Hollow Interior Doors

The one behind me is 1.19"

Now, how am I gonna explain that hole in the door to Mrs. 45 when she gets home?

Thank you very much.

Ray

Boy going back aways but I worked a a mill works Than pre-hung wood doors and I believe the sheeting was about .090 of and inch. So that leaves 1.195.

Thank you very much.

Ray

Hi Ray,

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BTW - why do you need to know the thickness of the HOLLOW part of the door? Just curious.

Mike

For all practical purposes it is 1 and 1/8 inch.

In my line of work I sometimes need to cut doors down and sometimes the door is cut so short that I cut off the bottom solid piece leaving the coragated cardboard and the two pieces of face veneer. If this is what You are planning then You need to make another solid piece to fit into the bottom. If you have a table saw you can make a piece out of a 2x4. Rip a piece 1 and 1/8 inch wide off the 2x4 and insert in bottom with a little wood glue on both sides, clamp and Your done. You may have to tweak the thickness a bit but this is a simple task.

oilcan13

In the housing blast in the 50's to 70's in Los Angeles area I ran a plant manufacturing those doors.

We use three to five truck and trailer loads of lumber a week making the "cores for those type doors. boards were random width/random length typically white fir or pine.

For that thickness door we used 1 1/8" thick lumber,called five quarter in the trade.... glued an 1/8" three ply "skin" (plywood) to each side made of the desired finish lumber ( mahogany/birch/gum/and later Masonite). These were all interior doors... exterior doors were...by code... 1 3/4" ....made from six quarter (1 1/2" thick boards) All lumber was kiln (oven) dried to permit use of water based glue.

Over the years we increased production from 200 doors a day to over 3000 a day/five days a week. There were four other plants in the LA area with like production capacity plus some smaller plants.

MR. GUY