6’8″ doors may not be that if they are metal clad. I’m currently fighting that out with a supply house who sent me 6’7″ doors but the old doors were a full 80″ and the new ones come up an inch short. Has anyone else come up on this problem and how did you handle it? Can 80″ metal clad doors be found?
Skip
Edited 5/24/2002 12:39:17 AM ET by Skip
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Ya got me curious.
Installed a 80" steel door in son's garage last year, it was right on 80". I walked out to my supply shed and measured the only steel door in the stack there, it was 83-1/4"!! It's in a stack of about 10 doors so I couldn't get to the label to see who made it.
If I were curious....I'd track down Steel City Sash and Jamb..they make all the local doors......HD...Lowes.....all the smaller yards have their stuff...and ask them. If I had any energy tonight....I'd even find a link for ya! But I don't! Maybe Yellow Book for Pgh. They'd know. Jeff
"That's like hypnotizing chickens........."
Most door companies do proprietary sizing on anything other than pure wood doors (which are a different kind of a pain in the butt for exterior). This means that the size called out 2868 is nominal only.
If you by a new door from the same company that built the old one, it should still fit. It sounds like you've got an old jamb from one company and trying to fit a new door from another compnay into it.
I was looking through the Pella web page today, and noticed that their Designer series french doors are available in 6-8, 6-10, and 8-0 heights.
Xcheck again the 6-8 door is not actually 6'8"
I've got some on a job and I think they are about 6'6-1/4" actuall
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Edited 5/25/2002 8:53:58 PM ET by piffin
I beg to differ with you, your emminence. According to the data sheet, the opening is 6'-8 5/8" and the frame is 6'-8 1/8". I read the 'opening' to be to the face of the top jamb, and the 'frame' to be the rails & stiles of the door panel. Could I be mistaken?
openning is rough openning and frame is jamb size in their terminology.Excellence is its own reward!
Thanks fellows. The doors were installed in 85 but show no name. I checked with Stanley, Republic,Thermatru and Pease but no one recalls making a true 80" door. They all run 79- 79 1/4". Only the operating units have gone bad and the owner wanted to avoid all new jambs and doors $7000 + versus $1000 approx for six slabs. Was hoping someone had run into this particular befor. Skip
Probably better off going with all new anyway. If I was a door manufacturer putting out such a poor product that it wouldn't last any longer than that, I wouldn't put my name on it either. Excellence is its own reward!
I have a problem that's similar but not quite the same as one that at the top of this thread. My brother wants to change the interior doors in his house just north of Baltimore. The existing doors are flat, hollow core doors that are 78 inches tall. His house was built around 1960 and he doesn't think they were cut down to accomodate changes in the floor covering. In any event, the openings throughout his house are now just over 78 inches high. I haven't seen them because I live two states away but, since I'm the builder in the family, he called me looking for advice. He'd like to replace the ugly, hollow-core doors he now has with six-panel wood doors. I realize he can take an inch off the top and bottom of 80-inch doors but I told him I'd try and find a source for 78-inch doors. My supplier, a great lumberyard that's 75 years old, checked with his wholesalers and was not able to find paneled doors this size although he said he could get solid, flat doors at any height I wanted. Anybody out there know of a source of 78-inch of, if you prefer, 6'-6" paneled doors. Thanks in advance for any information.
Edited 5/27/2002 1:13:53 PM ET by John Carroll
My supplier gets doors mostly from Brosco, a new england distributor. They handle Morgan doors.
I don't have any trouble getting 6'2", 6'6", 6'8", or 7'0" interior doors. premium upgrade pricing of course.
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Thanks Piffen.
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