Episode 004 1995 - 96 Season

| Fireplace Installation | Steel Framing | Cutting Board | Fabrics | Entry Doors | Lawn Sprinkler Repair | How Do I Qualify? | |

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Entry Doors

Al Carrell : Now a lot of folks think that a door is just a door, but when it comes to entry doors for your new house, it's really a very important consideration.

Michael Holigan : First thing to ask the builder is, is the door insulated? Now this is a foam core door. You can seem the foam right here. We have metal on the outside. We also have metal on the inside for security, but it is insulated. We're not going to insulate the whole house and not do the door. And you can also see that there's two holes. One is for a handle and one is for a dead bolt. Make sure that you have that.

A.C.: Now since this is a pre-hung door, it already has the weather stripping in place, which means when the door is closed, it's going to compress against this weather stripping and it's going to be airtight, no air infiltration. One thing that you have to keep in mind is though, when the painters come in they're going to pop this out to get it out of the way. You want to be sure that they put it back in when they're through painting. Another thing that people wonder about, and that is what kind of weather stripping do you put on the bottom of a door. Well this one already has the weather stripping on the bottom of it that ties into the threshold down here.

M.H.: This is your threshold right here. And in front of the threshold you're always going to see a rubber seal. Now this is to prevent water from going in underneath the threshold, but unfortunately with high winds a lot of times water can seep below the threshold and come out inside your house. So this is one of the new style doors. This is called a weep system. Below this threshold there are holes in there. Now if any water ever gets past this piece of rubber, it'll go below the threshold. It hits those weep holes and it comes back out in channels along the front of the door.

A.C.: And, if you have 2x6 walls, which we certainly hope you're going to do, then you'd just have this little extension channel that fits on there. This slides right in place, so it's still taken care of.

Episode 004 1995 - 96 Season

| Fireplace Installation | Steel Framing | Cutting Board | Fabrics | Entry Doors | Lawn Sprinkler Repair | How Do I Qualify? | |

To order a Video Tape, call 1-800-TO-BUILD and ask for Episode #004.