On Saturday, December 7, 2013 8:19:53 PM UTC, Jim Hawkins wrote:
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The kitchen is next on the tidy up the house a bit list (ripping it all out

and putting a decent one in will have to wait until my numbers come up on

the lotto!)



It has a folding door that I quite like, but has just been attached to the

door frame and doesn't fit it at all.



1) The door is slightly (2cm) too short. Is there a way of making it taller

(e.g. gluing a strip of wood to the bottom). Or would making the door frame

slightly shorter by attaching some wood to the header work better?



2) What kind of door hardware do you fit to that kind of door? I definitely

want it to still be able to lie flat against the wall. Recessed handles for

the inside bit when folded closed? Knobs on the outside either side of the

fold? Roller catch to hold it shut?



The bit that sticks out used to contain a warm air heating unit for the

house apparently. It's used as a place to store junk and the vac now. Next

door ripped theirs out, which I might do - when the lotto numbers come up

and a new kitchen is affordable!



Here is a pic: http://i41.tinypic.com/1zwersp.jpg







Philip, your pic doesn't look at all like a folding door. It looks like

a standard wooden door that's had some 4 or 5 inches sawn off

the right-hand side.

How exactly does it fold ?



Jim Hawkins

It's in its folded position in the picture (where it spends 99% of its time) so halves are in the picture, one at the front, one hidden behind it.

There is a hinge attaching the back half to the door frame and another hinge in the middle of the door attaching the two halves together.

It's definitely designed to be like that, as it's a hollow cardboard in the middle type door and has wood around all the edges.

Philip