Special timber door mouldings

[AEB]

I need to repair a set of what I would call French windows. Basically a left and right door that swing in and have a a handle on the right hand door that when turned sends a bolt into the top and bottom of the door frame to lock the pair of doors together and lock them shut. In order to give mine a watertight fit, the left hand door edge is nosed and the right hand door has a concave edge into which the nose fits.

My problem is that the mouldings on the right hand door are damaged after the door was forced open and I need to take them off and replace them.

Does anyone know what this type of wooden concave moulding is called in French (or even English)? The casement windows in my Roussillon farmhouse are of the same style so it must be fairly common.

Once I know what I am asking for I also need to find a specialist timber merchants as near to Ceret or Perpignan as possible to see either if such material is available off the shelf or they have someone much more skilled than I am with a plunging router.

Any recommendations?

Many thanks

[NormanH]

Not exactly what you want but a place to start...

Moulures de finition

http://www.castorama.fr/store/Moulure-de-finition-cat_id_164.htm?navCount=1&navAction=push&wrap=true

[Loiseau]

Maybe you could take a photograph of that concave one, or of an undamaged one, so you can use the "quelque chose comme ça" get-out?

Angela

[NickP]

Our windows have exactly the same system, all I can tell you is they are 40 years old so you might find it difficult to find the parts. I don't know your part of the country, but we have a store in our region called Lapeyre who if you take in a damaged shutter, window or door they will replicate it, not cheap but maybe cheaper than a new set of doors.

[andyh4]

You will almost certainly find that your local menuiserie should be able to replicate the piece. It may even have been his dad who made the originals and the patterns may well still exist.

[Chancer]

To my knowledge such a moulding does not exist as it is usually routed into the door halves with a concave and convex cutter.

Such a moulding were it to exist would need to be quite thick especially the concave one and would look really odd on a pair of finished doors and would cost more to produce.

If it were me I would make my own moulding on the router table, if its a thick door then the convex moulding can be made on a saw table by setting the guide at an angle and running the work across the blade at an angle, its quite and Advanced technique and you need to be quite experienced, bold  and confident.