very long warranty. Some suppliers will offer 5 or 10 years (although as ever, claiming on these is not necessarily easy).
It does feel complex, and technical, and kind of important, i don't mind making mistakes like when i tried to paint the sofa but this is different. And double glazing salesman is a stereotype for a reason, as the people responding to my enquiry have reminded me already today.
Colin's website says "Our doors are manufactured from the best materials available such as Oak, Meranti and Utile to give the best possible strength, stability and finish available." Meranti and Utile? These are trees that i had never heard of, from far away lands. I don't know what it means, maybe Colin really knows his trees, or maybe he won't use the trees that people have heard of because meranti and utile sound cool but are cheaper.
it was on a thread called something like 'stupid ideas you've had'.. i'll do a search later. I saw a lady on youtube painting her velvet sofa and thought it looked like a grand idea, sofa's still crunchy.Hold on there is something I want to revisit here - please just say if you would rather not go into details but the phrase "when I tried to paint the sofa" has me in its grasp. Was it just a bare frame or was it upholstered? Don't feel you have to respond to this.
it was on a thread called something like 'stupid ideas you've had'.. i'll do a search later. I saw a lady on youtube painting her velvet sofa and thought it looked like a grand idea, sofa's still crunchy.
I think Accoya is very likely a good choice because it's something produced under controlled conditions and there's some way of tracing back to test certificates and things like that which you can be reasonably confident apply to the actual stuff your window is made of. This is unlike simply specifying by timber species, because there are still all sorts of unknowns like has it been seasoned or dried properly and so on.I picked Accoya principally because we had issues with the unknown timber doors and windows, particularly the doors which were rotting away in the frames (see the very first post on this thread) and wouldn't close properly in winter due to expansion, and I didn't want uPVC (or aluminium) for aesthetic reasons. I decided on it quite early on and read up a bit on it but I didn't fully explore all the options. It later turned out the old timber windows were from 1987 but I still don't know what timber exactly they were made of.
Accoya doesn't rot or get eaten and is stable, negligible expansion/contraction. The downsides are expense, although it seems to be equal to certain hardwoods, and the fact that the Radiata pine it's made from doesn't really have any interesting aesthetic properties of wood - basically no grain pattern. Not really a problem if painting, maybe an issue if staining is your thing. I think its ability to take paint might be slightly reduced too compared to normal timber but not to the point that it's a problem.