New engineered door out of shape

^woody^ · 13 Sep 2021

I've got a new engineered timber external door which I'm prepping (several coats) before hanging and the bottom rail seems to have shifted sideways!

It's mortice and tenon, and this is contrary to the whole purpose of an engineered door.

I can plane the closing edge and live with the gap on the hanging edge, but I wondered why this has occurred within a couple of weeks of delivery, and whether it will shift back after I've planned it.

The door was given a coat straight after unwrapping and is being kept outside but undercover to acclimbatise it.

Swwils · 13 Sep 2021

I rekkon that door has at some point got very wet, been brought inside and dried quickly.

That or it was very poorly seasoned wood, but I think that's unlikely from a good door manufacturer.

^woody^ · 13 Sep 2021

Fresh out the factory, wrapped !

Swwils · 13 Sep 2021

Embrace the wabi-sabi

Notch7 · 13 Sep 2021

Swwils said:
Embrace the wabi-sabi

I shall try that with my next client when they start muttering about “snagging”

^woody^ · 13 Sep 2021

Hai

Planed now, and it better not move for the next 20 years.

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