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4th April 2010, 01:34 PM #1New Member
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Joining Two Timber Doors Together
I had an idea of joining two of those nice timber Corinthian doors (single lite) you can get from Bunnings for 150 ish - they are 2040 x 820 . I was thinking of ripping one stile on each door to half their respective widths then joining the two doors with a full length spline or some other means but wonder whether it would still want to jackknife a bit at the join since the the top and bottom rails are not continuous.
So maybe I rebate the top and bottom rail and put another spline there, effectively joining the two doors together better. Only reason I was considering this is the doors are quite inexpensive and would be an alright way of getting a wide slab that I could use in an external sliding door configuration. Four of these would span just over 6 metres. I have a 7 metre or so opening that I want to build some type of doors across. Have considered everything. Thought about using the Bunnings doors as multifolds but I'm not that big a fan of bifolding doors. So sliders would be good but 820 is too small and would need too many doors and hence way too wide a wall frame to accommodate them all.
Any thoughts or has anyone done something similar.
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4th April 2010, 09:44 PM #2
Are those doors real wood or mdf?
Many solid doors nowdays are a composite of mdf and veneer... you can tell by the price as real wood doors cost a bomb....................................................................
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4th April 2010, 10:31 PM #3China
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At that price I don't think they would be solid
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4th April 2010, 11:26 PM #4New Member
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Yes you are probably right - I'd have to have a better look at them - nevertheless I could still use them - they are not bad looking for the price.
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5th April 2010, 07:01 AM #5Skwair2rownd
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Could always overcome the jacknife issue by running spline full length across the top and the bottom. Use an epoxy glue.
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