Where can i find an old internal door?

Question

I am replacing 1 internal door of my 1930's house as it is in a bad way. would like to replace it with the same. Any ideas, ie. is there a local reclamation yard near brighton?

Answer 1

i bought one last summer at an antique store,believe it or not .  solid  for $30

Answer 2

I see doors in big dumpsters all the time, but never when I need one!

Can you prowl your area, looking for houses being remodeled? I am shocked that people throw away nice mill items and hardware, particularly doors, and then replace them with ordinary, uninteresting cookie cutter doors and hardware that look like something out of any suburban house.

Kudos to you for wanting to preserve the nice features of your 1930s era house. I think that you'll need to look around, a lot, searching for that door. I don't think that you'll find it on ebay, that is not a good suggestion. You might take a picture of the existing door and put a "want to buy" ad on Craig's List to see if anyone has one for sale, or more likely, that they're throwing away.

Architectural salvage places usually charge too much. But you might get lucky. I don't know where Brighton is, so I can't recommend a any places near you.

Answer 3

Ebay - worth a shot - I was looking for a door not long ago and they had loads of old style doors dating back to the 30's & 40's

Answer 4

down the local dump restore it, there are 1,000's

Answer 5

yes more than one, if you can't find a door the same, you can still buy 30s style doors, new (there is a demand because so many people ripped them out!) you'll need to get the phone book out! if you don't want to trek around salvage/reclamation yards. yell.com or your phone book.

Answer 6

We had the same problem and finally found a dealer in the back advertising pages of a remodeling magazine.  The biggest problem . . . most homes were custom built up until the 1940s.   Mass standard sizing didn't come onto the scene (row homes excluded) until after the post WWII era when the burbs and subdivisions became the rage.  

We have eighteen cabinets in the kitchen of our late 1930's home. When we looked into replacing the cabinet doors, we found we would have to purchase nine different sized cabinet doors or rip the whole kitchen out and start new.  We refinished instead.    Seems everything old is new again and the people who had the foresight to save (or salvage) items when old buildings or houses were torn down are making a killing.  The big trend right now is salvaging the heart pine planks that were once the flooring in abandoned textile mills.  Good Luck!

Answer 7

there is a great site in the midlands and is in other areas www.freecycle.org it is part of yahoo groups.. i put on three of these doors u are asking for and they were gone by the evening...im sure there is one for brighton just search the yahoo groups and type in freecycle brighton and it comes up( with a lovely pick of the boats:)