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British door sizes are a mixture of imperial leftovers, metric conversions and whatever a builder had in the van in 1968. Here's how to measure your opening properly, work out your trimming allowance, and decide whether to buy off the shelf or bite the bullet on made-to-measure.
A fire door is one of the few internal doors in a UK home that has to do a job beyond looking good. Here is where fire-rated doors actually matter, what FD30 and FD60 mean in practice, and how to keep a compliant door without ruining the room.
Old doors in protected homes come with a rulebook nobody hands you at completion. Here is the plain-English version: where consent is genuinely required, where like-for-like repair sails through, and how to keep the character while quietly improving fire safety and comfort.
Replacing every internal door sounds like a simple multiplication sum until you add linings, architrave, handles, finishing and fire doors. This guide breaks down realistic 2026 costs for a whole-house swap, room by room and tier by tier, so you can budget without nasty surprises.