When building a home of distinction, one of the best ways to make an indelible first impression is with a wood entry door. Few architectural features signal taste and authenticity more than the natural beauty of wood.
Yet, as with any wood application, there’s always the lingering worry of callbacks and reputational damage over wood’s great enemy: water.
It’s a timeless conflict one Minnesota wood entry door manufacturer has solved.
“Wood doors are beautiful,” observes Steven Bayer of Bayer Built Woodworks. The family-owned and operated entry door manufacturer serves lumberyards and building supply centers throughout the upper Midwest.
“If the bottom of the door jamb is exposed to water, it’s subject to rot, warping, and cracking. Special-end coatings and hardwood species only delay the inevitable. PVC alternatives resist water, but the material’s thermal contraction and expansion means more fasteners are required to control jamb movement.”
Hybrid Solution
So how does a wood door manufacturer prevent warranty claims, callbacks, and disappointed distributors and home builders?
Bayer and his team bet years ago on a hybrid solution that’s worked out very well. So well, in fact, that all the company’s wood entry door systems come with a transferrable lifetime warranty. It’s bold stuff, especially for a door maker operating in one of the nation’s harshest climate zones.
“We Know What Works”
The hybrid solution Bayer’s company has settled on joins a bit of waterproof composite to the wood jamb. The result: Bayer’s wood jambs don’t absorb water, warp, crack, or rot. It’s smart building science that combines two surprisingly complementary elements into a holistic solution that has few equivalents. “We know what works,” Bayer humbly offers.
That certainty is supported by a variety of innovations that have demonstrated faultless entry door performance for the last 15 years:
- A finger-jointed composite jamb base eliminates any possible wood damage to moisture, treated or not.
- Works just like wood because … well, because it is wood. “It machines just like wood,” Bayer says.
- Finishes and paints as easily as wood with no special paint or application required.
- “We’ve all seen how long two-by-fours from the same tree tend to twist and turn. The jambs we spec are straight and true and stay that way,” Bayer says. “Plus, we get great screw retention between the sill and jamb’.”
The veteran door manufacturer singles out Endura’s FramerSaver door frame as their go-to solution. “When we developed our own line of entry systems, we specified only components we could trust. The folks we work with can’t afford callbacks. Neither can we. We’ve relied on Endura FrameSaver for a very long time.”
If you’ve specified Endura FrameSaver in the homes you build, you know what Bayer means. If you haven’t, this may be a good time to ask your contractors or local supplier about FrameSaver for your next project.
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