Hi Greg, Happy New Year to you and yours. I too hate to see waste in general but also it's cost in this case. Just a single used uPVC door is really cheap - up to $100 at most but the used double French doors seem to carry quite a premium and buying new would be out of the question for an outhouse store. I was very lucky to get them for free from my neighbour, and even carried around to my house by some helpful builders working nearby. Cheers
Thank you Jamie, I've applied some 'static' security film to the glass inside and that looks better than a display window effect. As somebody pointed out in a useful comment, I'll probably pop the top and bottom beads off again and pack the corners of the glass in the frame so the glass braces the door frame and then the doors won't drop with the weight of the glass (I did not know that so it's a good shout.). Cheers
Hi Paul. Kudos to you for taking the time to video your Herculean efforts. Not a job mere mortals will tackle. You did extraordinarily well and the result speaks for itself. Happy New Year to you. 👏👏👍😀
Hi Chris, the doors look good and it's just another maintenance job I don't need to do anymore (patching and painting the old doors every few years). Cheers
Just did that this week, replacing a worn out sliding door with a new to the house set of French doors. Had to buy 2 single door frames to get all the lengths of pre profiled timber needed, and attaching them to the existing sliding door fixed member and the frame, and to the wall on the one side. Attached using some chipboard screws and drilled holes, and then to the wood the old fashioned way, dowelling into a hole, with wood glue to provide a bond, then a screw into the dowelling. Same dowelling also provided the plugs to fill the countersinks, as the frames are 48mm by 55mm, and the screws are 75mm, so drilled in with a 10mm bit around half way, then put the plug in to cover the hole. Bit of wood filler to touch up the gaps, and away it was. Hung the one door, using the existing hinge rebates, after trimming a bit off the base, then used that as reference to do the other door, and the top and other frame section. the last length of frame was used as a brace, after trimming to make it a plain rectangle, and screwed and glued to the wooden sliding door frame. Then locks installed, and the catches, and put the security gate back on the outside again. Got it nicely aligned, all those years of fixing doors finally taught me to get it right, the first few were not all that great, but you improve with time.
As a new apprentice builder I was sent to the local ironmongers in the next town, two miles away to get a box of putlog oles, I had to walk over the fell and back again carrying the large box the ironmonger gave me. The ironmonger told me they were the last ones he had and not to come back for more. He also said to look after them carefully, because they were scarce. When I got back to the yard, my mates seemed quite amused, my boss took the box, wrote on it Robert's putlog oles, took it into the office and put it on a shelf where it remained, much to everybody's amusement for ages. If you check out the walls of your house and stables/sheds you may be able to find the locations of where the putlog (h)oles had been when the house was built, usually two half bricks together at perhaps 4 or 6 feet vertical intervals. Best regards and a happy New Year, Robert
Hi Paul, Merry Christmas!! Excellent job. I know its taken time to do and to film it too but every time you walk past remind yourself that you won't have to paint it again ..... ever!! All the best!!
Are you not supposed to wedge the glass in the frame, so it’s square, otherwise the doors drop over time, due to the weight of the glass? You wedge it diagonally using the glass as a brace
Ah that's interesting. One of the doors was quite a bit out of square when I got them and that was probably the reason then. I'll knock the top and bottom bead strips off and put plastic wedges in the corners. Good spot. Cheers
With regard to security I cannot see what is to stop some miscreant levering off the beads and simply taking the glass out, so much quieter than smashing the glass! Anyway, have a good new year and here's to 2025.
If you check out the reflections in the glass you will see that the 'loose' beads are inside the doors, not outside. Some early plastic doors and windows did have external beads like mine, which are glued in with upvc glue and can't even be removed to fit new glass.
@@seapy2398I will have to look again because they seemed to be popping the glazed panels in from the outside and then applying the beads with a thump of a palm.
Hi, in the early years of uPVC windows and doors the beads were on the outside and thieves did indeed pop the beads off and take the glass out. It happened to a house near us years ago. For the last decades the beads have been on the inside to overcome the obvious security issue (not sure why the early designs had such an obvious weakness). Cheers
Nowt wrong with that brickwork! Very smart job sir!
Phil
Nice work. I appreciate your efforts to upcycle instead of tossing things into the garbage.
Hi Greg, Happy New Year to you and yours. I too hate to see waste in general but also it's cost in this case. Just a single used uPVC door is really cheap - up to $100 at most but the used double French doors seem to carry quite a premium and buying new would be out of the question for an outhouse store. I was very lucky to get them for free from my neighbour, and even carried around to my house by some helpful builders working nearby. Cheers
good video paul
🎉🎉 yay. Happy now. And amazing work
Thank you Jamie, I've applied some 'static' security film to the glass inside and that looks better than a display window effect. As somebody pointed out in a useful comment, I'll probably pop the top and bottom beads off again and pack the corners of the glass in the frame so the glass braces the door frame and then the doors won't drop with the weight of the glass (I did not know that so it's a good shout.). Cheers
Another enjoyable video. Thank for sharing. Happy new year!
Thx for the vid.
Hi Paul. Kudos to you for taking the time to video your Herculean efforts. Not a job mere mortals will tackle. You did extraordinarily well and the result speaks for itself. Happy New Year to you. 👏👏👍😀
When done Churchill I would have brought a new house .
Merry Christmas from down under
Hi Chris, the doors look good and it's just another maintenance job I don't need to do anymore (patching and painting the old doors every few years). Cheers
Just did that this week, replacing a worn out sliding door with a new to the house set of French doors. Had to buy 2 single door frames to get all the lengths of pre profiled timber needed, and attaching them to the existing sliding door fixed member and the frame, and to the wall on the one side. Attached using some chipboard screws and drilled holes, and then to the wood the old fashioned way, dowelling into a hole, with wood glue to provide a bond, then a screw into the dowelling. Same dowelling also provided the plugs to fill the countersinks, as the frames are 48mm by 55mm, and the screws are 75mm, so drilled in with a 10mm bit around half way, then put the plug in to cover the hole. Bit of wood filler to touch up the gaps, and away it was. Hung the one door, using the existing hinge rebates, after trimming a bit off the base, then used that as reference to do the other door, and the top and other frame section. the last length of frame was used as a brace, after trimming to make it a plain rectangle, and screwed and glued to the wooden sliding door frame. Then locks installed, and the catches, and put the security gate back on the outside again. Got it nicely aligned, all those years of fixing doors finally taught me to get it right, the first few were not all that great, but you improve with time.
As a new apprentice builder I was sent to the local ironmongers in the next town, two miles away to get a box of putlog oles, I had to walk over the fell and back again carrying the large box the ironmonger gave me. The ironmonger told me they were the last ones he had and not to come back for more. He also said to look after them carefully, because they were scarce. When I got back to the yard, my mates seemed quite amused, my boss took the box, wrote on it Robert's putlog oles, took it into the office and put it on a shelf where it remained, much to everybody's amusement for ages.
If you check out the walls of your house and stables/sheds you may be able to find the locations of where the putlog (h)oles had been when the house was built, usually two half bricks together at perhaps 4 or 6 feet vertical intervals.
Best regards and a happy New Year, Robert
Hi Paul, Merry Christmas!! Excellent job.
I know its taken time to do and to film it too but every time you walk past remind yourself that you won't have to paint it again ..... ever!!
All the best!!
Good work always takes time ...
great job, hope you had a happy Christmas and all my best for the new year
Well done.
Damp course? Is that what you are saying? If so what is a damp course? Thanks. 13:00
Are you not supposed to wedge the glass in the frame, so it’s square, otherwise the doors drop over time, due to the weight of the glass?
You wedge it diagonally using the glass as a brace
Ah that's interesting. One of the doors was quite a bit out of square when I got them and that was probably the reason then. I'll knock the top and bottom bead strips off and put plastic wedges in the corners. Good spot. Cheers
With regard to security I cannot see what is to stop some miscreant levering off the beads and simply taking the glass out, so much quieter than smashing the glass! Anyway, have a good new year and here's to 2025.
If you check out the reflections in the glass you will see that the 'loose' beads are inside the doors, not outside. Some early plastic doors and windows did have external beads like mine, which are glued in with upvc glue and can't even be removed to fit new glass.
@@seapy2398I will have to look again because they seemed to be popping the glazed panels in from the outside and then applying the beads with a thump of a palm.
@@TheOwlman The beads are on the inside DOH !
@@malcolmtill OK, I shall take another look!
Hi, in the early years of uPVC windows and doors the beads were on the outside and thieves did indeed pop the beads off and take the glass out. It happened to a house near us years ago. For the last decades the beads have been on the inside to overcome the obvious security issue (not sure why the early designs had such an obvious weakness). Cheers