"Tim S" wrote in message
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Steve Firth coughed up some electrons that declared:

Tim S wrote:

We need to replace some doors (changing 2 to sliding and the 3rd door is
a bit knackered) and the choice is for unpainted wood.

If you're converting to sliding have a look for "Scrigno" (pronounced
"screen-ee-oh") door frames. They're much higher quality that the
rubbish previously sold in the UK. We have several doors of this type
and I was surprised when I saw the stuff installed by a British builder
which was wobbly and incredibly ugly by comparison.

I thought that Scrigno (and the competitor Eclisse) weren't available in
the UK but a web search shows that they are both sold here. The big
advantage (IMO) is that they are designed to take a standard door and
turn it into a sliding door. Also there's no floor track to worry about,
but despite that the door doesn't wobble on the track.

Ah - pocket doors if I'm seeing everthing I should on their site. They do
look nice.

I did consider that, but I'm currently considering just a simple surface
sliding arrangement with flat rectangular architrave on one side of the
frame where the door slides and brush strip + overlap for blocking light.

Not as fancy and I'll need a pelmet to hide the top track, but it's easy
and
could be converted back to a regular door by the next inhabitant[1]. And
the swinging and sliding doors will be the same design.

[1] Sliding doors are emotive. I'm doing it to save space (I hate getting
a
door in the back when I'm at the fridge) but some people can't stand them.

Cheers

Tim

The Eclisse do the motorised door I mentioned to you.

At £1200 and not even a Star Trek sound when they open and close then
probably not.

Adam