New interior door & Casings

Arsenal2019

Hello,

I am after having new interior doors fitted. I live in a property which was built in the early 2000’s. They come with why I would say are the standard interior white, boring doors.

I would like to swap these and get the light brown oak internal doors to modernise the house.

There’s nothing wrong with the ones I have currently, I just want a new and modern look throughout.

I have spoke to a joiner and they’ve mentioned something about the ‘casings’ and if they’ll need to be replaced or not. They’ve said that if it was to be the case, the price would significantly increase

I have uploaded a picture of a door in my house- the others are identical. I’ve also uploaded a picture of the type of door I want

Will a new casings only be required if the old one is in a bad state, or will it likely be required to due getting a new door.

MyRealNameToo

The casing is the trim in the wall around the door. So you can see in yours they have multiple steps which may in part be aging the look of the doors whereas the ones in the product shot is much simpler and much more closely mirrors the door.

Asthetics are going to be your main driver. Most doors are made in a wide enough range of sizes that they can be but down to fit most frames. I'd hope that if your doors were particularly thin or thick that the joiner would have mentioned, if that were the case you may be more limited in your options of doors.

You probably also want to compare the casing to your skirting board as they tend to be fairly similar too for a continuous look and may look odd if you have elaborate skirting come up to a very plain door frame.

Arsenal2019

thank you! I’ll have to get them round to assess my doors as they are now. I can’t say whether or not they’re thick / thin but IMO they look pretty standard sized

EssexExile

Your architraves are a bit fussy but they can be changed fairly easily without changing the whole casing. As you say, get them round to assess the job.

john.h

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81943430#Comment_81943430

The casings are not the trims around the door, that is the architrave. The casing is the frame the door is fitted too.