Your exterior door questions answered!
QUESTION: HOW DO I DETERMINE THE HANDING OF A DOOR?
QUESTION: HOW DO I DETERMINE THE ROUGH OPENING FOR A DOOR UNIT?
QUESTION: CAN I GET A NEW JAMB MADE FOR MY EXISTING SLAB?
QUESTION: CAN YOU CUSTOMIZE A SLAB TO SPECIFIC SPECS?
QUESTION: CAN I GET REPLACEMENT PARTS FOR MY DOORS FROM YOU?
QUESTION: HOW DO I DETERMINE THE HANDING OF A DOOR?
- Facing the door on the side it swings towards, whatever side of the slab the knob is on determines whether it is a right hand or left hand swinging door.
QUESTION: HOW DO I DETERMINE THE ROUGH OPENING FOR A DOOR UNIT?
- For the height of a rough opening, remove the casing from the inside and measure the distance from the subfloor to the bottom of the header. For the width of a rough opening, remove the casing from the inside and measure the distance from stud to stud.
QUESTION: CAN I GET A NEW JAMB MADE FOR MY EXISTING SLAB?
- If the slab is delivered to Home Lumber, our doorshop can build a jamb around the slab to fit the door unit opening.
QUESTION: CAN YOU CUSTOMIZE A SLAB TO SPECIFIC SPECS?
- Depending on the door slab in question, we can cut down the height of a door to nearly any height, but we cannot cut down the width of a door slab.
QUESTION: CAN I GET REPLACEMENT PARTS FOR MY DOORS FROM YOU?
- Home Lumber stocks a variety of different replacement parts for Therma-Tru doors.