Raised and Fielded Panel Door question

[Penners]

the heated billiard table.

It's to keep the balls warm.

 

[Nemesis]

I am unsure where this is leading...

 

[Ian Bond]

Ours open t'other way, so that when open they are flat against the wall.

No sign of them ever opening any other way.

There is a tiny dressing/powder room off the main bedroom though, and oddly the mouldings face into the room, despite the bedroom door itself having no mouldings facing inward.

Yours would open the other way Nemesis, just to be awkward!

The power room sounds interesting - I wonder how many have survived? It sounds like that particular room has been treated like a cupboard, as far as the door panelling is concerned.

Here's the first door (hung posh side facing into the bathroom, possibly incorrectly!). The 12 inch wide panels are each made from a single piece of timber. Just need to prepare and re-paint all the woodwork:

Here's the other door, currently undergoing some tlc prior to being hung and redecorated:

The 12 inch wide panel on this one have a cruder fielding (not raised) and are made up from several pieces tongued together. A nice job they did too.

The jointed sections of the panels have separated, possibly due to the door by dip stripped? I think I'll have to re-glue and push the joints together, but of course ensure the panels can move within the frame a bit so they don't split as the wood swells and shrinks.

 

[Penners]

There is a tiny ...powder room

The power room sounds interesting

Is that what they call a Freudian slip?

 

[Penners]

Ian - that six-panel bathroom door is interesting. A beautiful brass lock on what looks like a good quality door, and yet on the central stile near the bottom there's what looks like a very large, black sap pocket. Not what you'd expect.

 

[Ian Bond]

Ooops - slipped up with the typing on Powder!

From The Derby Abbey Community News:
" We apologize for the error in the last edition, in which we stated that 'Mr Fred Nicolme is a Defective in the Police Force'. This was a typographical error. We meant of course that Mr Nicolme is a Detective in the Police Farce."

The rim lock is a high quality modern repro, in solid brass. I'll be using simpler iron rim locks elsewhere, which will be more in keeping.

The door itself is in good shape, and was well built. I'm particularly pleased that the panels haven't split, given their width and the fact that they we're painted and pinned fast into the frame.

You're right about the sap pocket, although the digital photo may be exaggerating it slightly. And my hot air gun probably didn't help, although there's no scorching anywhere on the wood. It must've been painted, so knots and blemishes wouldn't have mattered too much.

 

[Penners]

" We apologize for the error in the last edition, in which we stated that 'Mr Fred Nicolme is a Defective in the Police Force'. This was a typographical error. We meant of course that Mr Nicolme is a Detective in the Police Farce."

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[skier-hughes]

I'd hang them whichever way you enjoy them most.

Ours all open to the walls, not to inside the room.

Our doors are nearly always open, so the nice side would be on the landing side, the decorative side of the door can then be viewed whilst open.

Graham

 

[Penners]

I'd hang them whichever way you enjoy them most.

I agree entirely. My above comments about "the proper way" were made purely out of interest (or mind-numbing boredom - whichever seems appropriate).

 

[Ian Bond]

OK, thanks for the comments Graham, Penners.

I've got plenty of time to decide - the glue's still drying on all of the repairs that I've made to all the various hinge and lock holes.

It'll be nice to actually have a door, whichever way round it is