On May 15, 6:54*pm, Oren wrote:
On Sun, 15 May 2011 20:14:47 -0400, Nate Nagel
wrote:





Friend of mine asked if he could borrow my router, because he needed to
replace a door in his house. *House is recent construction, doors are
hollow core "six panel" doors apparently made of pressed poop and fail.
*He bought a similar door (from HD) the same nominal size and just
wanted to rout the mortises for the hinges, because being mass produced
prehung doors they used radius-corner hinges.

The old door measured 29-7/8" wide. *The new door (Jeld-Wen) brand
measured almost 30-1/4" wide. *FAIL FAIL FAIL. *Of course I didn't have
a plane in the trunk of my car.

On the upside, while the old busted door appeared to have the outside
frame made of MDF, the new Jeld-Wen door, despite having the same flimsy
(understatement of century) facing, used real pine for the structure.

I personally would have been tempted to spend the $$ and buy a real
solid pine paneled door, but then the doors in the rest of the house
would have looked like **** in comparison...

nate

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OT: I am _now_ firm believer in using 36" doors everywhere when
building. I remodeled (total floor plan change) and reused the old
doors - 28" thirty years ago. Wife now disabled and can't manuever
her wheel chair through those narrow doors.

Harry K