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Last winter I took a couple of (new) 6 panel pine doors down in my basement workshop. Over the course of about 3 weeks, I sanded and finished the doors and jamb sets. Then I installed them upstairs in our house, leaving 1/8″ reveal all the way around.
I figured I had the moisture content about right in the doors, as I have a wood stove in the basement. The temparature was typically about 70, and the humidity level about 50%. But as the weather warmed up, the doors swelled up to close the 1/8″ gap, and began sticking.
So did I have the doors too dry ? We had the AC on pretty much all summer, as my Wife has allergies. I thought that would keep the humidity level down enough the doors would remain relatively stable.
Whaddaya think ?
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Ron, each and every "correctly" installed door here in the Northeast stuck. My spiffy new L-N block plane had an extended test-drive, on both my work, and that of others.
Now, I can understand having to re-work other peoples work... but mine? ;-)
Must have been the 2 months of rain. Yeah. At least that's what all us NE Carps have been saying.
*Ron, Similar conditions that cause truss uplift with the seasons have no boundries .... must have followed you home from work.
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Last winter I took a couple of (new) 6 panel pine doors down in my basement workshop. Over the course of about 3 weeks, I sanded and finished the doors and jamb sets. Then I installed them upstairs in our house, leaving 1/8" reveal all the way around.
I figured I had the moisture content about right in the doors, as I have a wood stove in the basement. The temparature was typically about 70, and the humidity level about 50%. But as the weather warmed up, the doors swelled up to close the 1/8" gap, and began sticking.
So did I have the doors too dry ? We had the AC on pretty much all summer, as my Wife has allergies. I thought that would keep the humidity level down enough the doors would remain relatively stable.
Whaddaya think ?