When You Order A Pre Hung Door With Hardware Etc. Everything You Order Comes Fully Installed And Finished.
The photos shown in this section are designed to help you understand each piece of necessary hardware and its function in relation to its design elements.
<< Shown Here: Rabbeted Portal Door Stop With Heavy Duty Weather Seal
this type of stop is rabbeted by grooving or cutting a dato or cerf cut from the solid piece timber the door slab is made from. This method of building and sealing this portal door will never change over time and insures a perfect seal every time.
Shown Here: Portal Speak Easy Hand Carved
This portal door is hand cut directly out of your 3" or 4" thick solid door slab, ensuring perfect grain matching and a tight fit. There are no glued up sections on this portal door. It is as you see it hand carved from the solid door blade. the carved areas were left thicker when this door was joined up to make the door slab or blade. Then our master carvers removed this material with chisel and expertise to create this relief. No parts of this door are glued on with the exception of the internal shelf. However this shelf is pegged and doweled and tenon joined in to the solid structure of this door. This is a good example of the difference between true investment quality and semi- production doors or full production doors. This door will stand the test of time.
Included are two hand forged iron hinges and slide bolt lock all hand patina finished.

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Shown Here: Close up of portal door thumb turn and hand forged hinges.
This hardware insures a perfect seal when you lock your portal door. This heavy duty dead bolt lock also insures security.

Most Door Manufacturers Design With Two Primary Things In Mind.
Keeping Their Profits High And How Well Each Piece Will Fit In The Shipping Box
Pre hung to many manufacturers can mean you or your builder will assemble your new door on site. Most hardware is shipped some assembly required. Also with many manufacturers In order to further cut labor cost they choose to use straight cut lumber and create this stop by simply stacking one board on top of another board and clueing, stapling, or nailing them together to form the door stop. Most carved designs offered in the general market are glued on or simple machine carved neither of which is investment quality.
it Is Proven Veneers And Glued On Elements On Exterior Doors Never Hold Up Over Time.
This Door Hardware Should Not Be Confused With Ordinary Hardware Normally Found On Most Production Doors Or Semi- Customs
This hardware has been specifically chosen to accommodate these ultimate custom doors and gates.
All Working Door Hardware Is Patina Color Matched To Your Decorative Hardware.