Have you finally taken a good hard look at your front door? Have you convinced yourself and every person else in your family that replacing that old, rotting entry door will be the best thing to do and add value to your home? Are you finally so frustrated over the door not functioning properly, the draft you feel on a cold day, the constant fading and the lock not working properly? I can understand your frustration with an covering door that is old and worn out. That covering glass door with the foggy glass that is constantly getting on your nerves worsens your frustrations. You are now faced with whether a door repair, refinishing your door or a exchange entry unit. Do you repair, fix, replace or refinish that ole entry door?
We need to take some things into observation before venturing into the replacement, heal or refinishing of your door unit. Ask yourself why the door needs heal or exchange and what may have caused it (other than age) to look so old and worn out? If your front entry door is made of wood, is stained and is fading, be sure to report what the sun exposure the unit has. A stained door with a polyurethane finish, which has faded, may have sun exposure that is in excess of business standards. Only about 15 years ago the polyurethane on covering doors was allot distinct than what is ready today and not too environmentally friendly. Because of the environmental laws in place today the Uv safety in the polyurethane does not do a very good job of standing up the vicious rays of the sun. In general, the poly is not nearly as good as it was about 15- 20 years ago. In addition, if your door happens to have had a red tone color stain, such as a cherry or red mahogany, that red pigment is all the time the first color pulled out by the rays of the sun, changing the tone of the door to something with a browner tone in just a few months. Do not get me wrong; chances are the door still looks good and wonderful, but that red pigment will absolutely get "bleached out" by the Uv rays. More importantly is the polyurethane safety that is no longer doing what it is meant to do, safe the species of wood, but that is not positive to your eyes at first glance. Small cracks create in the poly allowing moisture penetration and the swelling, cracking and splitting of the lumber. Makes no contrast what the lumber is, it could be oak, mahogany, cherry or cedar, a door that is stained that has polyurethane failure will have door/wood failure if not maintained. Constant, possibly 2 or 3 times a year, maintenance is needed on a stained mahogany door with sun exposure or any species of a wood door.
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Even if your door happens to be a painted door that you have painted over and over again, you will still have failure in the form of rotting. Once again sun exposure is relative and most likely the cause. Sure expansion, contraction, rain and snow will destroy the wood over time, but it is the sun that is all the time the root of the problem. A nice paint job will all the time spiff the door up and look new again but that is absolutely a way of putting a band-aid over a bleeding cut. The door unit with that type of exposure will continue to deteriorate as water will find a way to penetrate the hairline cracks which by the way are not illustrated to your eye. The sun has created a condition in anyone halt there may be; painted or stained that allows moisture to be consumed by the lumber, sort of like a sponge. This moisture penetration will cause severe rotting, panel failure and split stiles over time and finally you will have a door unit with faultless failure. The need for maintenance still exists for a painted door as there is with a stained door with sun exposure. New fresh topcoats of paint for a painted door and a new topcoat of polyurethane for a stained door are required. Other choice for a stained door is a marine wax. Each turn of seasons, the door unit should be waxed to safe the finish, sort of like waxing a car. It is important to avoid any continued development of those cracks not seen by the eye. When you can see those cracks with a quick glance, you know they have been there for a while and you best move quickly.
Continuing our discussion about sun exposure is important so you as a homeowner have a clear understanding. Sun will originate chaos to anyone that is exposed for a lengthy duration of time. Just think about leaving your dining room table on you back deck in the sun and what it will look like in just a few short weeks. Unless of procedure you are growing tomatoes, grass, flower or corn, the sun is not a good ingredient for a door. Wood exposed for a long duration of time to the sun and the Uv rays will want maintenance, constant maintenance. So how can you decide if your door unit is exposed excessively to sun, and exceeds exposure to business standards? Let us begin with the direction your door is facing. Stand by your door and take observation to where the sun rises and sets. We all know the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, so you should be able to decide this without the aid of a compass. If this qoute door is facing south, west or southwest...you have an exposure problem, which will need to be addressed. The sun is at its hottest, strongest most damaging time in the late afternoon. So a southern exposure or a southwest exposure is the most critical. Your door, if facing in whether of those directions will take a beating.
Most all, if not every door manufacturer today want an overhang equal in size from the lowest of your door to the lowest of you overhang, or "X" needs to equal "Y". If "X" is your 7-foot door unit and to the lowest of your overhang is an further 3 feet, then "X" will equal 7 + 3, or 10 feet. Now "Y" will need to be 10 feet as well to be with-in manufacturers warranty standards. Manufacturers do not take this requirement suitable lightly, so be sure you have an precise comprehension of the warranty and precise measurements of "X" and "Y" to safe yourself. Know your warranty and know your exposure, it can save you thousands.
Now a door unit-facing north or east will have a distinct set of rules. While "X" remains as "X" and "Y" remains "Y", the contrast is now "Y" only has to be 1/2 of "X". So in our example above the overhang will only need to be 5 feet, instead of 10 feet that is required for a south/southwest exposure.
Although it may seem a bit confusing and manufacturers are "strict" in the compulsion of the warranty, it absolutely is for your own safety so you can make the suitable decisions when it comes time to your covering door. heal that covering glass door, fix that foggy piece of glass, refinish that fading door or replace that old entry door with confidence knowing what your exposure is and avoiding failure in the future again. Make sure you have the manufacturer's warranty, in writing, in your hand and all parties understand it what is covered and not covered. Most, if not all warranties for an covering door will not cover any labor to replace it and will not cover anyone if you have too much sun exposure. So you decide, repair, replace or refinish that old covering door.
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