MASTERCRAFT doors are garbage! About five years ago my wife and I had an addition put onto our home. The builder used a MasterCraft exterior door for the entrance. It is wooden with a metal clad four panel and two lite. The lites have both completely seperated from the door allowing cold, heat, bees and any other possible invader to enter our home. I'm looking for a way to repair the door as I can't afford to replace it due to finances. If you have any ideas please share them with me. Disgusted esp if it's American-made. All 5 of our BRAND NEW mastercrap french doors leaked (seals broke on the inside)...so horribly... rain ran down into the drywall & foundation. We HATE mastercraft products. Menards does not address the situation and could care less...passes the buck to Midwest Manufacturing. I will NEVER buy Mastercraft again. Spread the word to save others pocketbooks! See Pic of water pouring in from the interior side of the door! How in the heck does that happen?! 1 2 3 NEXT
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Photo must be in JPG, GIF or PNG format and less than 5MB.Fall 2011, we purchased six interior 6-panel PRE-painted doors from Menard's. We paid $25 extra per door as I thought it would be worth my time not to have to paint the primed ones. After the first 3 were installed, we noticed how crappy the paint job was. These are cheaply constructed doors - pressed sawdust & glue, probably - we knew that from the get-go, but the paint job was simply atrocious. There was brown showing through along the edges of the panels, giving the doors a dingy appearance. The edges of the doors were brown and didn't even look like they'd seen paint. I describe them as having been "misted" with paint. My husband says someone walked them through a room with paint VAPOR. In June 2012, I wrote a letter to Menard's which the customer service person then forwarded to Midwest Manufacturing, telling them they needed to address this complaint. In late August, someone from MM responded asking for more information and photos.
After they received the photos and descriptions, their response to us was that since we had purchased the doors out of existing stock, they could be inspected before leaving the store. If the doors were damaged, they should be exchanged. And "in good faith" they were offering us a $50 in-store credit. My response to them was as follows: "You stated that the doors were purchased out of [available] stock and therefore could be inspected before leaving the store. Perhaps the Mishawaka store is an anomaly, but the lighting is quite dim where the doors are located, the doors are stored in a recessed, multi-level arrangement, and the stock person chooses the doors while you pull around back to have them loaded, in our case, stacked into our minivan. They are also wrapped in cardboard that obscures portions of the door. It is difficult to inspect them before they are loaded. At issue here is not damage, but quality control at your facility. Damaged doors would have been returned promptly to the store.
These doors were poorly painted, made even more obvious when we purchased primed doors which I painted myself. Quality control is expected to take place at the manufacturing facility. Either these doors were not inspected carefully, or your company is selling doors that are badly painted. This not only reflects poorly on your company, but also on Menard’s who sells your products, and I believe, owns your company. We paid $25 extra per door to have pre-painted doors versus primed doors in order to save the time involved in painting six doors. This totals $150 extra we paid for a painting job with no benefit, as now I have to repaint the doors. The offer of a $50 Menard’s in-store credit is a nice gesture, but it only covers the paint required to paint the doors that were supposed to be painted already. It doesn’t reimburse me for the hours required to do this painting. In view of this, I ask that you would consider increasing your offer to $100." The response I received back was basically, "take or leave the 50 bucks."
So we took the $50, which paid for the paint, but didn't make a dent in the labor involved in repainting (oops! sorry, PAINTING) six doors, which I did this week - at a labor rate of $2.22 an hour - still feeling angry and deciding to find a way to warn others NOT to EVER buy ANYTHING made by Midwest Manufacturing!Wooden Interior DoorsDoors WoodDoors PaintedStaining Oak DoorsPainted Trim Stained DoorsStained Door White TrimSolid Wood Doors InteriorsInterior Doors TrimStained Interior DoorsForwardOur new home has oak trim with matching 6 panel doors throughout...trying to find good examples of how white trim (because I really want to pain all the trim white!) works with oak doors (without having to replace the nice new doors!). I think this works...? Truck & Tool Rental The Home Depot Logo DIY Projects & Ideas Flooring & Area Rugs Lighting & Ceiling Fans Store SO SKU # 30 in. x 80 in. Textured 6-Panel Hollow Core Primed Composite Interior Door Slab Enjoy refined style and easy elegance with the 30 in. x 80 in.
Composite Primed Hollow Core 6-Panel Textured Slab Door. The industry benchmark for all composite wood doors, expert construction results in a more durable door that resists warping, shrinking, and cracking better than a solid wood door. Select designs offered in coordinating bi-fold and factory prehung single or double prehung units. Composite wood with classic panel design resists warping, shrinking and cracking Molded panels provide architectural detailing and elegance Textured pre-primed finish, perfect for painting and decorating Replacement size fits standard finished openings Door slab must be sealed on all six sides Reversible handing allows flexibility when installing Slab only hardware to install not included Click here to check out our project guide on installing an interior door Note: Product may vary by store Use and Care Manual You will need Adobe® Acrobat® Reader to view PDF documents. a free copy from the Adobe Web site.
Door Size (WxH) in.: I need three 26 by 80 six panel doors Thank you for your recent inquiry with The Home Depot, Gene. This Textured 6-Panel Hollow Core Primed Composite Interior Door Slab is only carried in select Home Depot stores in selected sizes. If they are not carried in your store, a specialist in your store may be able to special order them for you. Special orders are not available online. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you in the future. Thank you for shopping Home Depot. Thank you for your recent inquiry with The Home Depot. Because this item is only available in Home Depot stores, I believe the best advice would be to talk to one of our many specialty department professionals at your local Home Depot store. I need 22" x 80 " door...can I cut an inch off each side? or will hollow show? It cannot be cut. i bought a 24x80 door i need a 24x78 how much can i cut? You can cut up to 1" off of the bottom at the very most.
If you need to cut 2" off, you will need to cut another piece of wood to provide structure to the bottom of the door, as you will have cut off the part of the door that is already doing this. This piece of wood must be cut precisely and installed with glue and clamps. Be sure to cut from the bottom of the door only. does home depot cut the door knob hole? Can home depot cut the holes for door knob? Thank you for your recent inquiry with The Home Depot, Sam. As this is a store only item, I believe the best advice would be to speak with one of the many experienced Pro Desk members through your local Home Depot store. the door i'm replacing is 29 1/2". is this a special order item or the actual dimesion of a 30" door? The 30" refers to the door opening size. The door itself will actually be 29.5" wide so that there is a little bit of a gap on either side so that it can fit into the frame. What parts do I need to install it? I know a doorknob & hinges but how do I know which ones?