Doors Dilemma- Width or Height comprimise

5 years ago

Hi All,

My flat has high ceiling 3.1m so I wanted tall doors. Ideally I wanted 2.4m High reverse folded doors, but after extensive research, I found that each door would have been at least 280GBP++.

Molding is essential, so I found metric doors 2040 height (instead of standard 1981mm H). But turns out they are quite narrow. So the doors I have ordered are 626mm Wide for bathrooms which are usually 686mm Wide 726mm Wide for bedrooms instead of 786mm wide.

Question- are 726 and 626 actually too narrow? There has to be a compromise- in height or width.. which one should it be?

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Jonathan
5 years ago
Presumably the property is being built and so you have the option of either. In which case you must challenge your budget and get wider doors and buy taller for the proportions of the rooms. Installing door requires a significant amount of labour cost and later moving them disrupts other things such as electrics, flooring and decorating so you won’t be able to do redo this later. It is likely if the property is being built now there are items on your shopping list that could be added later so you could save money on those items to fund the right doors now.

If the flat is already built then you must buy doors for the apertures you have. If you try to put in narrower doors then there will be significant cost to fill the gaps. Putting in taller doors may or may not be possible depending on the construction.
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Doors Dilemma- Width or Height comprimise

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