Door recommendation please

[cotswoldcs]

We renovated an old stable building some years ago but it's still being used for farm storage. One day it might get converted but for now I need to replace the door with something that's in keeping with it's character but also practical and not too expensive (under £1k for sure). It's obviously not a standard size and opening is over 1.1m wide. The existing door is a home-made painted softwood door and it's now as rotten as anything. I don't particularly want to have another the same but don't know what to replace it with. Anyone made one or had one made? Needs to be secure and strong.

Any recommendations please? Old photo attached for reference.


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[solo]

Not sure what your budget is, but i have used this company to make oversize doors for the farm house. I can highly recommend them. Everyone who visits makes positive comments about the doors.

Browns Carpentry, Joinery and Oak Timber - Quality Oak Doors and Timber

Browns of Herefordshire are manufacturers and suppliers of Oak Doors, Oak Timber, Oak Flooring, Oak Windows and Oak Staircases.

www.brownscarpentry.com

 

[chaffcutter]

Have a look around the reclamation yards. One near us has hundreds in stock and many are odd sizes or oversize that might be easily made to fit. They had a lot of doors ex banks etc, really heavy and hardwood. If you found a good one like that it would look the part when you change it to a house.
Cheaper too!

 

[How much]

It would be much cheaper to frame it out properly with chased in water bars etc in and use hardwood framing and then put a standard size composite door in that would be suitable for "home use " later with multi point locking etc you might just about get that done for £1K a bespoke hardwood door and frame will probably cost maybe 1/4 to 1/2 as much again the wider door would look nice but framed correctly and with maybe a narrow glass panel at the side it composite would look good also and they are are easy to maintain and don't weather or warp.

 

[suffolksmallholder]

Look for local joinery shops and at least three quotes. Give them the curved arch filler piece to use as a template. Door and frame. Ledged, braced and framed door in Iroko. Modern locking system. Painted using two pack epoxy system. Please set your sights a little higher on budget as £1000 would cover the cost for a basic 2'9" standard door and you get what you pay for. If you want carp then good luck, if you want quality then you have to pay for it ant it will pay you back times four. I'd expect fifty years or more from quality and fifteen or less from carp. Been there, got the 'T' shirt.
Please don't spoil the look by altering with glass panels or packing!
Ah, I've just seen you're in the 'wolds. I still have some tall staddle stones from my grandfathers house when he lived near Shipston-on-Stour. That's a very fine little building and worth some aesthetic love.

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[B R C]

He doesn’t want to put something good in as it’s still in farm use and will get bashed no doubt. Until a proper front door is required I would possibly go very thick ply maybe 1 inch+, put some ledges and braces on back and you have strong and secure. You could route the joins on the front to look like planks.
Lovely building btw.

 

[milkloss]

If you’re still using it as a farm store I really wouldn’t be spending big bucks on a door. I would look at the reclamation yards myself and cutting something down or padding out to fit.

definitely try and keep the original size and look if possible.

 

[suffolksmallholder]

Just repair the existing then, splice in a piece of frame for the bottom hinge, a piece of BS1088 ply over the door up to the level of the bottom hinge, slosh some green on and then finis! No time wasted with routering or anything else for that matter. A proper good old bodge-up-farmers-job.
https://www.repair-care.co.uk/ This works very well but by preference in dry weather.

Interesting though I quite like a bash or three on a 'converted' farm building as this gives a little bit of authenticity as to its past life. The quality was nearly always there, quietly in the background & out of sight, that is why little buildings like this are such fun to renovate. I strive to get longevity built in to anything I create.

I can now say with authority that I can go back to Oxford and view the work I did now 40 years ago and it's ALL still good! I can find one brick in a set of steps that has failed and I'd like to sneak back and replace it one day......

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[suffolksmallholder]

Bodges and jobs to be happy with. Can you tell them apart?

First two pics, copious use of foamy glue and plywood a decade ago. Pics taken today. This building is being demolished in the spring, I'm saving the bricks and rebuilding it so I don't bang my head on the gutter-bracket just over the door!

Second two pics, doors repaired using part Repair-care system and part West system epoxy, a piece of home grown larch cill and fresh paint. I even found a genuine Victorian covered escutcheon for the lock in pic 4 to finish it off properly.

A day and a half on each door, all ironwork saved, repaired and cleaned, all paint stripped using an infra red stripper and the timber overhauled with either pieced being let in or with repair-care filler. West system epoxy as base coat painted on then overcoated with primer then top colour.

There you go @cotswoldcs you CAN overhaul (or replace if you want at a later date) the existing door nicely given the correct time and materials, it's just how you approach it!
SS

 

[suffolksmallholder]

A modern slant in a similar sized opening. OK it's in brickwork but I'm not a stonemason except when doing flintwork

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