Customer Reviews

Doors (Best of Fine Homebuilding)

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As with all compilations of magazine articles, if you happen to run across one that addresses the specific subject that you are interested in, you're lucky. I was looking for information on how to design and build interior and exterior residential doors. This is not the book for that.

I have to say I have not read the book cover to cover. I had a double French door to install. I thought it would be fun to build my own. I don't consider woodworking and carpentry my hobby, or my job, but there are times I wish they were. I didn't have time to build my own, but found four separate articles describing four different methods of hanging doors. You could tell from these that most carpenters have their own way of doing this job, these were probably the best. I picked the one that seemed easiest and made the most sense to me.

My door went in with ease and more confidence. I learned even more from the actual "doing" of course.

The rest of the book apprently contains reprints of articles from the magazine. I frequently find the writing in such magazines substandard, but the editors must do a little work on the writing. You still find some of that "Well, what I do is..." and technical talk which I had to reread a few times to understand. Some items seemed repetitive making you feel this already thin book has some fodder stuffed into it. For this reason I downgraded to four stars, but perhaps my lack of knowledge makes that unfair.

I only skimmed through the door making sections. These looked very inviting and make me want to build a door!

A very good book to have that gets right to the point, and I'm looking forward to seeing the others in the series.