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Period Doors

We work on both internal and external period doors, most of what we do is in the workshop, we do occasionally do work on site. We do know a very skilled carpenter who's able to fit and adjust period doors.​

 

We also have a another site Architectural Decor selling antique & period door furniture.

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Period front door in central Bristol with 

lovely linenfold panels.

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Fair bit of work on this one, off its hinges, we sorted out the gap on the inside, sanded down the door. Filled all the holes with resin, frame filler for all the panels. 2 coats of quality undercoat/primer & 2 coats of the colour. We then  polished all the original door furniture, couple of minor repairs and replacement escutcheon. 

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Original period door sourced by the customer from a rec yard, slightly bigger than the original.

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It actually came to us with lots of layers of coloured paint. We had it dip stripped, a few repairs, sanded, undercoated. We supplied and fitted all the door furniture. Had the door fitted and finally 2 coats of customers colour choice.

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A pair of pine master/slave front doors sourced by the customer, I'm pretty sure they're early 1900s & French.

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Turned out they were quite rotten on the bottoms. We cut it all out and replaced it with hardwood & quite a few general repairs. It hadn't been overly painted so just a good sanding on both sides.

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We spent a fair bit of time refurbishing the original door furniture, including a mechanism with a very unusual sprung mechanism. We then replaced some of the items that were missing, letterbox and handles

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Finally several coats of exterior grade undercoat and the customers colour choice, we also wrapped them for export.

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Edwardian pine vestibule door.

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We actually ended up hand stripping this one, finishing with several coats of wax & refurbishing the original door furniture.

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Victorian internal pine doors.​

 

 

Forgot the before pictures, the sections around the handles were rotted out and a number of splits in the panels. All repaired, refitted the door furniture and repainted to match existing doors.

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