circa 1900 front door

[plasticpigeon]

Hello

I have spent a long time restoring a front door for my house. I don't know why. I seem to be cursed with never shying away from a challenge, but maybe the challenges I choose are not the most logical. I have spliced in new wood all over the place. It looks pretty good now, just ready to be thrown in the skip if we ever sell up. The bottom edge is a little rough, and I am considering screwing on a hardwood waterbar to stiffen it up, and cover the old holes from an old waterbar. However I don't think waterbars are a particularly traditional feature, even though they are quite sensible. Should I add one or not?

 

[88v8]

Hmmm, I have a pic somewhere... you're right in saying that the modern profiled bar is well, modern, but water shedders have been around a good while.
Usually they are recessed into the door stop at the ends.

I was going to post a pic but Photobucket is so polluted with advertising nowadays it's become quite unusable. Might try again later.

The water shedder was a flat plank with the edge bevelled off and a drip cut into the bottom.

OK here's one on our west door



I took some more but it's such a hassle uploading them.

I spent a good while repairing the front door in our previous house. At least we got 30 years use out of it.

Ivor

 

[88v8]

Working a bit better via Chrome.

Here's one on our old front door of c1880



and here's one I put on the C18 oak plank door I used in our garage. See how the end is slanted off so it clears the frame as it opens.



but on the C19 main garage doors I couldn't be bothered and used a new profile



Ivor

 

[plasticpigeon]

Interesting, the flat ones do look a bit nicer, but the new one on your garage doesn't look bad, I think I will put one on.