Hello all,
I haven’t seem much information on entry door construction, except that haunched tenons will help keep them flat, and the principles are the same as for cabinets, scaled up in size.
I do see a lot missing in such blanket statements, given building codes, climate considerations (impacting stability and home insulation).
Are there any books, websites or articles you can recommend that cover door construction in detail, including window selection and glazing, insulation, hardware for a variety of looks and designs?
For example, some doors aren’t a frame-and-panel construction. Some doors have large steel rivets.
Are door builders part of a secret society? 🙂
Thank you,
Phil
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There are a bunch of articles in Fine Homebuilding on making entry doors. I'd start there.
A haunches isn't for keeping doors flat. The tenon is plenty long enough for that. In traditional door making before power tools, through grooves on stiles were far easier to plow than making stopped grooves. Stopped grooves were time consuming with hand tools. They are more problematic than through grooves with power tools, too.
The haunches simply fill the space at the ends of the grooves, nothing more.
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