Which doors??

[Maccapacca]

Me and the missus are at odds about some new internal doors (married lifes fun huh), which do you prefer, we have timber composite windows which are only oiled and waxed these without the white paint and the cills are quite low so the windows look tall and slender.

Oak shaker

or

Dordogne oak

I know another spec me thread but some of you have architectural flair

 

[Harvey616]

I personally like the Oak Shaker one

 

[nydryl]

The Dordogne Oak looks more like a back door than an internal door to me. Oak shaker looks better to me.

 

[Tonyator]

I personally like the Oak Shaker one

I prefer the other ones.

 

[Maccapacca]

I really like the dordogne, I don't think the house (circa 1960's) would pull off a shaker style, I think shaker is for tall ceilings / victorian places with ornate architrave where as all mine are plane bullnose

 

[bitslice]

Dordogne,
the Shakers horizontal rails will collect dust and look grubby in a week.

besides, everyone shoves that Shaker look into their house, no matter what period it was built in


not that anyone gives a monkeys about design any more,
I like to look at new "executive" homes and guess just how many periods they bastardised to make their stupid design

 

[cm1179]

the shakers imo

all my doors are from howdens, i went for these http://www.howdens.com/product-rang...d-panel-doors/4-panel-grained-2-light-glazed/

in the cellar, bathroom and bedrooms i went for the same design but not glazed and they are good although 2 have had to be clamped because they started to seperate, i'm not sure whether this was down to moisture as it was the one for the bathroom and celllar

 

[Andr3w]

Shaker.

 

[Twentyone]

Dordogne

 

[aslco]

dordogne, though in real life seeing it i get the feeling shaker might actually be better. hmmm

 

[chuck990]

1 vote for oak shaker... out of interest how much does a door cost? diddnt see prices on the sites

 

[kylew]

Dordogne Oak.

 

[Maccapacca]

out of interest how much does a door cost? diddnt see prices on the sites

The dordognes I can get for £97 each and £117 for the glazed ones

 

[alex_tank]

Dordogne Oak.

 

[setter]

Dordogne, decorated a house last week with dordogne oak doors, finished in clear satin varnish, looked very nice.

 

[Maccapacca]

Dordogne, decorated a house last week with dordogne oak doors, finished in clear satin varnish, looked very nice.

What about 2 coats of danish oil and briwax, that's whats on my windows and gives them a real depth, do you think oak will 'take' danish oil?

 

[setter]

Yep, danish oil will be fine on oak.

 

[Maccapacca]

Just remembered how long it took to do all the windows, a week

 

[setter]

Yep, windows are very time consuming, only thing i hate about painting + decorating, got a job coming up soon at a house with over seventy sliding sash windows, painted white.

 

[Maccapacca]

seventy sliding sash windows, painted white.

ooooooo daywork?

The pallets for mine clocked up 3.5t of windows 2 french doors 2 single doors 4 massive windows 2 big and 3 small 1000 x 600 ish, all triple glazed composite timber inside aluminium outside

No factory finishing so had to be lightly sanded washed in spirits then oiled x 2 then waxed, they were going to factory spray with a laquer / varnish but I think it made the sample look too plasticy and uniform, well chuffed with the result even after all that work