Finding Victorian style doors for replacement of rotten ones?

travel_freak

Hi,

I hope someone might be able to point me in the right direction here...

I have some lovely Victorian wooden dining room doors which open on to the garden. they are beautiful, quite slim with a panel at the bottom and two panes of glass in the middle with a sort of Georgian style bar in the middle. Then there is a fixed frame window at the top (which once opened but doesn't any more).

Anyway, I took one door off its hinges recently because water was seeping under it and I had hoped I might be able to chop off the rotten wood at the bottom and repair it but there was so much rotten wood that half the bottom of the door would need to go...

I would hate to replace these with UPVC ones and this would also involve disturbing the lovely wooden architrave/frame.

Please does anyone know where I could source just replacement doors, preferably wooden, in a similar style, ideally simple to fix just with hinges that I could put up myself?

Many thanks in advance.

Kind regards

ormus

http://www.wickes.co.uk/French-Doors-Hardwood/Wiltshire-French-Door-Project/invt/187549

similar style from 300 quid. depends on the size/s.
ive seen similar on ebay for very small money, sometimes.
doubt they will fit perfect first time, new or used. you normally have to cut/plane doors to fit.

they also come up on freecycle, on the odd occasion.

superstylin

Is there a reclamation yard near you? They can often be pricey but if you want genuine victorian replacements then that's the place to go