Importance of Solid Wood Panel Doors

Panels are usually built as a decorative feature in home as well as office furniture. A ‘floating’ panel is usually captured within a tough frame. The panel will not remain stationary and will keep floating on the frame to combat the seasonal expansion and contraction of the wood. In general, the door is constructed of horizontal and vertical solid wood pieces with the endgrains exposed.

The vertical as well as horizontal members are referred to as stiles and rails. A five piece door house extra panels into one or more sections which are further divided into pieces known as mid rails and mid stiles. To allow for movement of the panel inside the frame the size of the panel should be smaller than the frame. To centre the panel in the frame and control seasonal movement, elastic is placed between the edge of the panel and the frame. Generally, rubber is used for this purpose.

The Solid Wood Doors can have either flat or raised panels. A flat panel has its face flushed being the front of the groove in the frame which gives an inset visual aspect to panels especially those made from man-made materials such as tongue or groove planks. If the hardwood-veneer plywood material will be used than the solid wood rails and stiles will get stained and finished.

In the case of raised panels, if the panel has profile cut through its edge then the panel surface is said to be flushed with the frame. Some of the very popular profiles are ogee, chamfer, scoop or cove. There are two common methods through which a panel can be raised, that is, coving on the tablesaw, by using panel raising cutter either through wood router and spindle moulder.

Wire Mesh Doors

A ‘mesh’ basically means a barrier of interconnected wires made of metal, fibre and ductile material. It is just like a web or a net. A mesh can be in the form of a wire, metal, clothing, skin graft or fibreglass.

A wire mesh is used to shield against radio frequency radiation, to guard secure areas and produce park benches as well as waste baskets. If we talk about the size and permeability of different mesh size are used for different purposes. Some are used to strain pasta and vegetables while the others are used for landscaping and gardening applications.

If the wire mesh needs to be welded then concrete is poured over the laid down mesh. Because of the high tensile strength of concrete, once it sets, it will assist in the stabilization of the concrete.

The Wire Mesh Door Manufacturers often construct them this way. They are interwoven with the wooden planks and serve the purpose of both protection and ventilation. It is generally used in various types of kitchens and its breathability is often used for entertainment and custom built-in creations such that it is placed on to the shelf in such a manner that it will not get over-heated.

If an additional feature further needs to be added then a fabric needs to be kept under that wire mesh that further allows air ventilation through the framed opening without the visual access of what is kept behind the door. There are three different kinds of crimping methods that are used to create wire mesh. These are:

Single crimp – The wire is bent back and forth and woven into each crimp in each direction.

Double crimp – Being very similar to single crimp, the wires are hand woven into every third crimp forming the mesh.

Press crimp – The wires are machine pressed in alternating directions that forms a depression to hold the hand woven wires in place.

The wires which are generally used to form the mesh are round wire, square wire, flat wire and reeded wire. Generally, the square and rectangular patterns are used to form a wire mesh. The mesh can be coated for a better finish and long life. These four coatings are Satin steel  V2, Antique Brass, Oil Rubbed Bronze and Stainless Steel.

The standard size for a wire mesh grill patterns is 20” × 48” available to be cut into customized shapes and sizes.

Wooden Doors: Strenthening the security of every home

What people don’t do to lead a safe and secured life? They install Burglar alarms, fire alarm, microchips to track the lost items and much more…But the prime security starts with the doors of the house. They safe-conduct the direct entry and exit of any unwanted and anti-social being and satisfy the people living in the house with a sense of security.

There are many varieties available as a resource for doors. The doors can be wooden, fiberglass or made up of steel. However, for Wooden Doors, the frame can be hardwood or softwood. The wooden doors help in temperature regulation of the home by controlling the entry and exit of air in the house. The maintenance cost for wooden doors is also not much.

However, external doors are as important as entry doors. They can be classified as plain timber doors and external fire doors. The traditional designs need to be kept separate from the modern designs.

For sustainable wooden doors manufacturing, a strong wooden base needs to be selected. For manufacturing that wooden base, the manufacturing requirements are:
To manufacture Plywood, the manufacturing lines need to have feeding and sorting systems, patching, gluing, press lines, trimming and sanding lines, panel reparation lines, panel coating lines and packaging lines.

When it comes to laminate panels, the lines need to have stacking systems for paper impregnation, kraft paper collation, lay-up & press lines, thin laminate squaring & sanding, compact squaring & trimming, post-forming, packaging, picking & storage.

For a three-layer board & solid-wood, layer-preparation is very important along with lay-up lines. The line also requires press lines, panel reparation lines, square, trimming and panel jointing lines, panel coating and packaging lines.

In light-board and sandwich panels, the frame assembly lines are installed along with board-on frame and stiles lay-up lines in addition to honey-comb lay-up lines, insulating and particle-light lay-up lines ending with press lines and packaging lines.

For particle-board, panel coating & coating what is required is Raw board calibrating lines, short-cycle melamine press lines, panel laminating lines, thin laminate & veneer facing press lines, painting & lacquering and packaging lines.

All these assemblies can be used for door manufacturing.

After manufacturing what is important is the varnish and finishing of the doors. Apart from its regular functioning of protection and safety of the wooden material, they also imparts aesthetics to the doors and make them suitable for any place, it might be a grand compartment or a small household. When the entire varnishing along with painting and coating gets finished, it then comes to the usage of the doors where they need to be placed.

While placement, the door can be attached to the top of:

Any solid opaque block
Upside-down slab or stairs
Slime block, hopper or downward-facing piston

However, by default, the door’s left and right sides should be assigned to hinge and handle of the door respectively.

An indispensable resource for Home furniture

Wooden furniture has always been the charm and stunner of the house considered to generate economical and durable wooden furniture. Any other material required for furniture making is either expensive or non-suitable to the households of middle class or lower class family. However, what creates the first impression is the entry door of the house. It is also true that wooden doors can be the universal choice as entry doors for big as well as small houses.

However, the quality of the furniture relies on the quality of the wood that is used to create the doors and what decides the quality in woods is the number of growth rings that are visible at the end of the wooden log. Apart from this, there are many imperfections that are visible in the log of wood to be used for making the wooden doors. Such imperfections are referred to as ‘knots’. It’s a rough circular solid around which the remaining wood flows in the form of the grain.

Although Heartwood and Sapwood are the two typical types of wood that are available for furniture designing but sapwood is considered to be comparatively weak in comparison to Heartwood in terms of hardness, strength and toughness from the same log.

Colour also adds to the aesthetics of the furnishings particularly Wooden Doors. The colour and sheen are either imparted through paints and coatings or the wood is subjected to certain organisms such as rot-producing fungi that imparts ‘natural colour’ thus diagnosing the problem of aesthetics required in the furniture decoration.

Apart from the above facets, there are lot of other factors that are influencing the quality of wood and hence, the quality of wooden doors. These are water contents in the cell walls, protoplasm of plant cells, cell cavities and spaces.

Once the type of wood is finalized with the furniture maker as per its quality and economics, now is the time to decide on the style and designs of the wooden doors as not only the entry doors but the connecting as well as exterior doors are also equally important to be designed as after entering the house anyone will check for the elegancy maintained inside the house.

Selection process for wooden doors is mainly based on five factors: size, material, price, style, configuration and brand. It all depends on the weightage that the customer gives to each factor.

After everything gets finalized, it comes to the time by which the wood doors will get manufactured. It is the most crucial criteria basis which the manufacturers compete with each other and create ‘brand’ for themselves.

After all, we all love something extra! The dealer who will offer certain accessories along with the mainstream doors, will finally win the challenge.