Attributes of Doors Manufactured by Hartford Building Products, LLC
All interior doors manufactured by Hartford Building Products, LLC , have a 10 year limited warranty. Most of our competitors manufacturing solid wood doors have one-year warranties. Unlike our competitors, our warranty is also transferable to someone else purchasing your home until the ten years are up.
All doors have ½" diameter hardwood dowels that are 7" long, manually inserted into door stiles and rails on both sides on top and bottom for extra strength.
Our standard raised panel doors are made to matching profiles to our doorstops. The ogee edge on the doorstop is the same as the ogee cut around the panels. On our flat panel doors with square edges, we have matching square stop.
Raised panels on our 1 3/8” doors have 13/16” thick panels. Our 1 ¾” thick interior doors have 1 1/8” thick panels.
All doors are manufactured at our own plant in Northeast Ohio. No parts or doors are imported. Lumber is also kiln-dried at our location to ensure a high quality product from start to finish.
All doors are machine sanded, with finish hand sanding.
Door stiles on both interior doors and matching bifolds have 1” hardwood cores. Over this is laminated either 3/8” or 3/16” solid wood pieces, depending upon whether 1 3/8” or 1 ¾” thick doors are made. This is much thicker than veneers, and can be sanded if you damage your door, unlike veneers, which can not be sanded, due to thickness of veneer. All other parts of the door are solid all the way through. Our laminated stiles are designed to be highly stable, and for this reason, our warpage rates are less than 1/10 of one percent of our total doors produced.
Doors can either be shipped as slabs (doors only) or pre-hung. No assembly will be required except for double doors, which will require only header to be reattached.
No particleboard, MDF, or plywood is used in our doors. Only hardwoods are used in our doors. Our jambs are all solid hardwood also, and are usually matching to the doors, unless you request otherwise.
Bifolds come standard with heavy-duty L.E. Johnson bifold hardware, with two types available, for different weight totals. Also we have available in stock, pocket door frame kits, bypass door hardware, multifold door hardware, and wall mounted sliding hardware for all our doors. All are heavy-duty commercial grade.
We have ten standard hinge finishes included in our pre-hanging, at no extra charge. Most of our competitors have just a few and charge extra for theses other finishes.
We have corner sections that we sell of each door type and wood, which are refundable, when sent back, regardless of whether or not doors are purchased.
Doors are available in all sizes, unlike imported doors, or high production domestic doors. Not only are our doors available in standard increments of 2” for widths, we can also custom make any size and height for someone. If you need a 27’’ wide door, we can make it. It will be made to width, not cut down. Height is also the same. If you need doors 93” high, instead of a standard 8-foot height (96”), we can do it.
We have been producing doors since 1984, and have the experience to produce a higher quality door than many of our competitors, and also the production capability to handle larger quantities of doors at one time. Our complex of buildings covers 22,000 square feet of production and storage, and we currently have 25 employees, which is smaller than large national companies, but larger than small one and two person shops, giving us the ability to do almost any size job, but not producing a mass market product.
If any doors are damaged in shipment by a trucking company, and you note it on the shipping documents, we will start production immediately on any replacement door(s), and we do not wait for a trucking company to reimburse us, before we start production on replacement doors. We try to package as well as possible, but on rare occasions, a shipment may be damaged, and we try to make the claim as easy as possible, and will absorb any cost not picked up by the trucking company.
Unlike many competitors, Hartford Building Products will warranty all doors that we make up to 42 inches wide. Many competitors will not warranty doors over 36 inches wide.