Door Design

[Lbob131]

I've been asked to make an outside door  for a home.
The  existing door  is frame and panel  40mm thick and  the client has noticed  condensation  will  gather on  the  panels  machined  outer edges.
Due to them being thinner  I think.

Does anyone  know  any other  concepts  on door design  that could  avoid this  condensation?
I think some off  the manufactured doors  are engineered  "solid"  with laminated layers  glued and pressed  together  in  huge  machines.  Hence they  have stability  to prevent movement!


Between  0.35  and  0.51  seconds  it shows a few doors  with  what looks like  a "plank" design inside  a frame.

How is movement  catered  for? 

 

[Lbob131]

Just finished gluing it up this evening...

Basically  2" x "6  frame  with  18  large  140mm  dominoes  holding it together.
Then 1/2"  ply  sandwiched between t&g  mahogany  glued and nailed.
The outer  leaf being tenoned  into the frame.

 

[jmbfestool]

LoL no one had replayed but u already started making the door.

 

[Lbob131]

Yes. The devil hates a coward.  ;D
My hardwood supplier  makes doors  and I had a  look  at  some of their designs  in the  showroom.
Would really  liked  to  have  seen  one part way through the build though.

 

[Stone Message]

The door designs you referred us to in the video will need to have expansion and contraction of those T&G boards taken into account. Having now seen your post with the picture it seems you may know this already.

2x6 framing is a good start and using the long doms will keep the frame solid. I like the idea of a central field of ply glued within the frame and then some partly floating boards on either side for finish effect.

The more the moisture can be kept out the better.

Peter