R D S wrote:

a day as night was drawng in and I wanted closure. The door sides are
straight but some gaps range from 2-4mm from one corner to another, I
can't decide whether to pull them and plane/sand until perfect.
How anal is it normal to be about this?

Easiest way to fix that is take the architraves off, cut some wedges (1
in 7 taper, about 1 1/2" to 2" long), and hammer them into the gap (or
potential gap) outside the frame adjacent to the plaster. It will tun in
the frame enough to even out the gaps. Once you are happy, cut off the
back of the wedges and replace the architraves.

http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php?...penny_ joints

Also, in the other 'plane', when closing one of the doors...
the door is aligned at the hinge end but at the handle end the door
connects at the bottom but there is a 5mm gap at the top, the casing
must be twisted.
I can come to a compromise on this by budging one of the hinges or if I
force closure (with a little bolt at the top) will the door eventually
conform?

Probably not. You can either: live with it, move the door stops, fiddle
the hinges (i.e. move the bottom one out a tad), or in really bad cases,
you can twist the door a little if it is a traditionally made one. You
can do this by driving small wedges into joint on the the top//bottom of
the door where the rail meets the stile. It creates a slight gap in one
face of the door though, so only of much use if they can be filled and
painted rather than varnished etc.

PS, when the other half removes the old doors before you start is this
her being helpful or devious, because as we were buying the doors she
was muttering something about my tendancy to 'lose momentum'!

I always put that down to the way they say "oh, you are not going to
start doing that now are you?" ;-)


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Cheers,

John.

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