Engineered Doors

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Hi, can you guys advise please, I purchased seven oak veneered doors from a builders merchants and assumed( because I didnt see instructions otherwise) that I didnt have to have hinges on a particular side however when I tried to hang the doors I realised that the hinge screws wouldnt bite into the wood. I initialy thought that I had put hinges on wrong side however having drilled several test holes it appears that there is no hinge or lock side in fact there is an 8mm capping of oak around circumferance of door and other than this it is just the filling of a kind of large loose chipboard and this appears to soft for a screw to bite into surely the door is not meant to hang on 8mm of hardwood? please help Regards
 
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most doors that require a certain side to be hinged or locked will have an arrow on the top of door saying lock and point to the side the lock should be in.
 
Thanks for your reply, I agree, and this is what I find confusing there appears to be no right side as these doors havent been reinforced on either the hinge or lock side, it also states that the 8mm lipping can be reduced by as much as 3mm by planing to facilitate fitting, so if I also reduce this by a further 3mm being the thickness of the hinge I could be in theory left with a thickness of 2mm of hardwood for the hinge screws to bite and given that the screws supplied have a bare part of the shank it doesnt seem correct. It seems almost inconcievable that they would have made such a schoolboy error in the manufacture of these doors so am I missing something obvious, as I dont want to look a complete fool in front of the tradesman when I try and return the doors back to the builders merchants for being faulty.
 
I suggest you hang one and see what happens if it don't hold then take back or us longer screws of a thicker gauge to put hinges on. I have hung doors where i thought the screws wouldnt hold but they did n
 
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