You end up with doors that shut with one hand, sit flush and stay that way through a winter, and the house feels finished in a way new paint never manages.
What This Article Covers
- The lining is the job, and in older Tranent houses it has usually been skimmed twice and is out of square.
- Hinges are let in by hand and the stop is reset to the closed leaf rather than left where it was.
- Hinge count follows the weight of the leaf, so anything heavy gets three.
- A fire door is a system, and the leaf, frame, intumescent strip, seals, hinges and closer are all part of the rating.
- Older Tranent openings are imperial and stock leaves are metric, so some doors are made to the opening.
- Rooms are finished one at a time and the waste goes with us.
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Door Fitting Services
What you end up with is a door that shuts with one hand, sits flush in its frame and stays that way through a winter. That is not what a door off a rack does when it is screwed into a lining that has moved.
The lining is the job. In an older Tranent house it has usually been skimmed twice, so the opening is narrower at the head than at the floor and out of square by a few millimetres either way. The leaf is scribed to that, the hinges are let in by hand and the stop is reset to the closed door rather than left where the last person nailed it. One day of work, one door that works. The difference between that and a door that sticks in February is entirely in the preparation of the opening.
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Internal and External Door Types
An internal door and an external one are different products doing different jobs, and the failure modes are different too.
Internal doors
Panelled, flush and glazed leaves all hang the same way but weigh differently, and the hinge count follows the weight. A solid core leaf on two hinges will drop within a year. Three hinges as standard on anything heavy, and the screws go into the frame rather than into the lining alone.
External doors
Timber, composite and glazed external doors all need a weather seal, a threshold that drains and ironmongery rated for the exposure. On a coastal aspect the ironmongery corrodes first. That is the same standard we apply on house renovation contractors across Tranent work. Specify for the wall it sits in. A door facing the Forth takes different ironmongery from one on a sheltered rear elevation, and the catalogue will not tell you that.
Fire Doors and Compliance
A fire door is a system rather than a leaf, and it only performs if every part of it is right.
What makes it compliant
The leaf, the frame, the intumescent strip, the smoke seal, the hinges and the closer all carry the rating together. Swap one for a part that does not carry it and the rating is gone.
Where they are required
Flats off a common stair and habitable rooms opening onto an escape route are the usual cases, and a loft conversion normally brings them in. We fit them the same way on a door fitting in Elphinstone job. Rated components, fitted the way the rating requires.
Door Supply and Installation for Tranent Homes
Door sizes in the older Tranent stock are rarely standard. The miners’ terraces and the interwar co-operative houses were built to imperial sizes, and stock leaves are metric.
Two routes out of that. A stock leaf can sometimes be trimmed within the manufacturer’s allowance, which is limited and stated on the door. Where it cannot, the leaf is made to the opening in the workshop, which is the same route taken on any purpose made joinery. We will tell you which of the two your openings need at survey rather than on the day. Measuring eight openings takes half an hour and settles the whole order.
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Replacement Doors and Door Hanging
Replacing doors through a house is the least disruptive joinery job there is, and it is usually done in one visit per floor. Nothing is opened up, no services are touched and no room is out of use for longer than the door takes to hang.
Old leaves come off, new ones are hung, and the ironmongery is set out from a rod so the handle heights match through the house. Dust sheets go down and each room is finished before the next one starts, so you are never without more than one door at a time. Waste goes with us. Nothing is left leaning in the hall overnight, and the old ironmongery goes with the old leaves.
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Door Fitting in Tranent: Your Questions Answered
How disruptive is having the doors replaced in a Tranent house?
It is the least disruptive joinery job in a house. Dust sheets go down, each room is finished before the next one starts, so you are never without more than one door at a time, and the waste goes with us rather than sitting in the hall.
Will a standard door fit my older Tranent house?
Often not without work. The miners' terraces and the interwar co-operative houses were built to imperial sizes and stock leaves are metric. A stock leaf can sometimes be trimmed within the manufacturer's allowance, and where it cannot the leaf is made to the opening in the workshop.
Do I need fire doors?
It depends on the property and what is being changed. Flats off a common stair and habitable rooms opening onto an escape route are the usual cases, and a loft conversion normally brings them in. Where they are required, every component carries the rating and is fitted the way the rating requires, from the intumescent strip to the closer.
