Replacing non standard sized internal doors.

neilmcl

I'm think of replacing most of my internal doors with new ones, possibly Oak Veneer, but a number of the doors in my house, particular upstairs are quite short, the current bathroom door, for example, is only 189cms. Most of the doors I can see either from the specialist door selling sites or the main retailers such as Wickes sell the standard 1981mm door and only allow at most 20mm to be taken off. Can anyone suggest where I can get doors that are smaller than standard or at least allow a greater amount to be trimmed.

Also, when is a solid door actually solid? Every retailer mentions solid doors where in fact they are a laminate construction and they're also limited to millimetres when it comes to trimming. 

TELLIT01

Architectural salvage yards can be a good source of truly solid timber doors.

EssexExile

I suspect by solid they mean not honeycomb or whatever it's called, you know, basically a cardboard lattice structure.
I've trimmed cheap honeycomb doors by more than is a allowed, you just have to rebuild the solid edges with some timber, usually the bit you cut off in the first place. With "solid" doors is it just that if you take off too much you'll see the laminations rather than solid wood? Not a problem if you are just reducing the height, who looks at the tops and bottoms of doors. The other thing about taking off too much is the aesthetics, will the rails and stiles be too narrow?

fenwick458

well solid pine is readily available and cheap, you'd have to trim 2" ish of top & bottom when fitting.
if you want solid oak, they will be very very expensive. so expensive in fact that it might work out cheaper to install new door casings throughtout the first floor!

neilmcl

fenwick458 said:

well solid pine is readily available and cheap, you'd have to trim 2" ish of top & bottom when fitting.
if you want solid oak, they will be very very expensive. so expensive in fact that it might work out cheaper to install new door casings throughtout the first floor!

Do you have links because all the so-called "solid" pine doors I've seen say you can only trim by millimetres.