Doors

One of the best ways to make a major improvement to ones home is to replace that worn out, leaky door with a door that is airtight. Whether an entry door, a door with sidelights, a french door, a sliding door, or an atrium style door, this is a great place to start improving your standard of living, while building value and establishing safety and security......keeping warm on cold days is good too.

Always get a prehung door unit. That is, a door that is assembled with the frame, the threshold (bottom piece), and the weather-stripping all in one ready to install unit. Some are as inexpensive as $125.00, but the truth is, you get what you pay for on doors, and windows especially.

The door business is tricky in today's marketplace. The easiest way to get a door is to get one that's in stock and on the rack at your favorite lumber store. This is Home Depot and Lowe's strongest suit. If you can find one there you like, pick it out and take it home. That was half the battle. Installation is what we do...we have you covered there.

On the other hand, if you need something custom, something distinctive, something to be special ordered, these same wonderful lumber stores are really awful. I've installed about 4 million dollars in product for them over the past few years and they have a failure rate of 34% (according to our records) for delivering a correct product, undamaged, on time. As a contractor, that's not acceptable. I have handled jobs that have been ongoing literally for months. Numerous miss-orders, re-makes, and shipping damaged products, then we factor in the slow downs created by untrained millworks personnel, it can be a nightmare for the consumer.

Local door manufacturers are a bit more expensive, but well worth it from my viewpoint in saved heartache for my customers. Specialists should handle special order products, not the untrained personnel we see at most millwork counters.

At the Window Connection, we want you to have the best possible remodeling experience. Knowing the pitfalls in the system is very important in making that happen. All that being said...lets look at some door types, features, and options.