Home improvements – new doors – Mummascribbles

Having moved into our house in April last year, we haven’t done a huge amount to the house get. In fact as mentioned in this previous post, we have done barely anything! When you move into a new house, especially your first house, you don’t tend to have much money at the end of it! Luckily we bought a house that didn’t need anything major doing to it inside but there are obviously things we want/need to do. The most important thing that is on that list has been a new front and back door.

Upon moving in and talking to the neighbours, we found out that the previous owner was ‘a bit dodgy’ to say the least and both doors had been kicked in by the police! Just recently the lock on the front door has got really bad and it’s taken me a good couple of minutes to even get it open! There was one occasion just a few weeks ago that I actually couldn’t get my key to work! Luckily the other half was waking down the road at the time! As for the back door, that warps so much as soon as it starts raining regularly that it gets completely stuck and from the months of November to May we struggle to get the damn thing open and literally have to kick it closed. Not ideal as you can imagine and it’s why new doors have been top of our list since we moved in.

Of course, new doors are damn expensive so we had to make sure we were in the financial position to buy them. That time is now (yay to pay-rises!), and so we spent a fair bit of time researching what we wanted and where to get them from. I say ‘we’, the other half actually did all the research and I waded in on the final design haha! We always knew we wanted composite doors so it was just a matter of choosing colours and glass.

We decided to order from Yale Doors and once we’d put our order in, they sent round a surveyor to measure up. Then the order was completed and the doors were ready to be made. We were told that took 14 days and we’d then get a phone call to book a fitting and that might take a further 14 days. They called last Tuesday and booked us in a week later…yay!!

And so at just after 8am this morning, a man turned up with our lovely new doors to fit them. I’ve been working from home, listening to all the drilling, hammering and fitting of our doors.

And here they are!

Don’t they look beautiful and so much more safe and secure than the previous ones? I am so happy with them and am so pleased that we have ticked off something on our list of home improvements. It’s a slow process but it’s a massive start!