I haven't been uploading because life has been happening. My pregnant wife had pneumonia which put her in the hospital for 4 days :( I had to take care of our other 4 kids and work. So it was pretty rough. I got a little taste of what it was like to be a single dad. It was not fun. I also had a close family member die :( It all happen at once... Everything is good now! Baby is doing great! Count your blessings guys. Life is too short.
Sorry to hear about your loss. I hope your wife is back to 100% (or as close as one can be to that while pregnant) soon. I really enjoy your videos and your attitude/demeanor. Thank you.
Hey buddy! Just bought my first house and your videos are saving me!! Keep up the great work! And the honesty you provide to your clients...too many people try to shortcut nowadays, and the ethical ones will go far at the end. Cheers!
I’ve replaced hollow core doors with solid core doors in every house I’ve owned. It’s expensive, yes, but the sound-proofing and temperature-proofing makes it worth it to me. It also adds to the feeling of sturdiness and quality of the home.
Richard, Thanks for all your teaching videos and work ethic. May this year be full of prosperity and adventure for your business Praying for you and your family from Charlotte, NC.
I really enjoy your videos and your delivery is always spot on . I'm glad the wife and baby are doing well and I am sorry for your loss. You seem like an honest , hardworking , giving person who could be a great inspiration to a lot of these young knuckleheads out there. With your hard work and dedication , you will get everything you ever wanted. Hang in there brother!
Big disadvantage for me in hallow doors is no soundproofing. I was thinking if you would drill the holes from the top and bottom and inject SPRAY FOAM inside maybe this will make better sound barrier? Does anyone have any ides?
We're building right now and the doors are about to go in. We upgraded to solid-core doors throughout early on and didn't know if it would be worth it. This video helped so much, thank you!
I love these videos! I have to add a vent to lower portion of my door for a front vented wine fridge and trying to figure out what is in there to hold my vent panel
You said you only have so many chances to screw in those hinges before they strip out. If you didn't know you can tap some toothpicks in a stripped screw hole to give the screw something to grab on to. Works like a charm.
XxStratAttackxX . An even better way it to use golf tees. Can usually fill 2 or 3 holes with a single tee. Most of the tees are maple so they can have screws taken in and out several times.
As you said about your own rented house, our 70's home had some pretty naff doors, so these hollow core doors with their six panels are a great improvement, at low cost. If I ever can afford a half-million pound (or dollar) house, perhaps I'll fit solid. To maintain the look throughout my house, I used the same type on some cupboard doors, but usually could not get the exact sizes I needed. I took to cutting larger sizes down, and cleaning up the cut off edge or bottom solid pieces and glueing them back into the narrowed hollow section. You would have loved it!
My 22 years old house have hollow doors, they have been servicing perfectly to the point that I didnt rembeber they where hollow until I stumped with this video.
I used to work for a company making those doors. We made 1 door per 3 seconds gluing them together 4 people on each side at a time, yep they used cardboard spacers inside. They glue them together and use the weight of IDK about 12-20 on top each other one after another.
Corrugated cardboard is a fantastic material - it's light and very strong in compression. It's great large amounts of forin this application for providing strength to a hollow shape where large amounts of force aren't expected. Sure, solid would is of a higher quality, but 'better'? I think you could make the argument that it's completely overkill for most interior doors.
That chipboard on the hinge side is the lock block. You're supposed to keep that side on the lock/latch side so you have something to screw into for the handles. Here in the UK, these hollow doors have a printed mark on the top of the door indicating which side the lock block is on.
I have often wondered if there was a way to take advantage of them being hollow and put some sound insulation in those doors. I get a lot of noise coming through one of these doors leading to a laundry room.
Glad things are going well again.Yep things can change in a heartbeat. On the bright side for hollow doors they burn really well. Yea I know the health risks with mdf but we had a an awesome campfire on my last outing and with few around we burned two of those doors vs taking them to the dump. We had 20 foot flames, they went fast.
I am always impressed with the weight of a solid door, the sound they make when closed and how they feel as you swing them open. I haven't thought this through but what if holes were drilled at the top and sides and the door was filled with sand? It would provide weight and sound proofing and no cancerous fumes from spray foam filled alternatives. If the door suffered a hole, it might be quite a mess but I was hoping to get thoughts from others. Please go easy, I did say I haven't thought this through yet.
If it was completely filled with sand the door would be too heavy. I imagine the screws wouldn’t hold at the hinge points in these kind of doors beyond a certain weight.
Thanks for the visual. I wanted to cut one of my doors to fit some shelves in my closet I have three hollow doors that slide side to side to get into the closet. The doors are hollow and I wanted to know whats inside the doors to cut the sides of it like 1/2 inch each so I can fit my shelves
Once upon a time, I worked at a yard that had a door & window shop. That stuff you refer to as 'melamine' is actually just either particle board or OSB, and is there because hinge and strike screws won't 'bite' into MDF. 'Melamine' is actually a laminate, but commonly refers to hardboard ('Masonite') with veneer grade laminate (1/32" Melamine) applied. Center spacers in hollow-core doors are corrugated cardboard 'honeycomb' to add some rigidity. Skins are typically either 1/8" (more or less, these days) lauan mahogany or (thinner than 1/8") vinyl. Not bad looking, but not awfully durable, either way.
Joe T.....No doubt, there are ways to get it to work! In fact, speaker enclosures are a great place to use MDF! In applications where it would be subjected to constant and significant lateral stress (e.g. the weight of the door, multiplied by constantly pulling on hinges while opening/closing), it would fail pretty quickly, though. It's simply a question of choosing the best material for an application. Notice that, in the video, you can see MDF used in the 'molded' parts of the door. Edge blocks, though, are always either solid wood or particle board/OSB......in my experience anyway. :-)
You didn’t notice that the latch side was in fact the hinge side (had the slim spine of wood inside) as the lock block was used for the hinge side by mistake. That large piece of particle block was the lock block.
If you have a "mobile home" or "modular" the cabinets are built in place from scraps also, eye opening experience when we tried to re purpose our kitchen.
Did you look where the door knob is installed? I think there is a thick block there as well to prevent the door from smushing down when the hardware is installed..
I'm glad you posted this because I need to a new 20" 6-panel (really 3-panel) door for my kitchen pantry. Home Depot wants $350 to make a custom one because it isn't a standard size. A 36" door, however, will be perfect if I rip it correctly and fill in the gap. Now I know what's inside so I don't waste a $80 door.
No explanation for the recent lack of uploads required, Richard. We DFW Crown groupies greatly appreciate whatever and whenever you post. Sorry to hear about your rough patch but glad that it's behind you and wife and new baby are doing well. I sure wish you were my neighbor :-)
Many thanks! Excellent video and detailed explanation of material used in construction of a hollow core door. Would it be foolish of me to try to install a small passive air vent near the base of such a door?
I seen your vid about how you trim hard to get too windows all in one peice. Do you have a vid about how you do just a typical window? Is it jam then casing or do all your windows get jam an casing before installing them?
Melamine is the thin colored covering on a substrate, they even make dishes out of it. That wood your pointing out for the hinges is particle board/chipboard. I'm surprised they didn't put a strip of actual wood on the hinge side instead of that mdf chip board combo.
I think that any solution have their advantages and disvantages. When we promote it as a cheap door, directly we look for disvantages because the vantages are not published by the manufacturers, value vs cost is an important parameter and the way you offer any product will influence your costumer decision. If we look at the body of Formula 1 car, read about the evolution and we cut it like the door, we will se basicly the same structure, too much air between skins, but it´s well known that is not cheap, and directly we look at the vantages because we were previously informed and we focus on the advantages of light weight structure in racing cars. Of course not all materiales takes advantages in all kinds of engineered structures present in the market. In my country, Venezuela, we made all the walls of our houses with clay bloks and mortar, and when we see the North American constructive method is normal to think that you have cardboard houses, that´s absolutly not true, you have many advantage with available material and enough skills to rise a house that resist your enviroment, we have our advantage, because specials skills are not necessary to pose blok over blok, any of them have their value/cost index. Saludos Gerardo
Thanks man I was in a discussion with someone about what material the top and bottom of the interior doors were made of I kept googling, but nothing Masonite thx man
Hey chief, one of the panels of my hollow-core door is punched in. Is there an easy way to fix it without replacing the whole door? I was thinking of just cutting out the panel and then gingerly fixing it from behind and then replacing it. Any ibetter deas?
We put doors in our house called Safe and Sound. Very heavy 6 panel smooth finish same pattern as you just cut up. However the doors we got is just full of particle wood and around the door lock area some of that broke out and when fastening door handles we couldn’t screw to tight as the door skin just kept on going in until a crack started to appear. I never understand why the take really good lumber break it down into smaller pieces and the glue it back together.
HC doors are the worst! I just finished a house where they cheaped out at the end. Started with fairly nice doors [solid particle board] but ended up with the cheesy hollow crap. Just barely a year old now, and some of the doors are already failing.
Melamine is the coating applied to shelves and countertops. It's the hard "plastic-like" surface. It's not the wood the shelves are made of. What you said was behind the wood edges on the door is just low-density fiber board.
Very surprising thing for me is this door is made in India. Most homes in India use solid wood doors. My home has Teakwood exterior doors and other solid wood interior doors and windows. Looks like everyone is cutting corners on quality these days. Totally agree durability is the most eco friendly and economical chois than filling landfills with cheap garbage.
I'm considering filling one of these CHEAP Hollow doors with INSULATION FOAM and using it as a Storm door.... Just wanted to get your thoughts on that...lol. Basically I adopted 2 CATS and need a way for them to get into the garage where the litter box is, and I can't Cut into the "Fire Door".... So right now I just leave my door open, with the rolling door closed.
Go with me here... working a jobsite for a year{ 3500 sq. ft. homes } with 8/0 solid core doors. 60 doors per unit and most go upstairs. UGG! To rebound from that on a condo job with H/C doors. Gotta love them...
How would you go about cutting such a door in two parts. Thinking of getting 2 of them and doing half paneling on the wall. If I can split such a door in two identical parts... Then I could do a whole room half panel bottom wall for extremely cheap. Anything is possible, but what would be the best way? So splitting the door on the sides into two identical pieces. Would be flimsy, but would have brandring in the back of it.
Building your own custom doors is probably a cheaper and better option especially if you know millwork.. me personally i like barn doors and I've built all of mine.. great video ❤
There is actually two types of hollow core doors. They make ones with finger joint pine sides instead of MDF. I prefer the finger joint pine in the northern climates where you have dry winter and humid summer. MDF swells a lot in the summer and will cause rubbing. And MDF like you said you only get one chance with the screws!
If you want a privacy barrier, that door is fine. You can work out the internal structure by tapping, different parts will sound different. I have been looking at DIY camper conversions, all that I have seen specify 19mm ply for a QB. I need a KS, not so wide but I need length. That kind of construction would be lighter, quieter, cheaper, and give improved fuel economy over the years.
I watched this because one of my hollow core doors has failed at the hinge. The MDF at the hinges is probably 1/4th of an inch thick with nothing behind it for the screws. It's amazing how cheap it is.
I’m curious if you ended up doing this. I’d be concerned that expanding foam might pop the door apart, and that the foam might not do much, since it’s mass that blocks sound-but those concerns might be totally unfounded. If it worked that’d be a handy stopgap for crappy apartment doors.
@@jenbow88 I haven’t done it yet. It’s on the list. I think they are basically laid out in 1/4s. I was going to drill 6 holes. 2 top, 2 bottom and 2 on the hinge side. I was wondering if it would pop the laminate off myself. I think they are probably more sturdy than you would assume.
I live in an 1800 sq ft suburban house built in the 90’s and it has beautiful solid wood 6 panel doors downstairs and flat hallow core doors upstairs. All the doors are original too, the house came that way. I’ve made the mistake of getting mad and punching them it’s it made a hole that went half way through.
Air and a thin cardboard honeycomb on edge. I've had to cut them short enough that I had to take the old bottom out, sand the skin off the bottom insert, take out the web far enough to reinsert the old bottom insert, and reglue it inside.
Premdor produce thousands of these doors every day. They use the Masonite door skin & stick it together with a few pieces of timber to make an ultra cheap door. Here in the U.K. those doors cost around $13. The old saying is very true, you pay for what you get.
I believe that block of melamine is for the door handle hardware and they have actually put the hinges on the wrong side. I may be mistaken as there could also be a block on the other side but thats how they are made in Australia. Usually our side rails are made from pine, not mdf but looks pretty much exactly how they're made here. Just thought you might be interested
Even solid cores will be filled with mdf material. Better solid cores have more real wood. Advantage of the mdf solid cores is, they are more temperature and humidity stable. (Not water). Solid wood doors change dimensions with the seasons and may warp.
@FinishCarpentryTV I was wondering if you could help me out. I am looking to repair my interior apartment doors. They are hollow-core door. I have looked online for blueprint or DIY to make hollow core doors, I also checked UA-cam. I am unable to find any. Can you please or anyone help me out. Thank you
It happens all the time/you speak the truth/some shaker doors are mdf but there solid right/i went with solid core roman smooth with poplar frames base a trim custom cut/and don't punch a solid core unless u want to brake a hand
Need to know what is on the handle end of the hollow door, as we want to put a longer cabinet handle, disappointed you cut that off and did not show it.
What is the job of a modern internal door? it does not need to withstand power it does not need to withstand pressure or humidity it does not need to do anything but to create a good sight barrier between two spaces - and for that purpose, this door does exactly what it is meant to do. could it sound proof better - that would be an advantage, but even for that, the cardboard fill would do better than solid wood. thank you for the interesting video
Has the job of not making the owner feel like he is living in a cheap piece of crap every time he opens or closes a door while paying 25-50% of their income in mortgage.
No Luisa , unfortunately you can't . Even an 1-3/8" thick interior solid core door would reduce that noise by 80 - 90 % . Foam insulation couldn't reach every little cavity in the door , and may cause the door to swell . Hollow core doors are not only inexpensive , they're also very cheap ( i.e. poor quality ) .
Can anyone comment on the internal wooden frame? How (typically) "tall" is the bottom frame? Update....oops....just saw your note above about the life's issues that came up. Hope all is going well.
These doors are okay for closets but as room doors they suck one good breeze and it's "Slam bang" then when closed it keeps banging because it's still moving with the breeze
Yea mdf isn't great to screw in and out of.. i agree you shouldn't really use them on a higher end house.. but if you ever just tear out all the wood to the point where you can use a screw just insert an anchor to fix it.. i usually drill a 3/16" hole, insert the anchor, then then screw in the new anchor screws carefully and it should hold.. if you ever tear up the anchor just use the 3/16" bit again and it will cleanly take out the anchor and it leaves it like new for the new anchor.. Great way to save money especially if your living in a house that you don't see yourself living in for the rest of your life..
Man that is some crap. They used to run a sliver of finger jointed pine by way of 'framing'. I think I might even refuse to hang a mdf door into an mdf jamb. The last house I did the contractor wanted to do all the trim in mdf, I was at least able to get the wet areas done with actual wood molding [finger jointed, but at least wood]. I went back last week to install something and saw a lot of damage to the mdf baseboards and door trim. Glad your lady and baby are OK! PS melamine is actually the colored coating that they put on the coarse kind of particle board inside that door. I call it chunk board, or chipboard. Crap, all.
I live in a mobile home, I'm sure that's how our doors are constructed. I tried to hang a ceiling fan the other day and discovered how badly our roof trusses are constructed. I couldn't even mount a retrofit brace system in there without making another hole in the ceiling and putting wood blocking in the trusses. What a pain.
I haven't been uploading because life has been happening. My pregnant wife had pneumonia which put her in the hospital for 4 days :( I had to take care of our other 4 kids and work. So it was pretty rough. I got a little taste of what it was like to be a single dad. It was not fun. I also had a close family member die :( It all happen at once... Everything is good now! Baby is doing great! Count your blessings guys. Life is too short.
Finish Carpentry TV That does sound rough. Glad it's past you.
Finish Carpentry TV sorry to hear about the hard times man. Hope your wife is doing well.
Glad things ok now!
Hope everything is fine with your wife and thanks for sharing videos no matter the situation that you are passing by
Sorry to hear about your loss. I hope your wife is back to 100% (or as close as one can be to that while pregnant) soon. I really enjoy your videos and your attitude/demeanor. Thank you.
Hey buddy! Just bought my first house and your videos are saving me!! Keep up the great work! And the honesty you provide to your clients...too many people try to shortcut nowadays, and the ethical ones will go far at the end. Cheers!
I’ve replaced hollow core doors with solid core doors in every house I’ve owned. It’s expensive, yes, but the sound-proofing and temperature-proofing makes it worth it to me. It also adds to the feeling of sturdiness and quality of the home.
Richard, Thanks for all your teaching videos and work ethic. May this year be full of prosperity and adventure for your business
Praying for you and your family from Charlotte, NC.
Sorry to hear what you’ve been going through, may all the days going forward be great ones. Glad to hear your wife and baby are doing well now.
I really enjoy your videos and your delivery is always spot on . I'm glad the wife and baby are doing well and I am sorry for your loss. You seem like an honest , hardworking , giving person who could be a great inspiration to a lot of these young knuckleheads out there. With your hard work and dedication , you will get everything you ever wanted. Hang in there brother!
Glad things are back on track for you and the family. The best to you all and good luck.
Great video!
Sorry to hear about the bad things happening... sending positive vibes from California!
Digging the new Intro 👌🏽 keep up the hard work!
Big disadvantage for me in hallow doors is no soundproofing. I was thinking if you would drill the holes from the top and bottom and inject SPRAY FOAM inside maybe this will make better sound barrier? Does anyone have any ides?
We're building right now and the doors are about to go in. We upgraded to solid-core doors throughout early on and didn't know if it would be worth it. This video helped so much, thank you!
Im so glad you took the time do this ..i needed to know this as i know now i can use the skins to make wall panels
The block you saw on the hinge side is actually the lock side, the door must have been hung the wrong way around
Thanks again bud. Gonna start trying to make my own doors. You do amazing work.
This was very helpful! Thanks for doing this! I was worried about trying to trim off the bottom of a door, but I feel better about it now.
One year later, can I ask how this went? That's exactly why I ended up here lol
Glad wifey is doing well & my condolences for family member.
I love these videos! I have to add a vent to lower portion of my door for a front vented wine fridge and trying to figure out what is in there to hold my vent panel
Thanks for the info💯🎯 Always wondered what it looks like
You said you only have so many chances to screw in those hinges before they strip out. If you didn't know you can tap some toothpicks in a stripped screw hole to give the screw something to grab on to. Works like a charm.
XxStratAttackxX . An even better way it to use golf tees. Can usually fill 2 or 3 holes with a single tee. Most of the tees are maple so they can have screws taken in and out several times.
As you said about your own rented house, our 70's home had some pretty naff doors, so these hollow core doors with their six panels are a great improvement, at low cost. If I ever can afford a half-million pound (or dollar) house, perhaps I'll fit solid.
To maintain the look throughout my house, I used the same type on some cupboard doors, but usually could not get the exact sizes I needed. I took to cutting larger sizes down, and cleaning up the cut off edge or bottom solid pieces and glueing them back into the narrowed hollow section. You would have loved it!
My 22 years old house have hollow doors, they have been servicing perfectly to the point that I didnt rembeber they where hollow until I stumped with this video.
I used to work for a company making those doors. We made 1 door per 3 seconds gluing them together 4 people on each side at a time, yep they used cardboard spacers inside. They glue them together and use the weight of IDK about 12-20 on top each other one after another.
If you sprayed foam insulation in it, would it help with blocking sound?
Corrugated cardboard is a fantastic material - it's light and very strong in compression. It's great large amounts of forin this application for providing strength to a hollow shape where large amounts of force aren't expected.
Sure, solid would is of a higher quality, but 'better'? I think you could make the argument that it's completely overkill for most interior doors.
That chipboard on the hinge side is the lock block. You're supposed to keep that side on the lock/latch side so you have something to screw into for the handles.
Here in the UK, these hollow doors have a printed mark on the top of the door indicating which side the lock block is on.
Thank you. You answered my question.
I have often wondered if there was a way to take advantage of them being hollow and put some sound insulation in those doors. I get a lot of noise coming through one of these doors leading to a laundry room.
Glad things are going well again.Yep things can change in a heartbeat. On the bright side for hollow doors they burn really well. Yea I know the health risks with mdf but we had a an awesome campfire on my last outing and with few around we burned two of those doors vs taking them to the dump. We had 20 foot flames, they went fast.
Finish Carpentry TV i’d like to see a video on how you hang interior doors. Thanks
Thanks for this video.
Thank you for opening the door. I’m an artist and was thinking 🤔 about using a hallow door for a project..
I am always impressed with the weight of a solid door, the sound they make when closed and how they feel as you swing them open. I haven't thought this through but what if holes were drilled at the top and sides and the door was filled with sand? It would provide weight and sound proofing and no cancerous fumes from spray foam filled alternatives. If the door suffered a hole, it might be quite a mess but I was hoping to get thoughts from others. Please go easy, I did say I haven't thought this through yet.
If it was completely filled with sand the door would be too heavy.
I imagine the screws wouldn’t hold at the hinge points in these kind of doors beyond a certain weight.
Thanks for the visual. I wanted to cut one of my doors to fit some shelves in my closet
I have three hollow doors that slide side to side to get into the closet. The doors are hollow
and I wanted to know whats inside the doors to cut the sides of it like 1/2 inch each so I can fit my shelves
Once upon a time, I worked at a yard that had a door & window shop. That stuff you refer to as 'melamine' is actually just either particle board or OSB, and is there because hinge and strike screws won't 'bite' into MDF. 'Melamine' is actually a laminate, but commonly refers to hardboard ('Masonite') with veneer grade laminate (1/32" Melamine) applied. Center spacers in hollow-core doors are corrugated cardboard 'honeycomb' to add some rigidity. Skins are typically either 1/8" (more or less, these days) lauan mahogany or (thinner than 1/8") vinyl. Not bad looking, but not awfully durable, either way.
Joe T.....No doubt, there are ways to get it to work! In fact, speaker enclosures are a great place to use MDF! In applications where it would be subjected to constant and significant lateral stress (e.g. the weight of the door, multiplied by constantly pulling on hinges while opening/closing), it would fail pretty quickly, though. It's simply a question of choosing the best material for an application. Notice that, in the video, you can see MDF used in the 'molded' parts of the door. Edge blocks, though, are always either solid wood or particle board/OSB......in my experience anyway. :-)
I was just about to mention that what he’s referring to as “melamine” is not actually melamine but clearly particle board.
Melamine yes it's actually what plates were made out of in the 40s and 50s like dinner planks cafeteria plates those green ones
You didn’t notice that the latch side was in fact the hinge side (had the slim spine of wood inside) as the lock block was used for the hinge side by mistake. That large piece of particle block was the lock block.
Thank you! Very helpful for designing a steam board meant to hang on the door. I know where to anchor it now!
If you have a "mobile home" or "modular" the cabinets are built in place from scraps also, eye opening experience when we tried to re purpose our kitchen.
Did you look where the door knob is installed? I think there is a thick block there as well to prevent the door from smushing down when the hardware is installed..
I'm glad you posted this because I need to a new 20" 6-panel (really 3-panel) door for my kitchen pantry. Home Depot wants $350 to make a custom one because it isn't a standard size. A 36" door, however, will be perfect if I rip it correctly and fill in the gap. Now I know what's inside so I don't waste a $80 door.
Congratulations on your family...good to hear. Richard, are you planning to upload the rest of the coffered ceiling project from last year?
There was a time when kicking down a door would require braking the jamb. Nowadays, you're foot goes right through it!
No explanation for the recent lack of uploads required, Richard. We DFW Crown groupies greatly appreciate whatever and whenever you post. Sorry to hear about your rough patch but glad that it's behind you and wife and new baby are doing well. I sure wish you were my neighbor :-)
Many thanks! Excellent video and detailed explanation of material used in construction of a hollow core door.
Would it be foolish of me to try to install a small passive air vent near the base of such a door?
I seen your vid about how you trim hard to get too windows all in one peice. Do you have a vid about how you do just a typical window? Is it jam then casing or do all your windows get jam an casing before installing them?
La verdad te admiro mucho trabajas muy bien
Dude this is so helpful. Thank you! I just wish you had taken a total shot of the door from afar for a single view at some point during a video.
I agree, I also wish he would have kept the door in one whole piece.
Melamine is the thin colored covering on a substrate, they even make dishes out of it. That wood your pointing out for the hinges is particle board/chipboard. I'm surprised they didn't put a strip of actual wood on the hinge side instead of that mdf chip board combo.
Thanks for this video.
Do you think you can foam fill these?
I've dealt with a lot of hinge screws that won't hold anymore. I use an anchor, hammer it into the old screw hole and put the screw back in.
I think that any solution have their advantages and disvantages.
When we promote it as a cheap door, directly we look for disvantages because the vantages are not published by the manufacturers, value vs cost is an important parameter and the way you offer any product will influence your costumer decision.
If we look at the body of Formula 1 car, read about the evolution and we cut it like the door, we will se basicly the same structure, too much air between skins, but it´s well known that is not cheap, and directly we look at the vantages because we were previously informed and we focus on the advantages of light weight structure in racing cars.
Of course not all materiales takes advantages in all kinds of engineered structures present in the market.
In my country, Venezuela, we made all the walls of our houses with clay bloks and mortar, and when we see the North American constructive method is normal to think that you have cardboard houses, that´s absolutly not true, you have many advantage with available material and enough skills to rise a house that resist your enviroment, we have our advantage, because specials skills are not necessary to pose blok over blok, any of them have their value/cost index.
Saludos
Gerardo
Thanks man I was in a discussion with someone about what material the top and bottom of the interior doors were made of I kept googling, but nothing
Masonite thx man
Hey chief, one of the panels of my hollow-core door is punched in. Is there an easy way to fix it without replacing the whole door? I was thinking of just cutting out the panel and then gingerly fixing it from behind and then replacing it. Any ibetter deas?
We put doors in our house called Safe and Sound. Very heavy 6 panel smooth finish same pattern as you just cut up. However the doors we got is just full of particle wood and around the door lock area some of that broke out and when fastening door handles we couldn’t screw to tight as the door skin just kept on going in until a crack started to appear. I never understand why the take really good lumber break it down into smaller pieces and the glue it back together.
My builder put all hollow core doors in my home too! I’m in the process of replacing them with solid doors. Thanks for the insight of these doors.
HC doors are the worst! I just finished a house where they cheaped out at the end. Started with fairly nice doors [solid particle board] but ended up with the cheesy hollow crap. Just barely a year old now, and some of the doors are already failing.
What kind of sawhorses are those and where did you get them?
something i started to wonder for a while now what happen if you fill those hollow door with sand ? will it damp the sound ? i would like to see that
Hey Richard. Sending my sympathy and condolences to you and your family. Hang in there bud. Take care.
Very good to know, you have a good channel. Time for a cold bottle of beer !
Melamine is the coating applied to shelves and countertops. It's the hard "plastic-like" surface. It's not the wood the shelves are made of. What you said was behind the wood edges on the door is just low-density fiber board.
Very surprising thing for me is this door is made in India. Most homes in India use solid wood doors. My home has Teakwood exterior doors and other solid wood interior doors and windows. Looks like everyone is cutting corners on quality these days. Totally agree durability is the most eco friendly and economical chois than filling landfills with cheap garbage.
I'm considering filling one of these CHEAP Hollow doors with INSULATION FOAM and using it as a Storm door.... Just wanted to get your thoughts on that...lol. Basically I adopted 2 CATS and need a way for them to get into the garage where the litter box is, and I can't Cut into the "Fire Door".... So right now I just leave my door open, with the rolling door closed.
Go with me here... working a jobsite for a year{ 3500 sq. ft. homes } with 8/0 solid core doors. 60 doors per unit and most go upstairs. UGG! To rebound from that on a condo job with H/C doors. Gotta love them...
How would you go about cutting such a door in two parts. Thinking of getting 2 of them and doing half paneling on the wall. If I can split such a door in two identical parts... Then I could do a whole room half panel bottom wall for extremely cheap. Anything is possible, but what would be the best way? So splitting the door on the sides into two identical pieces. Would be flimsy, but would have brandring in the back of it.
Building your own custom doors is probably a cheaper and better option especially if you know millwork.. me personally i like barn doors and I've built all of mine.. great video ❤
I wouldnt mind that for an inside door... absolutely not for an outside door... cool video thanks for sharing :))
At 2:33 at the latch side of the door, what’s the width of that mdf wood? Thanks
There is actually two types of hollow core doors. They make ones with finger joint pine sides instead of MDF. I prefer the finger joint pine in the northern climates where you have dry winter and humid summer. MDF swells a lot in the summer and will cause rubbing. And MDF like you said you only get one chance with the screws!
What kind of doors and manufacturers do you recommend?
If you want a privacy barrier, that door is fine. You can work out the internal structure by tapping, different parts will sound different.
I have been looking at DIY camper conversions, all that I have seen specify 19mm ply for a QB. I need a KS, not so wide but I need length. That kind of construction would be lighter, quieter, cheaper, and give improved fuel economy over the years.
I wanted to know how close to the edge I could use real screws and now I know. Thanx
Those are for closets maybe bathrooms, solid door for entry ways
I watched this because one of my hollow core doors has failed at the hinge. The MDF at the hinges is probably 1/4th of an inch thick with nothing behind it for the screws. It's amazing how cheap it is.
Thanks. I’m gonna shoot foam into a hollow core bedroom door to try and reduce noise. This helped me see where I have to drill the 4 holes.
I’m curious if you ended up doing this. I’d be concerned that expanding foam might pop the door apart, and that the foam might not do much, since it’s mass that blocks sound-but those concerns might be totally unfounded. If it worked that’d be a handy stopgap for crappy apartment doors.
@@jenbow88 I haven’t done it yet. It’s on the list.
I think they are basically laid out in 1/4s. I was going to drill 6 holes. 2 top, 2 bottom and 2 on the hinge side.
I was wondering if it would pop the laminate off myself. I think they are probably more sturdy than you would assume.
I live in an 1800 sq ft suburban house built in the 90’s and it has beautiful solid wood 6 panel doors downstairs and flat hallow core doors upstairs. All the doors are original too, the house came that way. I’ve made the mistake of getting mad and punching them it’s it made a hole that went half way through.
I’m pretty sure it’s wood pulp that they vacuum form over a positive mold, trim, wood grain and all.
Anyone know the name of the song at the beginning when he pulls up in the truck?
can i fill it up with foam to soundproof it better..?
Air and a thin cardboard honeycomb on edge. I've had to cut them short enough that I had to take the old bottom out, sand the skin off the bottom insert, take out the web far enough to reinsert the old bottom insert, and reglue it inside.
NIce vid as always, name of the song in the beginning anyone?
Premdor produce thousands of these doors every day. They use the Masonite door skin & stick it together with a few pieces of timber to make an ultra cheap door. Here in the U.K. those doors cost around $13. The old saying is very true, you pay for what you get.
I believe that block of melamine is for the door handle hardware and they have actually put the hinges on the wrong side. I may be mistaken as there could also be a block on the other side but thats how they are made in Australia. Usually our side rails are made from pine, not mdf but looks pretty much exactly how they're made here. Just thought you might be interested
Thomas I’d agree with that. Same here in the uk. Looks like handle was on wrong side
Even solid cores will be filled with mdf material.
Better solid cores have more real wood.
Advantage of the mdf solid cores is, they are more temperature and humidity stable. (Not water). Solid wood doors change dimensions with the seasons and may warp.
@FinishCarpentryTV I was wondering if you could help me out. I am looking to repair my interior apartment doors. They are hollow-core door. I have looked online for blueprint or DIY to make hollow core doors, I also checked UA-cam. I am unable to find any. Can you please or anyone help me out. Thank you
do they put MDF where the door knobs are supposed to go?
melamine is a shinly skin material, chipboard is the wood product used here.
It happens all the time/you speak the truth/some shaker doors are mdf but there solid right/i went with solid core roman smooth with poplar frames base a trim custom cut/and don't punch a solid core unless u want to brake a hand
Need to know what is on the handle end of the hollow door, as we want to put a longer cabinet handle, disappointed you cut that off and did not show it.
Did he show the bottom? I was hoping to see detail of the construction on the bottom vs. top.
me too! I need to add a doggie door and all I have is a hand file saw, lol.
very helfpul, thx. needed to know the best place to install a hanger for a robe.
What is the job of a modern internal door?
it does not need to withstand power
it does not need to withstand pressure or humidity
it does not need to do anything but to create a good sight barrier between two spaces - and for that purpose, this door does exactly what it is meant to do.
could it sound proof better - that would be an advantage, but even for that, the cardboard fill would do better than solid wood.
thank you for the interesting video
Has the job of not making the owner feel like he is living in a cheap piece of crap every time he opens or closes a door while paying 25-50% of their income in mortgage.
What song is that playing at the start?
I actually do like them doors a lot
Can you use slow foam insulation inside doors like this? I am trying to reduce noise from the other room next to me.
No Luisa , unfortunately you can't . Even an 1-3/8" thick interior solid core door would reduce that noise by 80 - 90 % . Foam insulation couldn't reach every little cavity in the door , and may cause the door to swell . Hollow core doors are not only inexpensive , they're also very cheap ( i.e. poor quality ) .
@@robertn2813 thank you for the reply!
@@luisahouseworks you're welcome . Stay safe .
Can anyone comment on the internal wooden frame? How (typically) "tall" is the bottom frame? Update....oops....just saw your note above about the life's issues that came up. Hope all is going well.
I love the way youtube is now trying to sell me one of these doors!
These doors are okay for closets but as room doors they suck one good breeze and it's "Slam bang" then when closed it keeps banging because it's still moving with the breeze
I just took a flat panel one apart. I got it for free. I can't find 1/8" plywood to repair my pop up camper. This will work for that.
Yea mdf isn't great to screw in and out of.. i agree you shouldn't really use them on a higher end house.. but if you ever just tear out all the wood to the point where you can use a screw just insert an anchor to fix it.. i usually drill a 3/16" hole, insert the anchor, then then screw in the new anchor screws carefully and it should hold.. if you ever tear up the anchor just use the 3/16" bit again and it will cleanly take out the anchor and it leaves it like new for the new anchor.. Great way to save money especially if your living in a house that you don't see yourself living in for the rest of your life..
I hate working with MDF you need a shaper or wood master you could make some bad ass trim designs on a machine like that.
Man that is some crap. They used to run a sliver of finger jointed pine by way of 'framing'. I think I might even refuse to hang a mdf door into an mdf jamb. The last house I did the contractor wanted to do all the trim in mdf, I was at least able to get the wet areas done with actual wood molding [finger jointed, but at least wood]. I went back last week to install something and saw a lot of damage to the mdf baseboards and door trim. Glad your lady and baby are OK! PS melamine is actually the colored coating that they put on the coarse kind of particle board inside that door. I call it chunk board, or chipboard. Crap, all.
I live in a mobile home, I'm sure that's how our doors are constructed. I tried to hang a ceiling fan the other day and discovered how badly our roof trusses are constructed. I couldn't even mount a retrofit brace system in there without making another hole in the ceiling and putting wood blocking in the trusses. What a pain.
Plz making video of this door