Front internal door repair - any recommendations?

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Permalink Reply by Elinor Dashwood on December 12, 2018 at 10:19

Hi Marc,

Did you have any luck with this? We need the same thing! 

Many thanks

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Permalink Reply by Malc B on December 12, 2018 at 10:21

I'm afraid not, we're still trying to find someone. I'll let you know if we have any luck

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on December 12, 2018 at 12:29

Are you looking to get original-style Victorian glass? When I first moved to this house, our internal front door had all the original textured* coloured glass except for the central panel. That had been replaced with a somewhat ill-suited modern clear textured replacement.

That panel broke when the wind smashed the door closed. I was very busy at the time, so I didn't shop around exhaustively. I noticed that the leaded-light textured glass panel above our front door had similar pastel-ish colours to the side panels of internal front door, except that the latter was missing a blue panel. So, I did my best to match the blue colour and and ordered a central panel of the best matching colour from Carters Glass in Crouch End. They also fitted it.

It's far from a perfect colour-match and the texture is not Victorian. But purism aside, it's not bad. Our front door has must-get-that-changed-sometime modern clear textured glass. So, at night, with the lights on, there's a pleasant muted coloured glow visible through the front door windows.

*I've also seen the glass referred to as stamped glass and pressed glass. I haven't spent much time looking, but I haven't found anywhere that sells repro glass of the same type as, what I imagine was, the common-as-muck-glass that was originally put in our door.

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