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If you don't want any different functionality I'd definitely just fix those doors.
Can't be more time consuming than making new ones fit and so on.
Also probably cheaper.
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My folks bought us doors as an xmas present, so cost isn't a massive consideration. Obviously not going to take the piss though.
I get the sentiment and I know the picture looks like it's just the very bottom that's fucked, but it's not. You're talking about cutting out a third to half of both doors - not all at the bottom in a single section either. I agree with old wood being better quality, but a repair would replace the most vulnerable section with new wood, so Idk if that logic stands up.
Steps to repair:
- Remove doors
- Work out how to secure the left space during the work
- Strip doors
- Identify rotten sections
- Cut out rotten sections
- Hardener the smaller patches of rot
- Measure up the replacement area
- Buy replacement wood
- Patch and repair
- Treat knots
- Prime
- Paint
- Refit
- Add lock to the left door
Vs
Steps to replace:
- Treat knots
- Prime
- Paint
- Remove old door
- Fit new doors
- Add lock to the left door
- Remove doors
hugo7
Cheers. Given LG and F&B's prices Zinzer looks like the way to go.
I guess follow-up vauge question is; is there anything I should know, that might not be obvious about fitting external doors.
If it makes a difference I want to reuse the latch from the door on the right and add one of those keypad locks to the one on the left.
My dad always goes on about the external. Screws on the left door, so I'm wondering about proper hinges. However, this is down an alley with very limited sun for most of the year, so Idk if the external hinges are more forgiving or something.
The right has to open out. But I could also make the left open in or out. I don't really care.