£30 door is utter crap

got one thanks

just back from B&Q and found out why I got landed with an MDF framed door.....the one on display with the same code has a real timber frame ....stock is MDF...the manufactuer has changed the material...BASTARDS

all I wanted was some natural borrowed light from the bathroom into the top landing,,,no big deal

I think I'd take a photo and send to Trading Standards. Give them something to do.

Say your loss is the cost of getting a tradesman into replacing the door with something more like that on display.

can't be arsed

Yeah. Our cat managed to get stuck in the bathroom and the only way I could see of getting in there was to boot the door in. It took nearly no effort. The door was made of 2 panels of what looked like papia mache, a couple of metres of batten and a few cubes of polystyrene.

It's just as well though or i'd have struggled to get the bastard out.

'Papier' it seems. Long time since i've used the phrase, let alone written it.

Have you seen what the bottom panels of many of those cheaper white DG uPVC external doors are made of? A sheet of polystyrene foam sandwiched between two thin (<1mm) sheets of uPVC.

Reinforced panels with a layer of ply, MDF or metal are also available.

We have one upstairs at work, it has occurred to me that it might be as crap as that!

When I was building the house, the labour rate to install and paint the frame etc. plus the door ended up around £200 per. For a piece of cardboard s*it. Making em out of solid oak took the total up to £270...

I hope you didn't paint the solid oak.

Course not.

But they still needed a couple of coats of summat.

In schools round here it's caller paper mashy

Bill

At least you've learned something.

Most would look at the cost of a cheap internal door from Wickes, etc. About £55 for one made out of wood. And a glazed one costing more.

You're not much of a Scot. The notion they are mean comes from not accepting cheap rubbish. But merely wanting value for money.

When I bought the current house in 1991, previous owners had replaced two downstairs plain sapele doors with white moulded eggbox doors, the ones with a square fielded panel at the bottom and a rectangular fielded panel above with an upward curved top 'rail'.

I was taking up the carpets in my upstairs 3rd bed/office this AM, where I have relocated one of those 31+ YO doors and out of interest I weighed it. It weighs 16 Kg complete with half the hinges and the handles + doorlock. I do remember when I bought some more to match it in 2011 the newer doors were much lighter.

What does the spec of your crap door state for its weight ?.