One of the projects we are working on is trying to clear our garage to make way for a forthcoming huge project (depended on planning permission!). Anyway one of the things we've had crammed in there for ages are the second hand victorian pine doors to replace our horrible 80's white chipboards ones, we bought them years ago then never got round to actually doing anything with them. As they had spend several years in a damp garage they had grown a fine crop of black mould, but several hours in the sunshine with a large amount of bleach on them sorted that out pretty quick.
It then took days of sanding to even the colour out and to tidy up the wood, at some point these doors have been chemically stripped (not by us) this has left the wood in a bit of a state which might be why then ended up at the wood reclamation yard in Bristol and why we picked them up super cheap! Once they where smooth enough and Rich had cut them to fit our door frames, in one case having to add wood to one door which wasn't quite wide enough we got them hung then came the job of waxing.
The wood was so dry by this point is just sucked up the wax meaning we used loads but they now look lovely. Luckily we had also bought second hand brass door knobs and latches from car-boot sales a few years ago, amazingly I managed to remember where I had squirrelled them away and after taking the latches apart and cleaning them up and greasing everything they now work great and have that slightly battered look that seems to characterise our cottage!
We're really happy with how they came out, Rich did an amazing job of cutting and making them fit (not easy as none of the frames where square!), but they look good now.
Another job off the list! Just the doors upstairs to sort out now!
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