I am awaiting fitting of some UPVC doors to all my external doors. The supplier has asked that in order to be able to fit their doors and to make it withstand a powered wheelchair user (which I need). I would need to install Stone steps /cills at the bottom. Can anyone advise what these actually are and where I could order these at a good price. I need 5 of them.
Sid
Plastic doors have a frame all round - i.e. there is a bottom bit to step over, quite unsuitable for a wheel chair - difficult to manouevre and in any case would damage the frame. This makes them cheap and easy to fit. So unless there is an option with an unobstructed threshold I'd go for trad wooden door/frame to leave the floor unobstructed. Also vastly superior to plastic - which is total crap. Your supplier is telling you (I guess) that you would have to build up the threshhold so that the frame bottom would be in a recess - like a rail at a level crossing, over which a wheel chair would pass. I think this is a bad design solution and would generate new problems. Either tell your supplier that wheelchair access must be possible and that they must do whatever is necessary - or go elsewhere.
Jacob
If the property is old I'd not fit plastic. They look ugly enough to devalue properties in some cases. Wood with linseed paint has a 15yr repaint cycle, is much more durable than plastic, and theres the option to varnish the interior instead of paint, which in the right house looks lovely.
Plus wood is far less money. And fitting is diyable.
NT
repaint cycle, is much more durable than plastic, and theres the option
Anglian the suppliers will only fit their threshold on top of stone. So I have to find out what these are and their approximate prices.
sid
Why not find a contractor who can do the whole job - there are plenty of them.
cheers
Jacob
Pretty much any paint will last 15 years but the substrate may not, so you will end up with perfectly durable flakes parting company with your woodwork. That's how paint companies can guarantee their products with such confidence.
When looking around for stone lintels I found...
Either tell your supplier that wheelchair access must be possible and
I did and they said they can supply the threshold but we must supply the stone steps.
Sid
Why not find a contractor who can do the whole job - there are plenty
Cant find any that will also fit a stone step?! Cill?
Sidk
Sir
I'd look at wood, and have sombody make little wooden ramps each side of the cill so that the chair can go over.
I visited this lot yeatserday, which is where my 16 windows will be comming from.
Rick
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