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Hey everyone. I had some new doors fitted last week throughout the house. Three of the doors went into new frames. The joiner came highly recommended and to supply and fit six doors and fit two of the three new frames he charged the best part of £2k. The doors are your typical Oak cottage doors...

Hi, Thanks for reading. I have reduced a door jamb\frame. Where the architrave won’t cover the old jamb where it meets the brick wall, I’m looking for solution to stop future cracks appearing. I have secured the old jamb against the wall firmly with 4 long screws, with wall plugs evenly...

Morning we have a new build house, the pvc door has recently stopped closing as it used to. It’s very creepy, and has to be proper slammed to shut. The guy nipped by the other day and said he would need to unscrew the door frame and pull of a plastic trip to pull it in to line up with the door...

Hi Guys! Apologies if this not the right board to post in…! Our back door isn’t tight to the frame? I’ve uploaded some pictures of the issue. It juts out on the inside, at the top (handle side) in quite a pronounced way - which is allowing water inside in the rain. How can I remedy this...

Hi all, there's a small hole on the inside of our front door, been there since we moved in. It's small, about a finger's width across, but there's a noticeable cold draught coming through it so I want to seal it up. What's the best approach? Google suggests everything from stuffing it with...

Hi Looking for some advice. We have a UPVC door installed and the frame around the glass pane is loose on the inside and outside. The glass pane itself self is secure by plastic holders and screws. I’m getting rain through the frame of the door where the glass pane is. Should this be sealed...

Our door frames are about 135mm deep. We're having 35mm-depth doors fitted and we want the threshold to be hidden underneath the door. We currently have our finished wood floor running about 40/50mm into the doorframe (this is screwed down into place, not glued), and we're having our carpet...

How do you properly tile around a door frame when the backer board and tiles are positioned above the door frame? Should the tiles extend beneath the architrave so that it can be placed on top of the tiles, or should the tiling stop where it meets the architrave? Currently the back board is...

I need to move the strike plate in my bathroom door frame up a little bit because it's in the wrong place and the latch doesn't engage. However the frame has been mangled over time and there's nothing to put the screw into to hold it in place. The ideas I've had so far are: chisel out the hole...

I bought 4 pine doors which cutting limit on vertical axis is 3 cm. Filling is pine panels. I need to cut 5 cm so they can fit. Is it a problem in the short term? If damaged after cutting, can the bottom part be fixed or filled in with a foam to recover the door resistance? Doors: -...

Hi everyone, I need some advice on the size and structure of an RSJ beam that I should use for removing a load-bearing wall in my house. Project details: House: two-story terraced house (attached to neighbors on both sides) Location: ground floor, living room Load-bearing wall: dividing the...

Hi all, I saw a cool idea recently for a frosted "porthole" within a bathroom door to be able to easily if someone was in there with the light on. Anyone know where this can be bought from? Searching door portholes online give a load of results for normal/fullsize portholes - whereas I only...

Hi all I have 5 internal doors in my house, which have likely been there since the 70s. They appear to be constructed of a chipboard frame, and covered with a horrible orange wood veneer (some pics attached). As far as I can tell, the veneer is real wood (rather than anything plastic), and...

Hi, Looking for advice as I have anxiety regarding a new upvc front door I've had installed. The planning and waiting for this door has been months and now I'm really not feeling good as feel it has been hung too high?! To open the door doesn't feel natural ie handle seems too high. There is 3...

Hi, we've had new doors fitted and there gaps on the plastic section from the door that meets the threshold. After the door dropped and someone came round to adjust it I then noticed these gaps, today someone has been to again fix the dropped door and sort these gaps, see the attached picture...

Hello, Thank you for having me here, this is my first post. My front door handle is very loose, it just droops. It also is often hard to open as you have to place alot of pressure in order for it to work and then also hard to lock as you have to lift it up while also turning the thumb lock in...

Just a quick one. If I have an internal door opening of roughly 1980*770, how wide of a track would I need to get and what sized door to fit? Just wondering what the standard overlap is etc. Thanks in advance!

I have a question regarding a new porch build. It is a small porch created to the side of the property, approx 1.4 x 2m. The walls only have a 100mm cavity and unlikely to meet current Part L building regulations for walls of U value of 0.18W/m2K. The porch was designed for the the Part L rules...

Hi, I have an extension on the side of my house which has a single external door and a set of french doors. I’d like to brick up the single door, so that I can fit some units across the full wall. Would this cause any issues regarding building regs etc? TIA

I asked a related question a while ago but for various reasons I haven't actually started to fit the architrave and skirting board yet. I'm finally ready to do it but I'm having some doubts about what to do. The plaster on the left side of the door is proud of the frame by about 10mm. This is...