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Bi-Fold doors

Custom made to "fit into" an early Victorian House.

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Photo: : View of the doors closed as seen within the sitting room.

Photo 2: View from sitting room into the dining room, with left hand pair of doors fully opened.

Photo 3: Close up  of the mouldings and the  "new" Victorian glass.

General description

The customer wanted to separate the dining room from the living room, probably as they had been once before. Brass fittings were required along with mouldings that matched existing mouldings. The glass had to be sympathetic to the period.

The doors are made from best quality joinery timber, fully mortised and tennoned. Finish is hand brushed white gloss - as per the rest of the woodwork.

The mouldings were achieved through the use of a router, then after building up part of the moulding, followed by a second pass with the router and different cutter.

The mouldings on the living room side were cut directly into the stiles and rails.  On the dining room side they were made separately. With the glass in place they were sprung into position and are held with a single 1" panel pin.

The two middle doors are suspended from "trolleys" that run in a channel section above the doors.

Close examination of the brass handles will reveal that on the living room side they are in the "outer doors" and on the dining room side, the "inner doors". Thus the doors can be opened or closed from either side.

There is no locking mechanism as such; when almost fully closed there is an "over centre action" that causes the doors to lock against each other.

Photo 4: View from sitting room into dining room. Left hand pair of doors fully open.

Photo 5: View of doors partially open , dining room side.

Photo 6: Detail of etched glass and brass fittings.

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