The Medway Handyman wrote:
51 wrote:


I suppose..a better question.
With pine doors, what characterizes them as not cheaply made?

The pine. Even good quality pine won't be as weather resistant as hardwood.
Cheap pine doors use cheap pine. Good quality pine would probably end up
not far short of cheap hardwood so no point in using it.

A £50 door is worth £50. A £300 door is £300 quids worth.

Or not as the case may be.

There are two sorts of pine. Joinery quality was once called red pine
and was made with the various species that would absorb preservative
(or water, come to that.)

White pine, on the other hand, is pretty impervious and the finish on
the wood is not as good.

These days people will buy and sell any old crap (including illegally
logged tropical woods which at least one large firm in Scandinavia is
supplying the UK with.)

Either way, the door will need painting after it has been treatd with
preservative. I don't know much about modern preservatives but in the
good old days when we all used tabun derivatives, you had to leave the
preservative at least two days before painting.

That was because the preservative could react with the paint. Of course
in those days you could still get lead based primer so need not bother
with preservatives.

Along with species, joinery grade timber has no knots -or if there are
knots in it, they are of a certain nature not deemed defective enough
to mar the work. Search for "grading timber" for lists of quality
control.

I have actually seen veneered blanks edged with real pine -and knots in
the real pine. Bloody hell what *******. Never trust a man wearing a
suit or a uniform.