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Sod it I'm not messing around, ordered the larger ones and will just send these back

Replacement hinges have arrived and...looks to be 0.5mm thickness difference and screws are ever so slightly different length (and I assume thickness) Is there anything that can be done to salvage this other than send back and reorder? Company I'm ordering from (ironmongery direct doesn't seem...

Ah ... Excellent. Think I better start looking for new doors😂

Excuse my ignorance...what will that do?

I must confess we were perplexed why all the doors opened the "wrong" way until we realised that it was literally for those reasons, servants can knock and open the door without seeing anyone in the room they shouldn't

Sadly too late, its with the door stripping company as we speak. I'm treating it as a relatively "cheap" experiment given it was £50 to strip or £200+ for new ie if I need to write off a few hundred quid on a failed plan, it's doable

Thankfully despite the house being literally filled with horrors...the inside of the cabinets are in perfect condition. Massively misjudged how long it takes to mask up. Disassembly is super quick but getting the tape lines perfect is...boring in the extreme! A picture of the side profile to...

Have a 10yr old kitchen put together extremely well, great joinery but not to our taste with regards to colours (cream cabinets, black granite worktops, pewter hardware). After sanding, filling, sanding etc the walls and ceilings, I'm not disassembling the cabinetry ready for spraying. So far...

Lol I typed another word for rubbish and it auto corrected it...fingers crossed these don't go the same way

Crap🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Oh wasn't aware that was a thing. Should I be mounting them as soon as they return or leave for a period to acclimatize to house again?

I may have a perfect Edwardian alternative.... Got loads of lats from when the ceilings were removed. Potentially a bit thick but could always slightly open up the old hinge recess to accommodate

Find some narrow 20mm wide moulding in the shed so did a demo knock up and think it's a good profile to minimise dust build up. Not very ornate but seems a good balance

Very good tip and yes previous hinges were the thick iron ones so will need to adjust appropriately

I've gone down the road before of "preservation" and I ended up with Victorian hardware I never liked the look of, did operate as fluidly as I would like, but just had them because of the notion it was the right thing to do. This time around, I've taken the house back to brick and building...

Good advice and sounds better than a whole heap of wood filler. Sounds like shaving a mm off the mortice plug could be prudent too and just allowing wood glue to fill gaps. Re finish, nothing set in stone at this stage. They are currently varnished hallway facing and white on room internal...

I wish I could, doors are now in the workshop for next 6-8 weeks. Essentially within the frame was a very large "cassette" for the door opening mechanism, I would ballpark it at 10cm high, 15cm long and maybe 1-2cm wide. Within this cassette it also housed the lock mechanism. But as this is...

So I've just removed all the old hardware from 6 internal doors as the Edwardian doors are being sent off to be stripped/filled/sanded. When it comes to new hardware, should I be filling all the holes made by the previous stuff and cutting out fresh or what's the process there? For hinges it...

Lovely. Will be attacking this project towards the end of next week and will stick some pictures on here

That is indeed a nice looking posh room Doug! I think drawing it out on the wall first makes a lot of sense, easier to fix a mistake in HB. With regards to assembling them like frames first, was it a simple glue up or something else?