My daughter reported that the louvre door to her airing cupboard had had a crisis, so I just went over and collected a pile of loose slats and frame of a louvre door.
I don't have any specialist equipment or jigs, so apart from having some patience and luck in equally large quantities, can anyone suggest an easy way to put it all back together? I have googled a bit but only really found info by "specialists". It seems the slats should not be glued. I have a Workmate and can probably borrow another...
|
It's not worth the effort Just buys other louvre door. They're not dear.
|
>> Just buys other louvre door. They're not dear.
>>
Delboy's got plenty. Might be 'ookey, though...
Last edited by: Clk Sec on Thu 27 Aug 15 at 14:17
|
>> >> Just buys other louvre door. They're not dear.
>> >>
>>
>> Delboy's got plenty. Might be 'ookey, though...
>>
I have tried to find the youtube video of the Del boy "lowvree doors" sketch without success.
|
>> I have tried to find the youtube video of the Del boy "lowvree doors" sketch
>> without success.
This the one?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=80L63gblOE4
youtu.be/80L63gblOE4?t=11m28s
Last edited by: VxFan on Thu 27 Aug 15 at 21:14
|
|
While I tend to agree ( - found them for about £50 - £60 for her size...), daughter is extremely hard up, and I haven't much to do this weekend, so a little project for the Bank Hol weekend wouldn't go amiss.... :-)
|
I think not glueing comes from a time when houses changed temperature and dampness a lot causing the doors to warp all over the place, especially where different woods or different grain directions were concerned.
Just glue it.
|
Glue the dowells into the frame - assuming it's the old glue that's dried out, and the dowells and holes still exist, but leave the slats unglued.Try to assemble it on a large enough flat surface. Hold the sides in, with a couple of turns of masking tape, or duck tape, and put a moderate amount of weight on top to keep everything true until it sets.
8o)
|
buy a new one, you'll never get it glued together straight without clamps.
60 quid? treat her to a new one you tight git.
|
If you enjoy doing that kind of thing, and are competent, then fine. A pal of mine has done joinery & bespoke most of his life and enjoys doing things like that, especially for his daughters. As it will be on show, if it wasn't rght it would annoy me every time I saw it!
Personally for 60 quid I wouldn't even start....
|
Louvre doors are so very 70s!
|
>> so very 70s!
And a bit hotel/guesthouse...
They can look all right, varnished in contrasting exotic hardwoods and so on.
But louvres are tiresome to dust, albeit nowhere near as ghastly as venetian blinds, Oh God that reminds me...
We have been wittering about how to hang a curtain in front of a slightly crap built-in wardrobe in our bedroom, without reaching any firm decision.
Last edited by: Armel Coussine on Thu 27 Aug 15 at 17:58
|
70s or guest house maybe, but apparently it needs to be a door with "airflow", presumably to assist with the airing functionality what with it being on an airing cupboard.
I'm neither good nor that keen on doing this but if only you knew how much bailing out is going on at the moment. Off the top of my head - new iPhone screen today, two new tyres and 4 way tracking due next week. Already has a Mum and Dad credit line as long as your arm. She is stretched financially with a fairly chunky mortgage but no partner to share it with. She's really not that wasteful on most things but suffers from both bad luck and intermittent clumsiness. Lastly she's being TUPEd to a new employer next week and is under some stress as as a result.
Me? My recently-invested modest pension investment pot has lost getting on for £20k this week (about 11%): that's my real hard-earned money and it's a real and scary loss from my capital which hadn't yet had time to grow. Then there's the near-£1k I am down in an ISA I opened a month or so back. As I'm no longer working, I am hoping that both of those will slowly come back but it ain't been a great week money-wise!!
So there is a lot more going on than meets the eye. And there's nothing wrong with making ends meet, and her having to put up with bodges - I surely did when I was young - my parents rarely bailed me out.
However, realistically and given my d-i-y skills, I am fully expecting to have to buy a new door!! :-)
|
I guess for many of us the seventies were our finest hour. Quite nostalgic for Louvre doors, pine clad ceilings and.swirly.carpets
|
I built, from scratch, a whole fitted wardrobe in the bungalow we had in Pembroke Dock - yes - it (the wardrobe) had cheap louvred doors, painstakingly varnished with a clear matt finish.
This was in the mid eighties, so I was unfashionable then, too.
|
I do that stuff a bit sometimes. Last decent job was the bookshelves in here, blockboard properly located with mouldings along the edges, all finished in sort of semi-matt grey modern paint stuff.
They support a fair weight of schlock literature without sagging visibly.
There's other stuff to do but my heart sinks at the prospect of starting.
|
Rebuilding louvre door - CGNorwich
