I guess I don't know what common is but... I sold building supplies in the
70's and the only doors that we had were wood. We also sold wood and faux wood paneling. Also melamine paneling. I would say that those things used to be common but they went the way of the wind.
As I said in other replies, I was wrong. When I looked at Lowes, I did not see a category for wood doors. They do in fact have them. Not a lot but they're there. I stand corrected.
Uh... No. As I said, I was wrong. They do not have a category for wood exterior doors at Lowes. And that led me to believe that they did not have them.
You are correct. I don't use google.
| I do stand corrected on this. When I looked again, Lowes does have a couple | of cheap wood doors listed but there is no category for wood exterior doors. |
You didn't distinguish between slabs and prehung. They may not have prehung, but any 1 3/4 slab should be exterior grade. They have those on the shelf. It sounds like that's what Vic Smith bought.
| I don't think 100 dollars is really high-end for wood sliding closet | doors, but HD couldn't even sell those. They marked the price down to | 20 dollars a set, and I bought one. Two years and I haven't opened the | box since before I bought it. :-)
I know that feeling. Things one can't afford not to buy, even if they're useless. At some point the price itself seems like a great bargain. :)
I remember one day being in Zayre's (a cheap dept store, now extinct) when
3rd brake lights came into fashion. They were selling them cheap for retrofitting old cars. A man behind me in line was holding 5 of them (the limit per customer) and was so delighted with the deal that he couldn't resist sharing his enthusiasm with me. What a deal! I asked with surprise if he actually had 5 cars to put the lights in. His face went blank.
whatever you use, you don't use it well
Hi, I think sun sets that direction.
Hi, Door to enter the garage from outside? If from inside isn't that fire code violation?
Only during certain times of the year and depending on where you are in AK.
Real pretty when the Northern Lights are in full dance mode.
Yeah. I know people who do stuff like that all the time!
I realize that hand held hair dryers have been around for some time. I saw an episode of Leave it to Beaver where Beaver was using one but... They didn't become popular until the 70's and then they were pretty expensive. Somewhere along the line, the price dropped to around $5 and now they have since gone up in price again as they changed the features to them although you can still get cheap ones. Anyway... When they were cheap, my dad couldn't believe the deal he got so he bought tons. He was giving them away to anyone and everyone that stopped by the house. Finally my friend (after being offered one umpteen times) told my dad that anyone could buy them for that price. And that was the end of that!
I am also reminded of countless couponers who get things for cheap or free just because they can. One the one episode of Extreme Couponing, the teen boy gets sanitary napkins announcing that he doesn't know what they are but it doesn't matter because they are free!
I didn't really look to see what they were because I am not interested. I just wanted to correct my error in saying that they didn't sell them.
What? The door from the inside made of wood would be a fire code violation? If so, I think we are violating!
No, I do need them. To replace the crummy bifold doors that the hall closet has. It's just that they're down on the list and the list is moving slowly.
I remember Zayre's.
Detached garage.
I spent a year at USCG LorSta Port Clarence, AK. We used to lay on our backs on the shore of the Bearing Sea and watch the lights dance for hours.
Yeah, but it's good for the rest of us to know why your imprression is so far off from Vic's, for example. And Mayayana explained it.
If this were an english usage group, I'd comment on the phrase "prehung door". It sounds like it's about the door, but the difference is really the door frame. Practical people like most of those here might not care about that, but some of the English usage folk find that sort of thing very interesting.
If it is a solid core wooden door, it is code.
It's not like Lowes is the only place that sells doors. Just for the hell of it I looked at their closest competitor, you probably have one right down the street from your Lowes: Home Depot
On the HD website they not only have a category for front wood doors, they have 323 products in that category. As others have said, local lumber companies will have boat loads of wood entry doors they will sell you. Many you'll have to order, but you can surely get virtually anything you want and are willing to pay for.
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