I am looking for composite doors. I have a client that believes these are light weight. Is there a manufacturer, preferably in the Middle Atlantic area? feedback please
Does the client mean composite core doors with a wood or HDPL veneer?
I believe his goal is lightweight…
- Mohawk Wood Stave Core Door @ app. 72lbs
- Mohawk Commercial Wood Hollow Core door @ app. 35lbs
- Permadoor 1.0 Premium Plus thermoplastic-faced composite door @ app 55- lbs a leaf depending on size of the door
this was not adequate info for him…
Mitch,
What exactly is meant by ‘composite door’.
There is a defined official term for “Structural Composite Lumber Core” (wood strands rather than particle core). But I don’t know that it is lighter in any significant amount.
There are a couple of different kinds of ‘reinforced’ hollow core doors, sometimes also referred to as ‘semi-solid’ and I have had some people refer to this as a composite door, though the term is not correctly used that way.
From the other comments, you might need to get a better definition of what he thinks he wants.
William
Mitch:
Are you thinking about a traffic door “Duralite” by Chase Durus
Neither AWI nor WDMA list weights for the different types of cores for doors, probably because they think it’s not an issue. If a door is hung correctly in a structure that supports it, does its weight matter? (oh, and that should have been HPDL)
a number of the composite doors are actually heavier because the composite is so dense. Take care that you get sufficient pull-out strength for the hardware, as this can be a problem with them.
Perhaps the owner is using composite in a more general sense, that is, something made from a combination of different materials, rather than from a single composite material. Special-Lite makes a door that uses an aluminum frame and a fiberglass face. I’m not sure of the weight, but it seems it would be lighter than wood doors or all-metal doors.