Oh also, any info on good brands would be appreciated. Don't necessarily want to Cadillac the whole deal, just good, quality stuff. Thanks.

We purchased our solid wood doors at Lowe's and Home Depot. We painted them so I can't speak on doors that would be stained. Our front door was bought on-line for half of what we could have bought it locally. The link is below. It's Mahogany and we bought it unfinished. It was shipped like fine china and arrived in excellent condition. Two coats of stain and 3 of poly.

This was special order from Home Depot

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Interior doors, excuse the dingy look. It's not painted yet

Here is a link that might be useful: door

I found that our local lumber yards have better prices than the big box stores. For pre-hung, solid wood doors, the best local prices are at discount building suppliers. Our exterior french doors (Neuma) were ordered through a local building supply company. Our interior 8' knotty alder door slabs were purchased from a local door supplier - but they seemed a bit fly-by-nightish and didn't stay open long.

Brand wise, the only recommendation I have is for the Neuma french doors. We have a single 8' door, two sets of double 5-0 8' doors (one operable, one not), and a 7' triple unit, one operable door between two fixed doors. I paid $5700 for all these doors, which was about what one Pella or Anderson double french unit was quoted for. All of the doors open outward, which increased the wind rating. I did not get the impact resistant doors.

Here is a link that might be useful: Neuma Doors

All of our interior and exterior doors came from a local lumber yard. I would recommend you go in and actually see and touch them. We used Andersen and Castlegate for the exterior doors and Heritage on some of the interior. Sorry, I can't remember the manufacturer on the majority of the interior doors.

I wouldn't order a door or window from Lowes or Home Depot; it's generally seconds or worse.

Got ours through a smaller lumber yard (Lee Lumber), solid core interior doors (jeldwen? I think) and Thermatru fiberglass (much better to handle the extremes of my area) for exterior.

jasonmi, where do you get your information?

Exactly what is a seonds door? Does it have two holes for a door knob? What? They are all special ordered and name brand. So what are you talking about? Millions of homes across this country have doors from Lowe's and Home Depot. Do you think they are all seconds? LOL

This is good info, like I had hoped for. Had always heard your local lumber yard will often make the best deals. I'd like to be able to have a good idea what I want first, then hand it over to them.
Have seen some of the brands mentioned while searching the web (Jeld-wen, Neuma)You never know what you can find out here.

We ordered our exterior doors from ThermaTru through a local dealer...expensive but we felt worth it due to the energy-saving qualities. Interior doors (stain and paint-grade) are from Le Mieux.

Here is a link that might be useful: LeMieux doors

cs, keep an eye on the Lowe's ads. We caught a deal of buy 2, get one free. This sale was on all their solid wood doors. They are special order but come in a timely manner and are delivered promptly.

My DH does contacting work and uses the local lumber yard for large orders of wood and moulding, but when it came to the doors, they were a lot more expensive then Lowe's for the very same doors. So do compare prices in your area.

Hi Carterinms:

I'm considering to buy Neuma Fiberglass French Patio Door...and would you mind sharing what is your thought of Neuma's quality... have you ever had to call customer service?

How is their proprietary hardware doing..

Thanks in advance...