External/internal door??

apmac

Hi everyone! Can anyone help -we are knocking down some walls to open up our existing utility room, kitchen and dining room and make a large living dining kitchen. Currently there is an old glazed wooden door in the utility leading to a tiny enclosed back porch which in turn has doors leading to the garage and the garden. The door from the porch to the garage is a lightweight ply type door and the door to the outside is uPVC. The porch is obviously very cold due to draught from garage and is uninsulated.

The problem is that we can't decide what kind of door to replace the door from the utility to the porch. It will be right in the middle of our dining kitchen and will need to open in the way due to the small porch. I feel like a PVC (external type) door would be overkill and wouldn't look right. I had hoped to reuse one of the internal doors we will have left over as they look nice and will fit with the decor but now I'm concerned that the room will be really cold and draughty.

Also, we will have a building inspector coming from building control to see a beam and french doors we are installing and I have a slight concern that they might take issue with it, even though it's not part of our building regs application...?

Sorry for long post, thanks for reading. Would really appreciate any bright ideas/advice for what kind of door we could use! (cost is also a factor!)

phill99

If its not part of your building regs application, they can't look at it. Have whatever door you want. You can always put decent draught proofing round a timber door.

apmac

Will we lose much heat if the door itself isn't insulated? The door is decent enough but it's not solid or anything. Thanks for reply!

phill99

apmac wrote: »

Will we lose much heat if the door itself isn't insulated? The door is decent enough but it's not solid or anything. Thanks for reply!

Not really. Given the overall external surfaces in a room, one door is minimal.