HD Pre-Hung Hollow Core Doors

john5mt

Huh, around here paintable hollow cores dont come anyother way.

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charly

It is all about price.
All bigbox stores stock a full width door, so you can plane it to fit your opening. If you want it prefit, order it that way but you will pay for it. The coating on the jamb, get used to it. I see it on all primed product. I geuss to many painters dont like the prep of a raw jamb. As far as HD or Lowes having cheap doors, There are only 2 manufatures of molded door skins, and there are only a hanfull of layup shops. Lumber yard, local distributor, or big box if you buy a cheap hollow door, you get what you pay for.

BillD

I have found that not only do the doors from HD not have the bevel, but they have less solid material (funny how we used to be able to say wood huh) at the rails and stiles. When I get a door from my millwork guy I can cut 1/2" off the bottom and be comfortable that there is at least another 1/2" left on the door. I cut 5/8" off a HD door and had to re-build the bottom because there was nothing left.

This all may be changing though. I am finding that the local yards are starting to use some of the same material, I guess this is so they can compete with HD pricing.

Unfortunately, as others have said, sometimes I have no choice but to use the depot.

Bill

loneframer

I don't have any particular problem with the full width doors. It allows me to choose which side of the blank will be most visible and orient it accordingly. Then I set up my portable electric planer and bevel it however I wish.
I have gotten blanks from one supplier that had both sides beveled, which actually worked out pretty good. It just doesn't allow you to hide any small imperfections in the product by selecting which side will show from high traffic areas.

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TimNJ

All I do is door work and when it comes to interior doors I won't even do a slab change. It's a new prehung or I don't do the job. There is usually some kind of "issue" already with the door and that is why the HO wants it changed. I tell them if I use the same jamb, the "issue" is still there because I didn't set that jamb and I have no control over how it was done. If I install a new prehung it is all on me and I set the door the way I want it.

jradziew

Hi

The HD's around here if the door is pre hung it has a standard bevel, if it is a slab no bevel. They are jedwin doors also

John Rowley Ma

Framer53

This is the problem with the internet.

Every area of the country that Lowes or HD operate in have different millwork shops putting the prehungs together. This means that you may or may not have a good prehung from HD or Lowes.

I have found around me that their doors are fine, but do not have much or any bevel. The real problem I have found is they change suppiers at odd times and what was fine a month ago, may not be so today.

One other thing, my local guy or lumber yard, is so overpriced, I can fix a lot of problems before it is advantageous to use them.

jradziew

I agree with stock doors at lowes or HD but if you have to order a door or window my local lumber yard is as cpmpetitive as the lowes or HD and you don't have to wait three weeks. I odered a storm door extension it came in two days HD quote was 5-7 days. price difference was $2.50

stp57

Yea, I've found the same thing. Here in Texas, I get my doors from BMC West.
http://www.bmcwest.com/
They put a fiberglass exterior door with composite spliced jambs together in three days, whereas at HD or Lowes it takes 2-3 weeks. Plus BMC's jambs are yellow pine & the other guy's jambs seem like balsa wood. $300 for a 9 lite pre-hung seems like a lot but the quality is worth it.

carpentershane

Do you do this with a certain bit or do you have a jig that you do this with? I have been dealing with doors like this more often lately...

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BillD

I make the bevel with my Rockwell door plane. It has a fence that you can set for the bevel. My newer power plane does not have that capability. I do not know if there are any newer ones that do.

Bill

custrel

Did ten floors of units with cheap bi-folds and I swear that they were made out of cardboard or pressed paper with just a couple of 1" thick rails at the top and bottom for the hardware.

custrel

Bosch has a decent planer that will do this as well.