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General Information on Raised panel doors
 | Specialty Woodworks warrants all doors to be within a size tolerance of
+/- 3/64 of inch |
| All doors 23"W and 46"H or smaller will have an allowable warpage
tolerance of 1/8" & all doors over that size will have a 1/4" warpage
tolerance. |
| All unfinished door will be ready for finishing. I do recommend a light
sanding to remove any scuff marks do to shipping. |
| All Rails & Styles are 2 1/4"wide. |
| All doors shipped UPS ground. (local orders can be delivered) |
| Orders can not be cancelled once on the production floor. |
| If You are ordering to be painted MDF is the best choice for this. (you
will need to prime doors first) MDF panels are raised 1/8 of an inch. |
| All doors are made from 3/4" stock. |
| All shipped doors will be Kraft paper & foam wrapped. (typically 5% of
order) |
Door Measurements:
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Note: if you are replacing existing doors and keeping your same
cabinet boxes, and if your hinge mounting method is going to be the same as
you have now, measure the doors you have now and compare them to the cabinet
opening sizes. Your task may become much simpler. Keep notes for yourself of
which sizes go on which openings.
The single most important thing about measuring for doors is: you
are ordering EXACT door Do not
order by the size of your opening. Inset applications are rare.
This will be discussed further in a moment. There is also a measurement
example toward the bottom of this page.
Below are Quality Doors recommendations for dimension allowances. A
different amount may be needed where a special fit is required.
| For edge profiles 6,7,13,17,24 and 33 are best left
to somebody comfortable with measuring cabinet doors. Profile 6 for
example has a raised molding and may rub against another door if to close.
(as would most likely be the case in a frameless cabinet. |
| For all other edge profiles, add 1" to opening
height and width. (This is a general rule of thumb only) |
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| Why?
The main reason is, if your door is the size of your opening, it will swing
into your cabinet and look crooked. You want your doors to stop at the face
of the cabinets. Why am I adding 1" in most cases? Euro box
cabinet construction is generally constructed of 5/8" thick Melamine board.
Older cabinetry may have thicker walls. When you add an inch to your opening
size, that leaves an overlap (common term is overlay) of ½" on all four
faces. You are hiding a half inch lip all the way around the cabinet and
allowing 1/8" to show. This is commonly known as full overlay.
For Face Frame cabinets, your door will extend ½" past the opening on all
four sides. Then you can use a face frame concealed hinge or one of the many
decorative popular choices in semi-concealed hinges.
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cup hinges are made by dozens of manufacturers and carry many degrees of
opening and overlay choices. Consideration should be given to your planned
mounting method before sizing your doors.
Why? Okay, here's the scenario. We just said full overlay is
approx. ½" of the 5/8" siding material being covered. In some cases, you
will need a half overlay hinge. Thus ½" of your cabinet wall is not covered,
a 5/8" panel may have two doors hinged to it back to back. How could each
overlay a ½"? It won't work. So you could move that door away from the
direct center of the panel edge and achieve half overlay (either using a
larger mounting plate or a half overlay hinge). So you moved to doors in
opposite directions of each other on a cabinet bank that has 4 doors. Now
your outside pair of doors are banging in to your inside pair. Your inside
pair of doors actually should have been
made less wide. Same height
is correct, but the width should be about 3/8" less. European hinges measure
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is not meant to be confusing, but consideration should be given to mounting
methods. In face frame applications that are full overlay, this problem
generally does not arise.
Face frame distance between the top of your door and the bottom of
your drawer front: you have a little play here. Your drawer fronts
should still measure 1" wider and higher than your opening. Note where
filler strips may be needed to accommodate dishwasher door swings and
protrusions.
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inset applications (or flush as sometimes called). Many armoires and
entertainment centers have inset doors. The doors are mounted inside the
cabinet walls, not in front of them. In this case, you may want your door to
be 1/8" less in height and width, giving you 1/16" clearance on all four
sides.
But what if the armoire or entertainment center isn't completely
square? Then you may have a problem closing your doors. Your might want
your door to be 1/4" less in height in width, giving an 1/8" gap on all four
sides (sounds wiser, doesn't it). What about a pair of doors closing
toward each other? Taking your overall opening, dividing by two and
subtracting a 1/4" from each door is going to leave a big gap between them.
Now we're thinking maybe taking 3/16" off the width measurement and that
1/4" off the height. What will that do?
Example:
overall width opening is 32" and the height opening is 40". Let's make the
height of our doors 39-3/4", gives 1/8" top and bottom gap. Now for the
width, we want that 1/8" on the left and the right and 1/8" between the
doors in the middle so they don't pinch. 32" minus 1/8" three times is
31-5/8". Cut that in 2 because we have two doors, and our door widths are
15-13/16".
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common feature of armoires and entertainment centers is pocketing door
mechanisms or flipper doors. Pocketing doors are most always inset
applications. They have to be to fit inside the opening. Yet some pocket
doors are overlay doors. The overlay will be on the cabinet side walls and
the special hinge will swing the door so it can retract inside the cabinet.
The overlay is not on the top and bottom walls of the cabinet box or else
the door could not fit inside the cabinet. Overlay pocketing doors require
more explanation than what will be given here. Our only recommendation is
to purchase the pocketing door hardware first and follow the directions for
it.
Overlay or
Inset — what's the difference?
Here's something to consider when selecting hinges
Look at your cabinet design before selecting hinges. On Eurostyle
cabinets, hinges are attached directly to the cabinet side. This gives
you the option of fully overlaying, half overlaying or insetting the
door within the opening, as shown below.
Overlay applications
If you decide to use an overlay cabinet design, select full overlay
hinges for the ends and half overlay hinges in the middle of a row of
cabinets.
Inset applications
Inset doors are recessed into the cabinet carcass to create a completely
flush, clean-lined look.
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Clip-On
 Blum's
Clip-On feature allows you to install and remove the door without
removing the hardware.
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How many hinges and how much adjustability?
 Use
the chart to determine how many hinges you'll need for the height and
weight of your door.
A door
that is 43'' high and weighs 14 lbs. requires three hinges. If your door
is only 24'' high but weighs 14 lbs., go with three hinges for maximum
support and stability.
Use on 5/8'' - 3/4'' doors unless otherwise noted.
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