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Am no expert but if the door is nice and heavy i’d be tempted to keep it. Doors are expensive and those look like the traditional style at least.
I’d look for soft spots yourself by giving it a poke all over with something sharp.
£90 to get two ready to paint doesn’t sound too bad? -
Fitting a new door would be a bastard job so just get these sorted. Can always paint them if the wood is a bit shrug.
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Given the paint looks pretty thin and you've already started sanding, why not just finish the job yourself? Only 2 doors, days are getting short and such.
London prices are wild. We paid £20 a door, including pickup and delivery (and meeting a very loud dog). The doors we had were 5-6 coats of paint deep + a coating that turned into real sticky gross goop when even a little heat was applied. Would have taken years.
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I'd keep them.
We just had four doors replaced (they were horrible, yours look nice) and I showed the builder the knotty pine ones I wanted to replace them with. I got home and they'd fitted four doors with those cheap MDF fronts designed to look like wood grain, which my wife had signed off on while I was at work.
If you've got decent, solid wood doors, keep them - even buying a disappointing replica is quite expensive.
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Question for the hive mind, we were quoted £90 to get two door dipped to remove the paints, sanding it down reveal the wood to look ok, but can’t really tell if it’s original(ish) wood or just a cheap door that I could spend £35-90 replacing with a new one instead.
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