Our customers, Larry and Diane, needed a way to keep some of the volume from Larry’s custom stereo set-up contained in his stereo room.  They came to Interior Door Concepts for some ideas, and we worked with them to create a great solution for their project.

When customers come to us looking for a way to improve the privacy in their home, we usually suggest installing solid core doors.  These doors look just like the other doors in your home, but are much heavier than the typical hollow core doors that builders put in homes.  The manufacturer says solid core doors reduce sound transmission through the doors by 50% compared to hollow core doors.  Solid core doors accomplish this by having a heavy particle board liner inside.  The weight and acoustically disorganized characteristic of the particle board are what makes these solid core doors great at sound isolation.

The installation was accomplished with our standard customer-pleasing methods.  We made a free in-home consultation to give the customer the estimate and to take the detailed measurements we needed to fit the new doors.

Once Larry and Diane signed up, we ordered the materials and had them delivered to our shop.  We cut the doors to fit the opening, mortised them for hinges and bored the active door for the knob.  The inactive door received a T-astragal with a flush bolt mortised in.  We then painted the doors in a color-match with Sherwin-Williams Kem-Aqua water borne lacquer.  Kem-Aqua provides a superior finish for doors because it is hard, smooth, and cures very quickly.

After the doors were cut, sanded, and painted in our shop, we scheduled the installation in the customer’s home.  We installed the two new solid core doors in an existing opening in about an hour on the installation day.  Installation required cutting hinge mortises on the existing jamb, installing and adjusting the doors, installing pre-painted door stop, and installing the knobs.

The customers were pleased with the results and the hassle-free installation.

If you have a stereo room or a media room that you’d like to make more quiet, please give us a call at 713-467-3667 to discuss your project.

Take care,

Dave