Forum Archive: Posts by: your_old_landlady

I looks like we will have to do something with our entrance doors: tenants, ours and 2 entrance doors to the building. All of them are worn: some dings, loose and abused areas around door handles and locks.
Apartment doors are the same edwardian four panels painted 30X96 style doors.
Building doors are double with glass and single with glass all painted.
Can we restore our doors and how it is compared cost-wise to the option to get a replacement.
I have 3 issues with replacement doors:
1. I did not see our style available and we (obviously) want to keep the same style.
2. New doors are from new wood. I know how many pieces of the moulding you have to look through in Home Depot to find the single straight one. What will happen to our new doors in a couple of years and what if we find ourselves in situation when we will regret that we get rid of our old worn but perfectly straight and level doors?
3. Price of new doors. This might not be an issue if we discover that restoration is actually more expensive ( we have no idea now).

Please give us some advice. What would be the better and most cost effective way in this project?