strange oak front door construction

[murdoch]

Hi all,

I've been asked to make a front door and side panel similar to the picture shown. It all looks no problem until I saw that the door is full width horizontal boarding front and back with an insulated core and there are no styles which the customer is dead set on.

Does anybody know how to construct one of these to allow for timber movement and so that it will be stable? In my head it's a bad way to make a door but people seem to be selling them so there must be a way that I hadn't thought of. Any help would be much appreciated.

thanks

 

[Zeddedhed]

Pretty sure that the front will be a laminate, say 10mm thick with V grooves routed in or something similar, glued onto a solid core door blank.
We made a similar one for a client a year or so ago and that's how our joiner did it. Still looking good to date and no problems.

HTH

 

[RobinBHM]

I wonder if doors like this are engineered construction with a thick face veneer.

Ive made vertical T&G doors which start as a door with 2 stiles and 4 rails then clad both sides with thin boarding, say 12-34-12. I suppose in theory the boarding could be horizontal provided there is enough expansion gap between each board. The boards would have to be fixed with nails of some sort though.

I tend to turn down jobs like this where the design requires a construction that conflicts with movement of timber.