Over the 35 years I’ve been doing carpentry and cabinetry, I’ve kept getting the same question from quite a few of my customers asking where they could get a top quality wooden screen door with an “old fashioned” look. We tried the screen doors sold by local lumberyards and were disappointed by the level of quality. We tried screen doors marketed over the internet and were disappointed with the high price and the “average” quality of the doors. Well, that only left one thing to do. Somehow I had to figure out a way to handcraft a quality screen door at a reasonable price. After a lot of hard work and experimentation I’ve finally accomplished just that. In my opinion, my screen doors are the highest quality, most reasonably priced doors you could ever buy.  If you doubt that, just jump on the internet and see the prices other companies are charging.

To begin with, my doors are built from start to finish by just one guy, and that guy is me. This allows me to keep an eye on every single aspect of the construction. While other mass production operations simply glue the doors together or join the parts together with small wooden “biscuit plates”, my door components are all joined together with a series of 2” dowel pins. It’s a little more time consuming to do it that way, but there’s just no substitute for the quality and strength of a dowel pin and glue. Each door contains at least 16 dowel pins for strength. It’s not my goal to give you a cheap door, but instead to give you a door at a reasonable price that lasts for years and years. If you’re looking for “cheap” you need to visit your nearest discount store and send your money to China.

All of my doors are built and sized to fit into the standard size openings of your typical “pre hung” entry doors in both 32” and 36” widths.  If you have an odd sized opening, I can accommodate that size for an additional charge. All of my doors are sold with no finish on the wood. This allows you to choose your own color schemes or staining preferences.  If you’d like to purchase a door totally finished with either paint or stain, I can do that for you at an additional cost.  One of the best features of my doors is that not only is it a screen door, it’s also a storm door!  Each door comes with a black aluminum (for security) screen insert that can be removed and substituted with glass for the colder months. I do not include the glass insert with the door because most customers have an energy efficient entry door and just use the screen door for ventilation in spring and fall, and because of the greatly increased shipping charges and chance of breakage with the glass insert.  Any glass store in your area will be able to make you a (safety) glass panel insert.  All of my doors should be installed with 2 door closers, one at the top and one at the bottom. I don’t include these because I don’t know if you want black or white or aluminum or whatever. You can pick up what suits you at Menard’s or Home Depot at a lesser cost than I can provide them to you. All of my doors are hung in your opening by using what are called “face hinges.” In other words, you don’t need to mortise the hinges. Simply install 3 hinges on the face of the door (top, center, bottom) and stick it into your door opening and mark with a pencil where the screw holes are on the other side of the hinge on the door frame. I don’t include hinges or door handle hardware because there are about a thousand different styles available. For hardware, I would recommend going to rocklers.com. They are a company that provides “restoration” hardware and have tons of really unique door hardware.

Because this venture of mine is in the early stages, at this time I can only provide you with three examples of what I have done so far. Now it’s up to you to help me expand on my designs. By looking at the photos, you can see the simple design elements I use in my doors. Customize your own door design using these elements and I will quote you a price for building whatever you want. Together, we can get this whole concept off the ground. After all, you know what they say, “Where there’s a will, there’s a relative.”

Later, Tom

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