Replace Door and Frame

Dinas Powys again this time replace a front door in an older cottage.

The door and frame were rotten at the base and no cill meant frequent driving rain under the door.

Finished (Damm no knocker)

Repairing the frame would normally have been a matter of simply scarfing in new section but when I obtained the price for a made to measure door at £600 I sat back and thought again.

A Wickes double glazed compound hardwood door and frame came to under £300.

By chiselling off the moulded door stop on the original frame and cutting down the new hardwood frame section by 20mm each side I was able to fit the new frame within the old frame complete with it's hardwood cill.

The old door frame was 25mm out of level, no wonder the door 'fell' open all the time. 

Matching the Blue paint to the outside of the house was a simple matter of taking a lump of door in to the supplier.

Here is the new door with all the original furniture taken from the old door, that letter box is huge!

Next job hack off the render over the DPC and create a bell mouth drip and a french drain.   

More elevated decking and stairs.

This was a large job undertaken with help although I controlled both the constructional and aesthetic designs.

From this picture one can imagine the bank that we cantilevered the main deck over. By using oversized and long timbers with supports we gained over two metres of usable space across the whole garden.

We suggested glass panel to afford an unrestricted view of the greenery where possible and developed our own mounting system. Unusual to see in timber.

The harsh effect sometimes experienced with decking was minimised by including a large curved front edge and by keeping the deck level low, by excavating into the lawn, a step is not needed; the deck flows from the grass.