Thread: Thai Teak Wood Carved Doors and ordinary doors

I suppose as the forum is called TeakDoor we should have a thread about doors in Thailand.

Right, standard Thai door sizes are 70, 80 and 90 centermeters wide, and 180 to 200 centermeters high, these are standard buy off the shelf sized doors, obviously you can get doors made to any size and shape you wish to here in Thailand as labour is cheap and wood is the expensive part.

All wood doors have to be cut down to the size of the frame, most Thai fitted plastic doors also have to be cut down to the size of the plastic frame that is pre-made and measured to fit the doors and shouldn't have to be cut, unfortuneately the best laid plans of mice and men don't take into consideration as to who is actually going to fit the door.

The cheapest Thai doors are the plywood ones which start at about 500baht for an interior door and 900baht for an exterior door, these look like how much they cost, ie cheap nasty junk, proper hardwood doors start at about 2,000baht each and teakwood doors just under the 5,000baht mark, whichever doors you buy they will need extra work done to them in the sanding department, this is defineately worth doing if you have hand carved doors, some of these can cost around 30,000baht each so it is worth a few hundred bahts worth of labour and sandpaper to get them nearer perfect.

So lets start with this nice old Temple door, looks pretty good don't it ignore the light thingys round it, some Thais idea of class.