when is an oak door not an oak door .

[James carter]

hi my partners bought some engineered oak doors and I knew they wouldn't be made of solid oak but I did assume the veneers and lipping around the door would be made of oak . this door the veneer looks fine but any hardwood parts of the door seem to be made of a different hardwood altogether. the grain doesn't look right the colour doesn't look right . I'll try and attach a couple photos . could anyone tell me is it a type of oak I've not seen before or something else ?
thanks in advance to anyone that takes the time to reply. the light isn't the best in our front room but the lipping are very pinkish coloured

 

[Agent_zed]

looks a bit like the cheap indian hardwood. Not sure what it's called but often see it in pallets etc. I assume it's the equivalent of our use of pine.

 

[James carter]

thankyou this is pretty much what I thought . it looks a lot like the hardwood lippings I get for firedoors which I get from howdens .

 

[BC'er]

When is an oak door not an oak door?​

When it's not made to order?

 

[Amplidyne]

I'll stick my neck out again!
Face veneers look like they might be some sort of oak. American red or white possibly? Lipping definitely isn't any oak I've ever seen.
As said cheap tropical hardwood of some sort. Seen it before, but don't know what it is.

 

[johnnyb]

Sometimes the fake oak ones are much better to cut oak can be very hard and chippy. Some is like idigbo. That looks like elm but the grain us all over the place.

 

[XTiffy]

I have such a door and the fine print mentions veneered on laminated core. This should mean that the face veneers are oak but the lippings (as they could well require trimming to fit) are another timber.

 

[stuart little]

hi my partners bought some engineered oak doors and I knew they wouldn't be made of solid oak but I did assume the veneers and lipping around the door would be made of oak . this door the veneer looks fine but any hardwood parts of the door seem to be made of a different hardwood altogether. the grain doesn't look right the colour doesn't look right . I'll try and attach a couple photos . could anyone tell me is it a type of oak I've not seen before or something else ?
thanks in advance to anyone that takes the time to reply. the light isn't the best in our front room but the lipping are very pinkish coloured View attachment 190749View attachment 190750View attachment 190751View attachment 190752

When it's ajar!

 

[James carter]

When it's ajar!

God sake haha

 

[HOJ]

Has this door been trimmed to fit?

If not then its a reject, Some of them have a very small margin for shooting in, I've come across a few that are down to 5mm on the stiles.

 

[James carter]

yeah it's been planed to fit . we chose this brand (lpd ) because they had more scope to trim the door than most and its an old house and the openings a bit tight . the door lining was so bowed and I didn't want to plane the brand new door to the shape of a banana the amount of messing around I had to do to get it right I wish I'd just put a new lining in there .
also forgot to say this was the worst door to plain down I've ever done ! the planer tore hundreds of little chunks out all up the sides of the door . never had that happen before . I used to get frustrated when I was younger when I struggled to make a nice job of things sometimes as I've got older I've realised half the times it's not having the correct tool for the job or sharp enough tools and half the time it's the materials you're supposed to work with are crap to start with