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    Default external doors and frames - help & advice pls

    After some advice/guidance at the back of my home is one of those glass sliding doors with the aluminium frame.
    It's not something that I like nor want to repair.
    The opening is approx 1800mm wide by 2000mm high, width about 120-150mm.
    My question is what types of timber would be most suited to make a new frame and also for the door.
    It opens onto the screened room which is fully covered.
    What I am planning is to have two solid doors plus two screen doors.
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    I think good frames used to be commonly made from WRC with merbu or kwilla sills, but I guess these days painted frames might be made from some sort of finger jointed treated pine.
    Franklin

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    If it is going to be paint finish just get the blue primed finger jointed pine jamb from the green shed, they have it single and double rebated if you plan on fitting a screen door.
    If you plan on fitting a sill they will have some merbau to do the job but often a sill is not fitted

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