Carriage Door Construction

[Jared Sankovich]

What do you mean by "molded profile"? I have never heard that term before. Thanks.

Necro thread, but..

Moulded profile would be the sticking on a panel door.

What kind of exterior wood do you recommend? I guess for 1 3/4 thick I would purchase 8/4 and joint/plane down to 1 3/4? My door is not going to have rails and stiles. It is going to be 6 boards vertical with a tongue & groove joint. I was thinking of about a 6" treated board on there bottom horizontal to resist bottom rot. The top will be rounded on one side corner and I was planning on end grain on the top.

Sapele, genuine Honduran mahogany, white oak, accoya, CVG fir..

Treated pine is not what you want, unless you really just want a barn door.

[Jim Becker]

If you want to look at sapele, Scott at Somerton Ridge Hardwoods in the Suffolk area may still have some of the really nice 8/4 I picked up from him while attending a sign making painting course at his place. "A really good deal", too.