60 inch exterior Dutch door
jyyanks
2 months ago
I’d like to replace the front door of our 120 year old Dutch Colonial. It was a former music school and the front door is huge - it’s a 60 inch, 2-3 inch thick single Dutch door. Any idea where I can buy a new one?
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Gretchen Young
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Comments (8)Arhsub- I don't think a 60 inch POCKET door at the main entry (or for any other exterior door) is a good idea at all. Pocket doors require that there be a hollow "pocket" for them to slide into when you open them. That means you cannot have any insulation in the pocket. You would have a door-sized uninsulated spot in your exterior wall. NOT a good idea! And, even if you live in an area with very moderate temperatures so that insulation is hardly necessary at all, how exactly would you securely lock an exterior pocket door? Yes, you can get little latch kits to "lock" interior pocket doors but they are so small that there is no way I'd be willing to trust such a latch for exterior security. Plus, pocket doors necessarily have a little bit of a gap between the face and back of the door and pocket framing. It has to be there for the door to slide freely. It's not an issue with interior doors but with exterior doors, that little gap between the exterior face of the door and the pocket framing would be an invitation for bugs, wasps, spiders and even small snakes to crawl into the pocket and then out the gap on the back side and into your house. Even worse, they might take residence IN the pocket. Imagine if you went on vacation of something and didn't use the door for a couple of weeks. You could come back to discover that mud daubers had built several nests inside the pocket that now blocke you from opening the door at all. Dry mud dauber nests are quite HARD! And, the only way to get access into the pocket to clean them out would be to take down the door entirely. Finally, a 60 inch pocket door requires twice that much space. 60 inches for the door itself and 60 inches for the pocket it slides into when open. If OP had 120 inches of space available, she could simply have her builder reframe a 72 inch wide opening and have double 36 inch wide doors. No, EXTERIOR pocket doors are NOT a good idea. I hope you're not planning such a thing yourself....See More60 inch French Door Pricing
Comments (9)The variation in pricing is truly amazing. At that standard size you can get doors for $300 - not Anderson but seem fine. Go up to $500 and you can get the blinds between the panes that you can open and close easily. These are for steel doors which are the cheapest. I've done a fair amount of research now and wood is definitely not the cheapest. Hopefully the exterior portion of yours is not just wood but covered with aluminum. Wood may look nice (if stained - if painted you can't really tell) but has the worst insulating capacity. Really most of the door is glass so it doesn't matter much. My comparative shopping is almost done. In the end HD- $550 and Lowes $650. So nearly double to get the 60 inch size. This is for steel with 15 lite mullions (external) and standard glass. Low E was about $80 more - mine gets a small amount of sun....See More60 inch hood
Comments (16)Gwlake~ What you are asking is actually a pure design question. It is a matter of proportion in the design. If you work with a scaled drawing that will help you see what will look best. Between the scale of the hood, range, cabinetry left and right. A 60 inch wide hood can certainly work, however the size of the elements will affect the proportion of the surrounding cabinetry. Since you are doing inset cabinets the doors will be approximately 13 1/2" wide each, which would look a skimpy compared to the scale of the hood with hood design you have drawn. The size of the door panels can make the wall cabinets look larger. (ie going with a single 24" door with say either 9 glass lites or with a vertical center stile) Also, iif you add a 6" decorative pull out column left and right of the 48" range, it will make the range as a focal point, seem wider, but would diminish the 36" wide base cabinets. There is always a trade off in design. You can do a 60" hood, but proportion is key to making it work. As an exercise, try sketching in a box hood with door panels above to see how it changes the relationship to the cabinetry....See MoreTraditional clapboard siding vs dutch lap?
Comments (29)I like "person of design talent". I personally know some architects I wouldn't trust to design a house for my dog. And the examples of poorly designed homes posted on this forum by actual architects are abundant. And "experienced" implies some sort of progression of skills. Many folks walk through the same door everyday for 20 years and call it "experience", their stagnant skillset notwithstanding. Again, we've seen abundant examples here of poorly designed homes on this forum by, at least according to the OP, their "experienced" designers. ETA: Sorry, hit the "post" button before I was done and then had lunch. Being from Denmark, you probably know much better than most of us what Scandinavian architecture is but to me, that house doesn't look like it. Also, I would worry about using vinyl in trying to pull off that vernacular. I know vinyl is cost effective but as in anything, if a desired goal can't be reached via a certain method, best to fall back and regroup with another approach....See More
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