Help,
Good day to you all.
Although exterior wooden screen doors are common to all you cousins across the Pond. Here in England they aren’t, therefor can anyone please give me any advice or tips on the following so I can make and install one:- designs, metalwork, door buffers, springs, catches, locks, cat flaps, fabric material and fabric material fastening? I was intending to make one out of Teak or such like using M & T joints and perhaps from 3/4 inch (19mm) thick finished material. Any assistance or advice would be most gracefully appreciated. Thank you in anticipation.
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The joinery methods you would use can be the same as any other door, but 3/4 inch stock is too flimsy. Go with at least 1-1/4 inch material.
Taz-
Yes, I noticed on my first trip to London that there were no screen doors or window screens. I kept on expecting a bird to fly in our hotel room....
Anyhow, stock thickness is normally 1 1/16". This compliments the exterior door and window trim( brick mould) that is commonly used. The last door I made I used 2 3/4" wide stiles, top rail and lock rail. Bottom rail was 3 3/4". My joints were loose tenon joinery, so your M&T joints are more than sufficient.
Screen cloth available here is fiberglass, steel, and aluminum. I used aluminum- more durable than fiberglass and doesn't rust. Typically the screen cloth is stapled into a 3/4" x 1/4" rabbet milled into outside face of openings. Then a screen mould (3/4x1/4") is tacked onto screen fabric in the rabbet. Hope this is of some help.
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