Hey everyone it's Dylan and Charlie from The Black Forest Wood Company we're back again
with something different i know i say that all the time but we do like to try and mix it up
so we've got a door install if you guys have been subscribed for a while you may have seen a
few door installs before but we haven't done one for a few months we do have lots of doors on the
go right now though so there's going to be more coming up it is a single solid maple door unit
it's got one side light too and we put a nice dark stain on it so please let us know what you
guys think of this when we're all done there is a huge amount of effort that goes into these doors
so even just a like or a comment really means a lot to us when we put these videos out
so I hope you guys enjoy
so to start this door off, we're gluing up the sidelights here and
for all of our doors, we like to use Titebond 3 because it's the best performing glue that we
found for exterior applications number one it's waterproof and number two it doesn't re-liquefy
when exposed to heat so if you're getting sun on the door you don't have to worry about the glue
failing and we've just had really really good experiences with it you'll also see that we're
using dowels in there those help for alignment but they definitely do give a lot of strength as well
So the boys are just hanging the door for the first time right here
we like to do a test fit first to make sure that everything's lining up properly see if we need to
adjust our shims and this i guess that's one thing i can comment on too is you see how we're putting
those shims behind the hinge that's not because we accidentally machined too deep it's so that we can
build in future adjustability so by having those shims in if the door settles after it's installed
we can take them out and still get a good fit and we actually like to finish all of our doors
in oil based products so we're applying the osmo one coat only in ebony now even though it says one
coat only we still like to follow this up with a top coat of their clear 420 uv oil but the reason
that we've actually picked using oils on our doors is because in the past we used to use sprayed
polyurethanes and we found that we actually ran into issues like you know five six years sometimes
ten years down the road where it would start to flake and peel a little bit which results in a
costly repair so by using oil all you have to do is every three to five years put some more oil on
the door and you can keep it looking brand new we don't need to do this portion then here joe's just
machining in the strike plate in the door so we've already got the full mortise lock set actually
machined in the door and i guess i should correct myself he's machining the strike plate in the jam
and you'll see once this is installed it's going to allow all our hardware to shut properly
first thing we got to do when we get on site is, obviously rip out the existing door
since this job is for a renovation
so we're getting that pulled out and then next up you're going to see us ripping the frame out here
renovations sometimes can be interesting because there can be a little more modification to the
home or the rough opening that has to be done to get everything to fit thankfully though as
you guys are going to see this one didn't go too bad at all and it went very smoothly for us
you pull on this side of it this side your side's going too far try and pull it out parallel
okay watch your eyes holy crap
all right take it out and go lay it behind the trailer or something like
so, first thing to go in is our jam so we've already got some blocks set up
on the bottom of the rough opening and we've got our blue tape in there
that's just to give a waterproof seal, okay are you guys good
yep go easy go more on that side yeah all right now you're going to start going down
okay then we like to get the bottom lifted in first as you guys are gonna see here so
the boys will get that set in and then we just stand the rest of the unit up into place and if
we did everything right the door should fit it fit another thing that we like to do is actually
screw our frame into place so that's what you saw there right now we've got a few pre-drilled holes
in the jam and then we just plug them after so now the door is going on and there's our shims that
you can see that i mentioned before so those just sneak in there behind our hinges and then like
i said if this door settles in its first little while in the home we've got really easy adjustment
and john was just doing the same thing underneath the door as well these here are the plugs that i
mentioned that are going to hide any of the screw holes so we pre-finish and pre-stain these so that
when it comes time on site all we have to do is cut them to thickness and they can go right in
so now john's just nailing on some of our casing and the brick mold on the outside and there's our
finished door so i personally really really like the way this color came out maple can
be hard to get it to stain properly but ben did a really good job on this door well i hope you guys
enjoyed seeing some door content again i know it's been a little while since we've posted one but we
actually have a ton of doors on the go right now so there is going to be more door videos coming up
and something not a lot of people uh probably know about our business if you've just been watching
us through youtube is that we actually started building custom solid wood doors it was never
the epoxy tables that we did in the beginning so for like 25 years basically it was all
solid wood doors and then in about the past three or four years is stay there charlie is how long
we've been doing the table so it's it's always fun to get to go back to our roots and do the doors
because there's you know there's a lot that goes into one of them so let us know what you guys
think if you want to see more door content or if you'd rather just see table content
but regardless of whatever you guys say we do have a really cool table coming up right behind
me here it is the biggest pour we've ever done and it's the largest actually second largest dining
table we've ever made we did this is 20 feet we did have a 30 footer we made but it didn't have
resin so next week you're gonna get to see our pour for this i think it was like eight thousand
dollars in epoxy uh but yeah we are really excited to show you guys this one what the heck
charlie sit good boy really beautiful dark stain on it
so let us know what you guys think when it's all done
he's like a rapper and they hold the mic from above charlie