OPJ
Established Member
Hi guys,
We were recently given this lovely set of stable doors by a friend who was having some work done on their house. My intentions, having not previously measured it myself, were to hang this set in place of our current back door. It looks like the the doors are 1/2"~40mm too wide for the current frame; I'm pretty sure 3/4"~20mm is too much to take of each side.
So, my first question would be whether you agree with this? The stiles are 4" in width, plus the width of mouldings.
If the general opinion of the forum is that I am right :wink: , then I will want to look at selling these on and making some kind of profit.
These doors don't look any more than a couple of years old. The timber looks very much like Iroko, which, as you'll know, is very durable indeed for exterior joinery and furniture. What you can't see from the photo, though, is that the doors were hung the wrong way round previously (inside face on the outside, and vice-versa), which means there is some light weathering on the inside face.
You should be able to see some splashes of paint in the bottom right-hand corner. This is, presumably, from where they've been redecorating previously, ...with the doors the wrong way around! :roll:
Rebated, yes. Which makes for very good draft-proofing.
These doors even have some very nice through-tenon joinery on show (twins for the bottom rail), which appear to have been fox-wedged - not something I've seen very often in joinery work! - as opposed to driving the wedges either side of the tenon.
I'm hoping that someone may be able to give me an idea of how much money I should be looking to get for this (these?) door(s)?
I imagine it would attract more interest if I were to clean up some of the mess and re-finish it first though... Any suggestions here?
Ripping out the old frame and having to build/buy, fit and finish a new one... That's just not for me! If the buyers did ask me to fit the door for them however, I know life is made much easier by temporarily fixing the two halves together with some scrap lengths of timber, but how would you hide the screw holes after? I've never had any luck using fillers with solid timber. :? :shock:
I can't think of any more questions right now, but if anyone can get back to me with any suggestions for any or all of the above, I'd be very grateful indeed.
Thanks for your time,
Olly.
We were recently given this lovely set of stable doors by a friend who was having some work done on their house. My intentions, having not previously measured it myself, were to hang this set in place of our current back door. It looks like the the doors are 1/2"~40mm too wide for the current frame; I'm pretty sure 3/4"~20mm is too much to take of each side.
So, my first question would be whether you agree with this? The stiles are 4" in width, plus the width of mouldings.
If the general opinion of the forum is that I am right :wink: , then I will want to look at selling these on and making some kind of profit.
These doors don't look any more than a couple of years old. The timber looks very much like Iroko, which, as you'll know, is very durable indeed for exterior joinery and furniture. What you can't see from the photo, though, is that the doors were hung the wrong way round previously (inside face on the outside, and vice-versa), which means there is some light weathering on the inside face.
You should be able to see some splashes of paint in the bottom right-hand corner. This is, presumably, from where they've been redecorating previously, ...with the doors the wrong way around! :roll:
Rebated, yes. Which makes for very good draft-proofing.
These doors even have some very nice through-tenon joinery on show (twins for the bottom rail), which appear to have been fox-wedged - not something I've seen very often in joinery work! - as opposed to driving the wedges either side of the tenon.
I'm hoping that someone may be able to give me an idea of how much money I should be looking to get for this (these?) door(s)?
I imagine it would attract more interest if I were to clean up some of the mess and re-finish it first though... Any suggestions here?
Ripping out the old frame and having to build/buy, fit and finish a new one... That's just not for me! If the buyers did ask me to fit the door for them however, I know life is made much easier by temporarily fixing the two halves together with some scrap lengths of timber, but how would you hide the screw holes after? I've never had any luck using fillers with solid timber. :? :shock:
I can't think of any more questions right now, but if anyone can get back to me with any suggestions for any or all of the above, I'd be very grateful indeed.
Thanks for your time,
Olly.