Glass in French Doors

kazzagrezza

Please can somebody help
We have recently had new internal french doors fitted between our kitchen and living area but you cant see through the glass as it has some sort of film on it which you cannot remove and it makes the living area a little dark so I want to change it. However, there is no beading around the glass which would make the glass a lot easier to replace (cheap doors but carpenter expensive to fit). Please can you tell me if this would be possible and how to go about it?
Many thanks

robowen

Is it possible to get a close up photo of both sides of the glass and surround.??
The glass should come out easily, but without seeing the doors I cant see why its not possible

rob

Rex_Mundi

As robowen says, without a picture it is difficult to give concise advice.

However.............. These doors sound very much like a few cheaper doors I've come accross. They are designed to look like french doors, but the glass is one single big panel. The doors don't have beading and seperate panels as such. One side, the doors are machined to look like they have beading and seperate panels of glass like french doors (but is one piece of wood). The other side, a single piece of wood is machined to give the same look, however, it does come out to allow for glazing (the whole centre piece with the 'beading' comes out in one).

These doors are a complete nightmare!!! To get the centre of the wooden 'beading' to stay in place, normally a double sided tape, or silicon is used to stick it to the glass. Reglazing them is a horrible job!!! I always charged a LOT more to glaze when I came accross these doors because of the extra work they can cause. If I had them, I would do everything I could to avoid reglazing them. Getting the 'beading' side off can cause damage to it, and you would risk the doors not looking so good afterwards.

But without seeing the doors, I couldn't be certain that this is the same type (though it sounds very much like them).

kazzagrezza

Many thanks for your advice and yes you are right... they are the doors you mentioned and they are siliconed in place so I either find somebody to do the job for me and pay a premium for the reglazing, buy new doors again or leave them as they are.......... what a dilemma.