Caring For Your Interior Doors
Door manufacturers and suppliers keep doors in tip-top condition by having excellent storage facilities. Your supplier will tell you that you need to replicate these conditions as far as possible before actually hanging the Interior Doors. Once you’ve understood how to care for your door before installation, you’ll realise that they shouldn’t be delivered too far in advance.British standards require doors to be made from wood which has a 10% – 19% moisture content. To keep the moisture content at this level, it’s best if you can reproduce the factory storage conditions. The life of your doors may be affected by poor storage, and so this is an essential part of planning.This isn’t as difficult as it might seem and discussion with your supplier when you order should make everything clear.On delivery, move these bulky pieces of “furniture” carefully into their planned stockage position. Have help on hand from at least one other person when carrying them as they are hard to manipulate and damage may occur if you don’t have someone to share the task.To store doors before fitting, you’ll need a flat surface (usually a floor) and bearers you can place under each door. Place at least three bearers under each door including the one at the bottom of the stack. Add each one carefully to the stack without exerting any uneven pressure. Never stack doors on their ends or sides.If a door has built in furniture or cills, take this into consideration when choosing the size of bearers to insert. This is necessary to avoid these items damaging other doors.
