"nnnnnnnnn" wrote in
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I just had a number of interior doors replaced in an old house that I
am having renovated. The door replacements were done to make all of
the interior doors in the house match instead of having mismatched
door styles throughout the house. The original doors were 77" to 78"
high. I had the doors replaced with inexpensive hollow core Masonite
veneer 6-panel door slabs.

The replacement door slabs were 80 inches high, so they had to be cut.
But the cuts meant that either the top or bottom ended up as just an
open hollow space between the front and back veneers. Somehow that
doesn't seem right to me. What do contractors normally do in this
situation? Do they really just leave the top or bottom open like
that? Do they try to fill in the space with a replacement filler
piece?

When I search in stores and on the Internet, I can't seem to find
interior door slabs that come in any size less than 80' high. Am I
missing something? Don't manufacturers sell hollow core doors that
are 78" high so that when they are cut a little shorter there is still
a solid end piece at the top and bottom?

Is my only other option to use solid core replacement interior doors?
And, if so, do they sell solid core interior replacement doors that
are 78 inches high?


As Dennis said,

1) Any so-called contractor leaving open ends on a door
is not a real contractor

I am not a real contractor either but I sure wouldn't do that. If the
door looked OK after the cut and hung I would have taken the paneling off
the cutoff piece which would leave the wood "filler" piece, put some glue
on it, slide it back up in the opening and clamp for a few hours. Heck,
might even get away with not clamping and just put some brads in to hold
it till dry. Probably never see them. Especially if they get painted.

Too bad you don't have the cutoffs???