Could someone please tell what I'm doing wrong or explain why I can't put a door on the old pre-war house?

maybe got to find the correct door for the correct job possibly idk i havent tried

I thought that too but I've tried everything I can think of and its been 30 minutes or more no idea why it doesn't work maybe its not an option?

I tried each of the available doors to try to replace that door next to the kitchen and no deal ... :/

Yupe that's the door that svcks I wanted to live in my old house with some damn doors on it D.

Anyone else have ideas?

I've been wondering about this too! I haven't been able to install any door anywhere. Whether it be a pre-war hose or my own construction. I've got to be missing something.

I think the old pre war houses are merely objects that cannot be snapped too, they look and feel like houses but cannot be renovated which is essentially what your trying to do. As with new constructions I've had no problem when i tried?

Interesting. I'll have to goof around with it some more.

God speed to you because I spent over an hour trying every door and everything I could think of D.Well if I can't put doors on the old pre-war houses I guess I'll go live in normal player housing since I don't like prefabricated damn.....

It is a known, and hotly debated topic - we can't scrap or truly rebuild existing homes.

The absolute best you can do atm is semi clever workarounds - e.g. Your old home in sanctuary. Side door from kitchen missing, cant build new door. So what you can do is build a small mini-foyer that extends out of that opening, and then build a door inyo your 'foyer' entrance.

Either bethesda will fix or ignore in later patches / DLC. Although doing it via paid DLC would be pretty lame,

Modders for sure will change it sooner rather than later, unless there is some core impediment with the settlement engine. Which would again be a really lame thing.

yeah this is my only complain about settlement i will love the option to "repair" old house, so they become house. i mean u can make ppl live there if u put a bed but some of the old house miss full walls. it fell weird.

Can't wait for a mod to scrap prewar homes.

The closest you can do to 'repair' an existing house is put up new walls over the old walls. Not elegant,,doesnt quite look right, and there's another whole raging thread issue re limited number of objects we can create

But you can put down a small floor object outside your house wall, then build a new wall that snaps to the floor edge. It makes the wall look new, but the decor obviously doesnt match, the roof cant be hamdled same way, amd creates more problems than it solves.

The one fairly uniform area of agreement is poor settlement features. Too hard, too easy, map too small, is just fine, mob density - those are all so personal pov it's hard to get consensus. Settlements though - intended or rushed, who knows - but it is clearly lacking some real head scratcher abilities why bethesda thought it was ok to launch without them.

They only snap to structures you place down, those houses don't count as structures they are just part of the map.