Mendocino Doors, Fort Bragg CA

Category & Type :

Artists

Location :

14660 Mitchell Creek Dr. , Fort Bragg CA

Phone :

707-964-0635

Website :

http://www.mendocinodoors.com

Information about Mendocino Doors...

Mendocino Doors has created Fine Custom Wood Doors since 1974. Featured in American Bungalow. We specialize in Exterior Doors, Interior Doors, Dutch Doors, Pocket Doors, Craftsman Doors, Prairie Style Doors, & Contemporary Doors. Mendocino Custom Doors values craftsmanship and design while utilizing the finest sustainable solid woods in the construction of exceptional fine custom door. MendocinoDoors.com creates custom wood doors. We specialize in Entry and Interior doors of all types. If you like the craftsman period, modern and contemporary, or hand carved with stained glass ...... we can make it for you.

Why Insist on Vertical Grain Wood

        Lumber that is sawn at approximately right angles to the annual growth rings so that the rings form an angle of 45% or more with the surface of the board. Vertical grain boards are more stable, are less likely to warp or shrink and much more stable than flat grain boards. According to the Redwood Inspection Service standards, "...clear all heart is grade of exceptional value, without peer among softwoods for both interior and exterior uses. This grade must be heartwood, well manufactured and of a uniformly high qualitysuitable for finish. Most pieces are entirely clear or have no faulty characteristics. Vertical grain wood possesses enhanced dimensional stability and will hold paints and finishes better than flat grain.

What is Old-Growth Redwood

Is an exceptional quality wood (from trees over 500- 1000 years old). MendocinoDoors.com's wood comes from logs left on the forest floor when the forest was first logged between 1880 and 1910. The all-heartwood Old-Growth is extremely resistant to decay, insects, and remains perfect after lying outdoors for up to 140 years! It also comes from salvaged timbers that have no defects or blemishes.

All of Our lumber have tight grain because the trees grew extremely slow in a competitive environment &emdash; more than 25 annual growth rings per inch (often up to 50 rings per inch). Our Grades are select clear-heart, mostly vertical grain (the most stable).

Some of these trees were alive over 2,500 years ago. Unfortunately, because of over-logging, very little of this precious wood is available anywhere anymore. MendocinoDoors.com is one of the only company's that still makes Doors from Old-Growth Redwood (that we know of!).

Exposed to the harsh year-round sun, rain and snow without maintenance (better to oil each year), Our Old-Growth Redwood Doors are guaranteed not to decay in any climate for 50 years. and it should last much longer. Old-Growth Redwood has no peers in terms of decay resistance.

I specialize in custom doors of any shape or size. I enjoy using a customers design or ideas ......... or offering doors of my design. My doors are constructed using the finest woods available and crafted to endure the tests of time. Scroll Down to view more doors that I have designed and constructed.

My "old growth Redwood timber" was cut from virgin forest in the 1800's, which was the booming era for logging, in the Redwood region of coastal Northern California.

The "butt" logs were left on the forest floor, for over 160 years, because they were unable to split them for railroad ties or fencing. Using small one man saw mills which are environmentally sound, the sawyers saw these stately old-growth logs. The quality, grain density, beauty, and distinctive character of this antique wood cannot be equaled with any of today's forested Redwood lumber.

My doors can be seen at The Highlight Gallery in Mendocino and The Dovetail Collection in Healdsburg.

How I work:

At Mendocino Doors, I build almost entirely with solid woods and not veneer.
I prefer to get the client involved in the design process...... and hopefully fulfill the clients "dreams".

Generally, customers will give me some idea of what they want and I begin to put it to paper, and through the sharing of mutual ideas we come up with a design that works well.

Because this is a collaborative effort a couple of drawings are then sent to the customer. Often we make changes until the client sees the door of their dreams.

Then I give the client a firm price, once the drawings are approved. It is one of my greatest rewards, to have a customer see and appreciate the craftsmanship that is an intregal part of their their project.