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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 |
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: 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? I'd definitely glue a strip to the bottom of the door; it would be much less noticeable being at ground level (a previous owner did it it to our living room door and it really doesn't bother me (and I'm dead fussy, me). 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? I have a bathroom door like this in a property I rent out. When I bought the place, there was no form of handle/catch in place - I think the idea was you just had to sing very loudly while on the bog - but I wanted to put this right before letting the place, so had the same issue as you. I ended up putting a pull-knob on the outside, on the panel furthest away from the main hinge but positioned fairly near the overall centre of the door (the door folds *inwards* so the pull knob doesn't impinge). On the inside of the door I fitted a flush-fitting ring pull like this: http://www.willowandstone.co.uk/cms-...ass-flush-fit- ring-pull-_1.jpg - again, on the outer panel close to the mid-line hinge (ISTR the two handles were almost back-to-back). My first attempt involved a non-recessed handle, which was rubbish, as it prevented the two door panels from folding properly. The slight 'gotcha' is the door is a hollow, thin-walled MDF construction, and there's bugger all to attach the recessed handle to (and it needs firmly anchoring to resist pulling forces). Think I solved that one with copious quantities of car body filler! As for a catch, I just ended up using a brass hook-and-eye inside the bathroom (so the door can't actually be latched shut from the outside). That's probably inappropriate for a kitchen though. HTH -- David |
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: 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? I'd definitely glue a strip to the bottom of the door; it would be much less noticeable being at ground level (a previous owner did it it to our living room door and it really doesn't bother me (and I'm dead fussy, me). 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? I have a bathroom door like this in a property I rent out. When I bought the place, there was no form of handle/catch in place - I think the idea was you just had to sing very loudly while on the bog - but I wanted to put this right before letting the place, so had the same issue as you. I ended up putting a pull-knob on the outside, on the panel furthest away from the main hinge but positioned fairly near the overall centre of the door (the door folds *inwards* so the pull knob doesn't impinge). On the inside of the door I fitted a flush-fitting ring pull like this: http://www.willowandstone.co.uk/cms-...ass-flush-fit- ring-pull-_1.jpg - again, on the outer panel close to the mid-line hinge (ISTR the two handles were almost back-to-back). My first attempt involved a non-recessed handle, which was rubbish, as it prevented the two door panels from folding properly. The slight 'gotcha' is the door is a hollow, thin-walled MDF construction, and there's bugger all to attach the recessed handle to (and it needs firmly anchoring to resist pulling forces). Think I solved that one with copious quantities of car body filler! As for a catch, I just ended up using a brass hook-and-eye inside the bathroom (so the door can't actually be latched shut from the outside). That's probably inappropriate for a kitchen though. HTH -- David |
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wrote in message ... 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 |
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On Saturday, December 7, 2013 8:19:53 PM UTC, Jim Hawkins wrote:
wrote in message ... 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 |
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