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I have an ex council house and the bedroom doors need replacing but the sizing is awkward any doors from diy stores wont fit can anyone make doors to fit
9 Answers from MyBuilder Restoration & Refurb Specialists
Best Answer
Try Magnet joinery or howden joinery, they generally stock alot more sizes than the high street diy stores.
Answered 10th Jan 2012
Have you checked that the door sizes are not metric? Standard metric internal doors are 2040 mm high x 426,526,626,726,826 or 926mm wide. Some ranges are also available in 2000 x 807mm size. They are also 40mm thick as opposed to 35mm for imperial sized doors. You'll probably find they are only available to order from a builders merchants.
Answered 10th Jan 2012
of course they can cost a bit more though ,plenty websites google bespoke internal doors
Answered 10th Jan 2012
A good joiner will be able to make individual doors to fit. The cost will be more than standard size doors from DIY stores.
Answered 10th Jan 2012
Hello there at plenty of people wo do doors special order to size but cost alot more. The size you are after might not be too uncommon as you think as most DIY places don't really keep a full size range in stock. Try a local magnet or howdens.
Answered 10th Jan 2012
Hi meadkidd,
Council houses usually have 2040mm high door's(6ft 8"), rather than our standard 1981mm high door's (6ft 6"...if this is what you mean?
Google those height's of door, you should get loads from B and Q, Wickes in both size's etc...your doors are possibly trimmed slighty, so could be under those heights slightly, but new doors can be trimmed down.
Kind regards
Mark
Answered 10th Jan 2012
if you buy solid fire doors you can cut theem to size quite a simple job if you know what your doing
Answered 10th Jan 2012
good local joinery company should be able to make them for you, try yellow pages,or your local paper,
why not place your job in the carpentry & joinery section on this site and see if you get any response from local tradesmen
Answered 10th Jan 2012
try asking a local joinery or post it as a job on my builder and someone should be able to make a set of doors for you no problem they will be more expensive , failing that would it be possible to make the doorway bigger and fit a new lining ?
Answered 31st Jul 2018
