I am redoing a MCM home built in 1960. There are three doors in the main hall that require replacement as the previous owner had accordion doors installed there. The other doors are plain oak doors with solid oak trim.
I have, after much shopping, bought replacement doors from a local lumber yard. These were a special order as the doors are oak faced, 1 3/4 inch thick with finished edges. I bought solid doors and they weigh a ton. The jambs are oak without a separate door stop, the jamb itself having a thickness cut out where the door comes to rest. Sorry I can't find the name of such an arrangement.
Well I ordered two of these doors prehung as the frame for the third one had already been made to receive a conventional door prior to the accordion door being installed.
The salesmen at the lumber yard told me that their own shop could build the frames.
I have now taken delivery of these doors and here is the problem:
1) The jambs are 5 1/4 inch wide and instead of being built with a wide enough piece of oak stock were actually made up of two pieces glued on edge. Three of the four sides are acceptable, in that the grain and color of the oak match up, but one clearly shows the demarcation line
2) In order to secure the doors to the frames in transit, the people at the shop put two screws on each of these door assemblies through the door handle side jamb so that I now have screw holes near the top and bottom edge of the doors and in the jamb at the back.
Obviously these holes could be somewhat hidden with filler, but they will always show even with the low lustre finish I want to apply.
So my question is in the way of a reality check:
Am I right in thinking that the frames should have been built with full-width pieces of oak instead of two glued pieces?
Am I right in complaining to the vendor and insisting on frames and doors that have not been damaged by transit screws?
I have to call the vendor when the store reopens in a couple of days and fear that I will be told that I am simply too demanding and that pros would just install the doors and patch them up and be done with it.
I paid $1000 for these three doors to make sure that they are in keeping with the quality of finish of the house.
How would you guys react and would you consider that insisting on replacement frames and doors that are perfect is the normal course in such a situation?
Thanks! :help:
I have, after much shopping, bought replacement doors from a local lumber yard. These were a special order as the doors are oak faced, 1 3/4 inch thick with finished edges. I bought solid doors and they weigh a ton. The jambs are oak without a separate door stop, the jamb itself having a thickness cut out where the door comes to rest. Sorry I can't find the name of such an arrangement.
Well I ordered two of these doors prehung as the frame for the third one had already been made to receive a conventional door prior to the accordion door being installed.
The salesmen at the lumber yard told me that their own shop could build the frames.
I have now taken delivery of these doors and here is the problem:
1) The jambs are 5 1/4 inch wide and instead of being built with a wide enough piece of oak stock were actually made up of two pieces glued on edge. Three of the four sides are acceptable, in that the grain and color of the oak match up, but one clearly shows the demarcation line
2) In order to secure the doors to the frames in transit, the people at the shop put two screws on each of these door assemblies through the door handle side jamb so that I now have screw holes near the top and bottom edge of the doors and in the jamb at the back.
Obviously these holes could be somewhat hidden with filler, but they will always show even with the low lustre finish I want to apply.
So my question is in the way of a reality check:
Am I right in thinking that the frames should have been built with full-width pieces of oak instead of two glued pieces?
Am I right in complaining to the vendor and insisting on frames and doors that have not been damaged by transit screws?
I have to call the vendor when the store reopens in a couple of days and fear that I will be told that I am simply too demanding and that pros would just install the doors and patch them up and be done with it.
I paid $1000 for these three doors to make sure that they are in keeping with the quality of finish of the house.
How would you guys react and would you consider that insisting on replacement frames and doors that are perfect is the normal course in such a situation?
Thanks! :help: