Hello! Thank you so much for this thorough video 🤩 I’m a Canadian staying in Scotland with my Scottish hubby. The swings in the bedroom doors of our house have been driving me crazy! I’ve been moaning about it for ages, and never changed it because of the light switch location. Although every bit of your video was superb, the Quinetic switch shoutout really was the game changer for us! This also helps our friend who has light switch issues, wanting to add a third switch by the guest room for the hallway. My husband couldn’t stop talking about the Quinetic switch last night when I showed him the few seconds of that bit of the video (I’m the carpenter in the house; he’s the engineer). Thanks again! 😊
I was thinking that as I watched it. It reminded me of my father. I once started filling an old hinge rebate and he told me not to be so bloody lazy! 😂 He proceeded to cut a piece of wood slightly thicker than the rebate, carefully glued it in and then when dry he planed it down to match. A seamless repair, but since the door was being painted anyway it struck me as an over engineered solution. Still, that was my dad 🙂
Not really. Firstly, this is 2-part epoxy filler, and it won't budge. Secondly, no measuring required. Just fill, shape and and a quick sand. But you do you.
Oh the doors look lovely! So clean and bright. Love the new knobs/ latches. That storage room upstairs needs shelves and some hang up rods!! Lol! I'm sure that is on your list! Thank you for sharing your journey with this house.
Dude! Those doors and the upstairs look fantastic! I have a 1913 house here in the U.S. and you give me a ton of hope! Especially watching you go from the damaged plaster wallls to this. Well done!
Great job as usual. Wait until those two cats start bringing in wild life🐭 That will definitely keep you & Mrs Mack on your toes. We have 3 cats one of which is a ginger tom. Adorable but he's a hunter so we get all sort of presents left for us. Pretty sure he was responsible for bringing in & releasing a live mouse in our kitchen which landed up making a nest for itself inside our dishwasher. It chewed through a load of wires in the dishwasher & tripped the MCB & earth leakage breaker on our consumer unit before I finally found the problem. Keep the vids coming.
These doors bring a lot of character to the house. People did not only board up doors to make them look more modern (I have a couple in my house) but cupboard doors as well. I have a small cupboard which had a 50s styling, but when starting to refurbish the doors I discovered that nice panelled doors were hidden under the plywood and the cupboard is maybe early 20th century or even older.
Great job Andy and thank you for having me around and sharing your journey. You have every right to be pleased with your work. You have more patience than all my local doctors 🌞
Love that hardware Andy, and how wonderful you were able to resurrect the original doors, which you and Mrs. Mac have restored to perfection. Hello to double trouble Chicken and Nugget 👋🏼
Aha, I see you did exactly the same with the quinetic switches as I did - left the one behind the door when I rehung it and put a new one on the other side. It felt like a bit of a bodge, but I'm glad I'm not the only one.
I dislike intensely those sloppy painters who slap paint all over the hardware on door hinges and handles. Well done to you for the stripping of the doors and to Mrs Mac for the painting finesse.
I've just done this job myself, I got away with carrying on the hinge mortice all the way through to the other face, filling the old open edge and flipping the door around in the frame. One thing I would say is rather than using buckets of filler you can glue a thin wooden strip in there and make the difference up with a little filler, much quicker and cheaper.
Glad you re-used those hinges. Ours were all cast iron. No wear due to all that lovely carbon acting as a lubricant. We used some of our rim latches back to front. We were able to reverse the snibs.
My childhood home (built 1935 in San Francisco) Had Solid Mahogany panel doors which had Faux woodgrain painted on them. WTF? We, Dad and I, repainted them and the home looked much better. Just like your home, a major improvement.
Yep, I knew they'd come up smashing. Look great. They are definitely better with the panelling removed. The handles do look nice too. Very good job as usual guys. The cats are just lovely too.
The doors look fabulous. We've hung the lounge door the other way, and we're going to chase the lights hence me ripping up my bedroom carpet tomorrow. My son's room needs the same. We made the bathroom door open into the bathroom instead of nearly knocking everyone down the stairs when opening it. Getting fed up with painting doors, but this has given me a boost seeing how great yours came out.
I think it's great that you made the choice to refurb existing doors rather than buy new. The doors look amazing. No doubt it's all down to a bit of elbow grease and to your usual high standards. Your taste in terms of finishing and colours is also to be admired!
My first property had doors like this under the panels that were added later. We had a local company that stripped doors by putting them in vats of chemicals. Saved us a ton of time and work, and they came back beautifully done.
The doors look amazing! You have done a really great job on everything. I’ve never seen door locks like those, and not really sure why most people would want or need to use them, except as in your case, or anyone replacing similar locks for new. Look forward to your big reveal video!
Thanks for the video Andy, the doors look absolutely stunning! Been subbed for years, and your craftsmanship and attention to detail never cease to amaze me. Keep up the great work sir! Chicken and Nugget looked like they're thriving with you guys.
Andy, you absolute star. I've got two doors that are hung the wrong way for the use of the room (they open into the space, not to the wall), and didn't have the presence of mind to flip them around when renovating the property (there's a whole saga there, like the Iliad). I was going to do the re-hanging myself, and had a general idea of what to do, but was going to need a sparky to move the light switch from one wall to another. Those Quinetic (also under another brand, though not as nice with the integrated receiver) switches look like they'll be the perfect solution to not knocking holes in walls, drilling through studs, and doing drywall repair! This old house of mine (1890's barn/workshop conversion) doesn't know what square or plumb is, so it's not like I can just go buy new doors and fit them without a lot of swearing.
Those doors look great. I done a similar job on all the internal doors of a house recently and it really is time/paint/filler consuming. Most of the doors I done needed 5 or 6 coats of paint. Acrylic primer and white satin top coat, it hides any blemishes its great to see the original doors in a property rather than the cheap stuff from B&Q / Wickes.
I had issues with my Quinetic light switches. I found that whenever i used them whilst my car was charging they would start to go haywire - the lights they controlled would start to pulse on and off and the only way you could reset them was to flip the breaker for the lighting circuit.
I remember I was very excited to get rid of the 60s/70s cover in my house' staircase, covering up from the rake rail down to the end stringer, hoping to discover a Victorian treasure underneath. Did not happen unfortunately, cover was there to hide misery. I must admit the fake wood effect on these doors looked pretty decent but getting back the original is absolutely the way to go. Great work ! 👌 (and I can't imagine how tidious of a job that is)
I do handyman work and 2-3 times a yr a door job. Never seen door hinges mounted and mortised in this fashion. Got to try that next time. Thanks! p.s. Wouldn't mind more Mrs. Mac doing some work and/or narration. It's been a lot of Andy and some variety might be nice.
Most definitely magnetic catches for the upstairs cupboard door, but I would go for 2 on the inside of the door & the metallic part that the magnet attaches to inserted into the door stop on the frame.
Why does a bit of DIY bring out the obsessive in people! Put the old hinges back and paint over them.... it doesn't matter!! I can't remember the last time I opened a door and studied the hinges......
Probably easier to keep the existing hinges but I'd have removed the paint and tried polishing them up. If they wouldn't polish I'd have done them in black. Just a final detail.
@@andymccabe6712 😂😂😂😂😂 Very true and of course they will, inevitably, get paint on them. But I still do it when I can remember. But if the hinges are in good shape I reuse them
On our under stairs toilet I managed to turn the latch on a rim latch to be used on the inside of the door opening out. It's something that's probably depends on the latch your using though.
Defo worth the effort Andy (easy for me to say), they look grand, and the hardware looks great too ! Transforms the space, so much more light and airy ! The only thing I can think of for the cupboard would be a Suffolk thumb latch, you can get nice brass ones, which don't look as rustic as the black steel ones ! Or of course you could fit one of those nice sprung roller catches, now where have I seen them before ? 🤔😉😆
I think you may be wrong about when the scumbling was done, Andy. The Victorians loved scumbling and marbelling. They originated the adage ‘If you can’t make it, fake it’ It was losing favour by the 1940’s and by the 1950’s it had completely died out. Panelling the door was very much a 50’s and 60’s thing - my dad had a whole bunch of home improvement magazines from that period which all extolled the virtue of ‘modernising’ your panel doors and spindled staircase.
Thank you for the kitten update, they are coming on leaps & bounds in size and interactivity with you. I agree with someone else in the comments that a magnetic latch is probably the best option for the upstairs door, if you find it's a bit heavy & still comes open with 1 put another on (I've had to on my understair cupboard)
I love that you've been able to retain the original doors. Imagine the stories they could tell if doors could speak. I especially like the lounge door as it now has some interesting new history to it having been re-hung to open the other way round. In a hundred or so years time a new family in the house might be very intrigued when they discover that the door many years ago used to open a different way.
What an improvement! Suggestion: The top panel in each of those hallway doors could be replaced with textured glass so natural light can come into the rooms through the hall window.
Hello! First time viewer. Thanks for showing how to do this! I was trying to see how you got the door in the right place when you screwed the hinges to the frame, but I didn't quite understand how you did it.
I would go for magnets on the upstairs cupboard. That was you can have a matching knob on the outside and make it looks the same however else you need to.
For the storage door, I would be tempted to use the spring ball and striker and a fixed handle, will make it look similar and you can pull open and the ball will keep it shut.
Very nice!🖖You are lucky whoever repurposed the doors took the time to do the handle backing properly so the doors could one day be returned to original.
Doors are looking great, as is the rest of the property. Helpful to have a wife that likes painting I bet. In my house the upstairs doors are all the 'wrong' way round in my mind. I've been considering switching them but light switches is the main thing stopping me. Will have to try these remote light switches.
Historically there is a reason why bedroom doors were hung the 'wrong' way round. It was so that when opening the door the occupants - or their personals - weren't exposed to view from the landing. Nowadays we aren't quite so timid and find that doors that open that way are inconvenient.
@@andymccabe6712 I did hear about that with the lights but didn't know if it was a myth or not. Didn't know about the doors but I'm looking forward to swapping them round if the light switches workm
Regarding changing the direction the door opens: The way you did it kept the same face of the door in toward the room. It looks like the doors have the same appearance on both sides. Did you consider reversing the direction of the hinges on the same edge where they were originally? That would have put the original inside face of the door onto the outside. Using this method reduces the amount of fill material since some of the cut-out for the hinge already exists. Also, if the handle sets matched the holes, it might have eliminated the need to fill in those holes as well. Unfortunate that the originals were not available. Finally, you might consider putting a wooden circle onto the wall inside the room where the door handle will hit the wall. Either modern "drywall" or traditional plaster and lathe do not hold up well against impacts from handles. I enjoyed your videos on the door project. Thanks for sharing.
Great stuff! Thanks a lot for this. I only have only one tiny quibble and that is with the paint colour. I try as far as possible to avoid Brilliant White on period properties - it somehow looks un-natural - and go for either just white or something like Chalk White. DiY stores tend to have only Brilliant but a trade outlet will probably have the alternatives.
I too prefer a small fillet for the hinges, I find with a bit of care I can even fairly match the grain. I have one to do this winter and ours aren’t painted, so need to look good. Do you now have ginger cats with white streaks?
Nugget & Chicken will still be kittens till 2, then you have their teens best o luck with a nice house mate, all your loverly craft work will get ripped to shreads. I have 10, 6 are now pensioners, 3 teens & a random rescue who may be ferral. The house looks like a war zone, but that's the price of pure unconditional love. I hope your love of your 2happy meal Duo" will reflect that regardless what they destroy. Oh P.S Nice Doors 🙂
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Hello! Thank you so much for this thorough video 🤩
I’m a Canadian staying in Scotland with my Scottish hubby. The swings in the bedroom doors of our house have been driving me crazy! I’ve been moaning about it for ages, and never changed it because of the light switch location. Although every bit of your video was superb, the Quinetic switch shoutout really was the game changer for us! This also helps our friend who has light switch issues, wanting to add a third switch by the guest room for the hallway.
My husband couldn’t stop talking about the Quinetic switch last night when I showed him the few seconds of that bit of the video (I’m the carpenter in the house; he’s the engineer).
Thanks again! 😊
They've gotten huge! so glad you took his brother too! job well done!
Wow the doors look lush and you’re right doors with character look so much better than brand new ones!!
Fillet of wood glued into the hinge rebates and then filled I feel would be a better repair.
Agreed but you won't see it and they shouldn't crack or anything.
Agree
I was thinking that as I watched it. It reminded me of my father. I once started filling an old hinge rebate and he told me not to be so bloody lazy! 😂 He proceeded to cut a piece of wood slightly thicker than the rebate, carefully glued it in and then when dry he planed it down to match. A seamless repair, but since the door was being painted anyway it struck me as an over engineered solution. Still, that was my dad 🙂
Correct, it would be quicker too, but both methods are perfectly fine and acceptable
Not really. Firstly, this is 2-part epoxy filler, and it won't budge. Secondly, no measuring required. Just fill, shape and and a quick sand. But you do you.
I'm no DIY man but you're chanel is the best by a country mile
Yeah, my mantra for DIY is "Don't Involve Yourself"!
Thank you Jon!
What a journey. Thanks for inviting us in.
No worries David!
I always get my door furniture from an online company Door Furniture Direct, good price and amazingly very helpful advice if needed on the phone.
That hall way looks amazing. I love that those door have had a life than a face lift then a new face lift with your work. Awesome work
They look stunning...time, patience and love...answer to everything. Well done Mrs Mac' and Andy.👏🥳
Cheers Moira! 👍
Just want to say I love love love your Channel!! I lived for 15 years in the north east, jesmond, sandyford. I miss miss Whitley Bay!!!😢😢😢
Oh the doors look lovely! So clean and bright. Love the new knobs/ latches. That storage room upstairs needs shelves and some hang up rods!! Lol! I'm sure that is on your list! Thank you for sharing your journey with this house.
Cheers! Yup, defo on the list - slatted shelves. 😁👍
Dude! Those doors and the upstairs look fantastic! I have a 1913 house here in the U.S. and you give me a ton of hope! Especially watching you go from the damaged plaster wallls to this. Well done!
Great job as usual. Wait until those two cats start bringing in wild life🐭 That will definitely keep you & Mrs Mack on your toes. We have 3 cats one of which is a ginger tom. Adorable but he's a hunter so we get all sort of presents left for us. Pretty sure he was responsible for bringing in & releasing a live mouse in our kitchen which landed up making a nest for itself inside our dishwasher. It chewed through a load of wires in the dishwasher & tripped the MCB & earth leakage breaker on our consumer unit before I finally found the problem. Keep the vids coming.
These doors bring a lot of character to the house.
People did not only board up doors to make them look more modern (I have a couple in my house) but cupboard doors as well.
I have a small cupboard which had a 50s styling, but when starting to refurbish the doors I discovered that nice panelled doors were hidden under the plywood and the cupboard is maybe early 20th century or even older.
Doors look fantastic you and the Mrs did a great job.
Looking very good. You should be proud of yourselves. Really nice colour scheme too!
Great job Andy and thank you for having me around and sharing your journey. You have every right to be pleased with your work. You have more patience than all my local doctors 🌞
Cheers Ray! 😎
For the upstairs cupboard door I would probably go for magnets. One in the edge of the door and one in the frame.
Possibly!
Love that hardware Andy, and how wonderful you were able to resurrect the original doors, which you and Mrs. Mac have restored to perfection. Hello to double trouble Chicken and Nugget 👋🏼
Cheers Mandy and yes, they're trouble!
Aha, I see you did exactly the same with the quinetic switches as I did - left the one behind the door when I rehung it and put a new one on the other side. It felt like a bit of a bodge, but I'm glad I'm not the only one.
Nice job on the doors Andy. Love the old style locks and handles. They look a treat. 👍
Love that you're using your old 🚪
Outdone all expectations again. They look absolutely amazing. Great work!
Cheers - really pleased with how they came out!
Wow! The doors have come out great, well done! Surprised how well they came out!
They came out so much better than I was expecting, fair play! Good job
I'd do a ball latch and a brass handle for that cupboard door. No need for a full cylinder latch.
Nice job on the doors, they look great 👍
I agree. To be honest I would probably do the ball latch and handle thing for all of the doors, unless you actually need a lockable door.
I dislike intensely those sloppy painters who slap paint all over the hardware on door hinges and handles. Well done to you for the stripping of the doors and to Mrs Mac for the painting finesse.
Nice work as usual. Well done to the both of you
Cheers Glyn!
Those doors and new hardware look fantastic Andy, you've done a really great job there (and Mrs Mac, of course).
Well done Mr and Mrs Mac ........Great video !!!!
I've just done this job myself, I got away with carrying on the hinge mortice all the way through to the other face, filling the old open edge and flipping the door around in the frame. One thing I would say is rather than using buckets of filler you can glue a thin wooden strip in there and make the difference up with a little filler, much quicker and cheaper.
Much as I like natural wood, the painted doors and the new hardware are period-appropriate and look great!
Smashing job Andy. Those 2 cars are gorgeous.
Glad you re-used those hinges. Ours were all cast iron. No wear due to all that lovely carbon acting as a lubricant. We used some of our rim latches back to front. We were able to reverse the snibs.
Those door knobs on the newly painted doors look bloody amazing mate, you have amazing attention to detail also 👌
My childhood home (built 1935 in San Francisco) Had Solid Mahogany panel doors which had Faux woodgrain painted on them. WTF? We, Dad and I, repainted them and the home looked much better. Just like your home, a major improvement.
I could get used to these daily videos :)
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Yep, I knew they'd come up smashing. Look great. They are definitely better with the panelling removed. The handles do look nice too. Very good job as usual guys. The cats are just lovely too.
The doors look fabulous. We've hung the lounge door the other way, and we're going to chase the lights hence me ripping up my bedroom carpet tomorrow. My son's room needs the same. We made the bathroom door open into the bathroom instead of nearly knocking everyone down the stairs when opening it. Getting fed up with painting doors, but this has given me a boost seeing how great yours came out.
Cheers Jules! Yes, painting doors is soul destroying. 😂
I really love the last words you say in your vids!
I think it's great that you made the choice to refurb existing doors rather than buy new. The doors look amazing. No doubt it's all down to a bit of elbow grease and to your usual high standards. Your taste in terms of finishing and colours is also to be admired!
My first property had doors like this under the panels that were added later. We had a local company that stripped doors by putting them in vats of chemicals. Saved us a ton of time and work, and they came back beautifully done.
Nice! There's always a risk of warping with dip & strip. 🤞
@@GosforthHandyman yeah they did warn us, but we got lucky. The doors were solid oak, so I think that helped.
house looks superb. bet you're proud of the results.
The doors look amazing! You have done a really great job on everything. I’ve never seen door locks like those, and not really sure why most people would want or need to use them, except as in your case, or anyone replacing similar locks for new. Look forward to your big reveal video!
Thanks for the video Andy, the doors look absolutely stunning! Been subbed for years, and your craftsmanship and attention to detail never cease to amaze me. Keep up the great work sir! Chicken and Nugget looked like they're thriving with you guys.
Thank you - the cats are trouble! 😂
very impressive. the latches remind me of my grandparents house, and were a really cool touch.
Really pleased with the latches!
Here in Australia houses built in the same era also had doors that swung into the room and not towards the wall which took up valuable space
Andy, you absolute star. I've got two doors that are hung the wrong way for the use of the room (they open into the space, not to the wall), and didn't have the presence of mind to flip them around when renovating the property (there's a whole saga there, like the Iliad). I was going to do the re-hanging myself, and had a general idea of what to do, but was going to need a sparky to move the light switch from one wall to another. Those Quinetic (also under another brand, though not as nice with the integrated receiver) switches look like they'll be the perfect solution to not knocking holes in walls, drilling through studs, and doing drywall repair!
This old house of mine (1890's barn/workshop conversion) doesn't know what square or plumb is, so it's not like I can just go buy new doors and fit them without a lot of swearing.
Great stuff! Main thing with the Quinetic is they don't need a neutral at the switch, some other brands do. Just something to bear in mind. 👍
@@GosforthHandyman I'll pop the faceplate off and check the use of a neutral! Thanks for the detail.
@@GosforthHandyman So, turns out my Quinetic hums when the power is flowing through it. Audible several meters away in a quiet room. Do yours do that?
Doors look good! For the upstairs cupboard, how about a ball catch? All the best
Those doors look great. I done a similar job on all the internal doors of a house recently and it really is time/paint/filler consuming. Most of the doors I done needed 5 or 6 coats of paint. Acrylic primer and white satin top coat, it hides any blemishes its great to see the original doors in a property rather than the cheap stuff from B&Q / Wickes.
Try a magnet on the upstairs cupboard door & jam.
they turned out great, love this Style
Love the kittens there beautiful xx🐕🐕🦋🦋💙💙the doors look stuning xx
I had issues with my Quinetic light switches. I found that whenever i used them whilst my car was charging they would start to go haywire - the lights they controlled would start to pulse on and off and the only way you could reset them was to flip the breaker for the lighting circuit.
Looking great Andy
some locks let you rotate the latch 180 degrees for this type of scenario, usually involves stripping apart lock
Yes yes two videos in two days ☺️
Doors look great !
I remember I was very excited to get rid of the 60s/70s cover in my house' staircase, covering up from the rake rail down to the end stringer, hoping to discover a Victorian treasure underneath. Did not happen unfortunately, cover was there to hide misery. I must admit the fake wood effect on these doors looked pretty decent but getting back the original is absolutely the way to go. Great work ! 👌 (and I can't imagine how tidious of a job that is)
I do handyman work and 2-3 times a yr a door job. Never seen door hinges mounted and mortised in this fashion. Got to try that next time. Thanks! p.s. Wouldn't mind more Mrs. Mac doing some work and/or narration. It's been a lot of Andy and some variety might be nice.
Great job on the doors Andy.
Cheers bud!
Most definitely magnetic catches for the upstairs cupboard door, but I would go for 2 on the inside of the door & the metallic part that the magnet attaches to inserted into the door stop on the frame.
Nice job. On the cupboard maybe just a knob on outside to pull door open and a sprung closer or perko to automatically close door.
Doors came up amazing. Shame our 60s bungalow wouldn't look right with that style of door hardware much more interesting than tubular latches.
Looks amazing. perfection.
Intrigued that you didn’t use nice new brass hinges. I always do and avoid getting paint on them. But the doors look fantastic
Why does a bit of DIY bring out the obsessive in people!
Put the old hinges back and paint over them.... it doesn't matter!!
I can't remember the last time I opened a door and studied the hinges......
Probably easier to keep the existing hinges but I'd have removed the paint and tried polishing them up. If they wouldn't polish I'd have done them in black. Just a final detail.
@@andymccabe6712
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Very true and of course they will, inevitably, get paint on them. But I still do it when I can remember. But if the hinges are in good shape I reuse them
On our under stairs toilet I managed to turn the latch on a rim latch to be used on the inside of the door opening out. It's something that's probably depends on the latch your using though.
The doors look very nice! Love that paneled style! Maybe I'd have gone for black doorknobs as well, maybe bakelite door handles?
Defo worth the effort Andy (easy for me to say), they look grand, and the hardware looks great too ! Transforms the space, so much more light and airy !
The only thing I can think of for the cupboard would be a Suffolk thumb latch, you can get nice brass ones, which don't look as rustic as the black steel ones ! Or of course you could fit one of those nice sprung roller catches, now where have I seen them before ? 🤔😉😆
I'd go for one of those ball bearing latches/catch, hopefully you can get one with a smaller tube size
Jobs a gud'un Andy. For the cupboard door I would put a matching handle and a rollerball or a little latch. Little kitty's are cute 😄
I think you may be wrong about when the scumbling was done, Andy. The Victorians loved scumbling and marbelling. They originated the adage ‘If you can’t make it, fake it’ It was losing favour by the 1940’s and by the 1950’s it had completely died out. Panelling the door was very much a 50’s and 60’s thing - my dad had a whole bunch of home improvement magazines from that period which all extolled the virtue of ‘modernising’ your panel doors and spindled staircase.
Thank you for the kitten update, they are coming on leaps & bounds in size and interactivity with you.
I agree with someone else in the comments that a magnetic latch is probably the best option for the upstairs door, if you find it's a bit heavy & still comes open with 1 put another on (I've had to on my understair cupboard)
I love that you've been able to retain the original doors. Imagine the stories they could tell if doors could speak. I especially like the lounge door as it now has some interesting new history to it having been re-hung to open the other way round. In a hundred or so years time a new family in the house might be very intrigued when they discover that the door many years ago used to open a different way.
You can pair multiple Quinetic switches to a master, so for the bedrooms I have one by the door and another by the bed.
Yup, they're amazing!
What an improvement! Suggestion: The top panel in each of those hallway doors could be replaced with textured glass so natural light can come into the rooms through the hall window.
No! Please don't!
Nice job Andy!
Beautiful ❤️
Hello! First time viewer. Thanks for showing how to do this! I was trying to see how you got the door in the right place when you screwed the hinges to the frame, but I didn't quite understand how you did it.
Could you use some sort of magnetic latch on the pantry door? You could then use a non-turning knob on the outside to match your other hardware.
I would go for magnets on the upstairs cupboard. That was you can have a matching knob on the outside and make it looks the same however else you need to.
For a tubular latch on a thinner door, could you possibly shim it out with some wood? Maybe even use the latch trim plate as a router template?
For the storage door, I would be tempted to use the spring ball and striker and a fixed handle, will make it look similar and you can pull open and the ball will keep it shut.
Very nice!🖖You are lucky whoever repurposed the doors took the time to do the handle backing properly so the doors could one day be returned to original.
Yup - they did a lovely job back in the day!
For the upstairs store room door I’d be inclined to use one of those sprung cupboard door catches as they’re quite narrow normally
Doors are looking great, as is the rest of the property. Helpful to have a wife that likes painting I bet. In my house the upstairs doors are all the 'wrong' way round in my mind. I've been considering switching them but light switches is the main thing stopping me. Will have to try these remote light switches.
Historically there is a reason why bedroom doors were hung the 'wrong' way round. It was so that when opening the door the occupants - or their personals - weren't exposed to view from the landing. Nowadays we aren't quite so timid and find that doors that open that way are inconvenient.
@@rondobson8654 same reason that ceiling lights were put close to the window rather than central on the ceiling!
'modesty'.....!!
@@andymccabe6712 I did hear about that with the lights but didn't know if it was a myth or not. Didn't know about the doors but I'm looking forward to swapping them round if the light switches workm
Came for the woodworking, stayed for the cats. Lovely!
Use a large cupboard magnetic catch or tubular ball catch and a surface handle to match rest of house.
A wonderful restoration
Cheers Tahir!
Awesome job well done buddy.
These look great.
Regarding changing the direction the door opens: The way you did it kept the same face of the door in toward the room. It looks like the doors have the same appearance on both sides. Did you consider reversing the direction of the hinges on the same edge where they were originally? That would have put the original inside face of the door onto the outside. Using this method reduces the amount of fill material since some of the cut-out for the hinge already exists. Also, if the handle sets matched the holes, it might have eliminated the need to fill in those holes as well. Unfortunate that the originals were not available. Finally, you might consider putting a wooden circle onto the wall inside the room where the door handle will hit the wall. Either modern "drywall" or traditional plaster and lathe do not hold up well against impacts from handles. I enjoyed your videos on the door project. Thanks for sharing.
Chicken Nugget..... Ours twins are Itsie and Bitsie.... Nice finished job Andy
Love your doors, did a lovely job xx
Great stuff! Thanks a lot for this. I only have only one tiny quibble and that is with the paint colour. I try as far as possible to avoid Brilliant White on period properties - it somehow looks un-natural - and go for either just white or something like Chalk White. DiY stores tend to have only Brilliant but a trade outlet will probably have the alternatives.
tubular latch will work just fine in what looks like a 35mm door. Just need to be precise with the drilling!
That door is 29mm - tight!
I too prefer a small fillet for the hinges, I find with a bit of care I can even fairly match the grain. I have one to do this winter and ours aren’t painted, so need to look good. Do you now have ginger cats with white streaks?
Turned out very well Andy👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😎😎😎😎😎😎
Nugget & Chicken will still be kittens till 2, then you have their teens best o luck with a nice house mate, all your loverly craft work will get ripped to shreads. I have 10, 6 are now pensioners, 3 teens & a random rescue who may be ferral. The house looks like a war zone, but that's the price of pure unconditional love. I hope your love of your 2happy meal Duo" will reflect that regardless what they destroy. Oh P.S Nice Doors 🙂
Old time DIYer work been undone.
By the new...full circle.👍