Help with a kitchen door

[p111dom]

On one of the doors in the kitchen, the poly whatever overlay has begun to peel off due to the kettle being directly underneath it I guess. It's a MOORES kitchen, standard fit on the estate. The problem is that when I rang Moores they want an incredible £145 plus vat plus shipping for a replacement. That's for a cheap MDF door with a plastic overlay. I would change all the doors for a B&Q or Ikea set but the colour is "pear" and nothing I have seen even remotely matches the carcases. Does anyone know where they source their doors from with a view to buying one cheaper. Please don't tell me they make them in house.

Thanks

 

[jasonB]

Any chance of posting a picture of the door, may be one thats easily available, there are several pear or swiss pear ones about

Jason

 

[p111dom]

Thanks again.

 

[eggflan]

Get some impact glue on it and stick it back on ,

 

[Philly]

Dom
Wickes do a pear kitchen if its any help?
Cheers
Philly

 

[p111dom]

Get some impact glue on it and stick it back on ,

Tried that and it didn't work. This has happened before. I ended up running a row of flat topped tacks all the way along the bottom. You can only see them if you inspect the bottom of the door but it's gone a bit past that stage now.

 

[jasonB]

It looks familiar but I can't see it in my catalogues, does look a bit like the basic B&Q/wickes doors but it's not in the current range, how old is the kitchen?

Its almost impossible to restick foil/vinyl wrapped doors, they are heated as part of the process so the heat from the kettle will have distorted the film.

May also be worth asking on the Kitchen fitters forum on Screwfix's site.

Jason

 

[bird2740]

try pws website

 

[jasonB]

I've got PWS and second nature catalogues but could no see them

J

 

[markavery]

Moores do make all their doors inhouse.

 

[OLD]

Could you cut off the bad part of the door and replace with hard wood profiled to prevent further steam damage and consider doing the other doors to match.

 

[p111dom]

It's the Pear colour that's the problem. I've got all the kit to make new doors if I wanted but I've tried American Ash and couldn't get the colour even close. If the carcasses were white with coloured ends I'd love to change the kitchen colour to an oak finish but the actual carcasses themselves are the same pear colour. The only other option would be to buy several sheets of say oak coloured formica and apply to all the carcasses. Then I could change the doors to whatever colour I like. It's a bit of a pricier option than the £145 for a new door. I recon it would cost £300 but all I need is for another door to need replacing and I would be at that figure already. I'd get a whole new kitchen look but it's alot of work. What you you guys think?

 

[jasonB]

The problem with "pear" is there are several different types - swiss, steamed etc and the laminates are all different between the various makers.

Maple with a bit of colour on it is the nearest I've got.

What about a couple of metal framed glass doors either side of the extractor, if they are standard 720x300 carcases you should be able to pick something up from most makers.

If you do change colour sdon't forget the cost of cornice, plinths & pelmets

Jason

 

[p111dom]

Good point Jason. It's a quandary???? There are load of places to buy Blum this and that and doors all over the place but where do the trade buy the carcasses and general faced boards for plinths, ends and coving?

 

[Niki]

I would just glue it back with CA (super glue)

I had some cases that those "iron on" plastic edging peeled off in places that I could not use the iron and the CA "saved" me.

Happy New Year
niki

 

[p111dom]

I would Niki but the stuff's thick and ridged and won't bend back down. I tried to heat it up to make it more flexible but it started to shrink making the matter worse.

 

[Shultzy]

As others have said I would cut the plastic level with the bottom of the door and paint the edge. As you say it can't be seen unless you look underneath.

 

[jasonB]

Any of the big panel suppliers will be able to get hold of a wide range of MFC with woodgrain finishes

Have a look at Eggers site, you can order A5 size samples and they do matching laminate (formica) to go with the melamine faced boards

In Scotland their stockists are Montague L. Meyer and Tayfirth Laminates.

Jason

 

[Oryxdesign]

Have you tried Howdens?

 

[NeilO]

dom ,try these http://www.hpponline.co.uk/

Esquire range of doors looks similar and is available in swiss pear tree finish..

HTH