First-time house renovation

aliasojo

That's from the laminate/wood to the door? Bum! I expected you to say there was only a couple of mm.

andrew-b

Just checked our kitchen door is about 3-4mm between ceramic floor tiles and door - my Dad fitted it. There's a metal threshold strip though which has only about a mm in clearance. Though check if the floor is actually level along the path of the opening door..if the floor goes up you might need to have more taken off. Think the gap under the kitchen larder door is slightly bigger to allow for ventilation...think we trimmed that one too - incidentally that's a plain door.

latecomer

aliasojo wrote: »

That's from the laminate/wood to the door? Bum! I expected you to say there was only a couple of mm.

There should only be a couple of mm in my opinion. Actually a couple of the doors will be having threshold strips so that will reduce the gap slightly, unfortunately for us not the garage one as we decided to carry the laminate all the way to the top of the steps.

latecomer

Forgot to say I also replaced our front door lock last night - it had been playing up for a while and the replacement I got off ebay didn't work properly. I got ours working again but it packed in completely the other week and although I hoped to find a cheap one on ebay I decided it was better to get a replacement so the house was properly secure. £50 for a replacement case only :eek:

Still at least I know the front door is secure now.

aliasojo

latecomer wrote: »

There should only be a couple of mm in my opinion. Actually a couple of the doors will be having threshold strips so that will reduce the gap slightly, unfortunately for us not the garage one as we decided to carry the laminate all the way to the top of the steps.

Same here. I got the joiner to make the gap all round the door 2 mm (he wanted to leave 3 or 4 mm) but he insists you need to leave more clearance at the bottom to account for floors going off as the doors open and also for different floor coverings.

I'm actually considering putting in 20mm wood threshhold strips myself but I had wood thresholds years ago and it feels like a backwards step tbh.

ukmaggie45

Just a quick note to say we'll be off to the house after a cuppa, am shivering in my shoes at the thought of what it's going to be like! :eek: So spare us a thought in about half an hour!

Have counselling session after that, so may not get any photos uploaded this evening.

Going to try and inspect the sweetcorn too, if it's not ready by now I imagine it won't ever be.

andrew-b

Maybe the chippy/joiner covering themselves plus it's far easier to cut off more than you need than to cut it more precisely! We usually end up removing each door multiple times before we get a decent fit ..probably why it takes us most of the day to fit one! Is very little room left around our doors ..just enough for a few coats of paint. Bit concerned we haven't left enough around the bathroom door though it grips a sheet of paper when closed now! If they aren't painted doors then i'd want them to fit within a couple of millimetres like you have asked. Sort of why i'm reluctant to get someone in to fit our doors as i don't trust they'd spend as long getting such a precise fit.

andrew-b

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Just a quick note to say we'll be off to the house after a cuppa, am shivering in my shoes at the thought of what it's going to be like! :eek:

so long as it's standing still that's all you need know...was chatting with a new zealand friend this morning with relatives in the earthquake area of Christchurch (first i knew about it as not been following news..fortunately their houses still stand)...having seen some of the pictures on local websites im sure you've got nothing to worry about!!

aliasojo

Doors are oak (but not solid) and are *apparently* more subject to fluctuation. They are being varnished with a woodstain (no I can't get my head round that either, lol).

The gap round the top and sides is fine, it's just the bottom that's bothering me. Especially in the rooms with laminate. It's not even so much draught issues, it's more sound transference.

Might get myself some of that very fetching plastic brush strip my Mother used to put on her doors.

(Not )

andrew-b

I have a "sausage dog" draught excluder you can have. We used it on our previous front door until the dog kept attacking it!