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Quotes & Buying Online

Each Emerald Door is built to your personal preferences with many options in sizes, shapes, wood, glass, finishing, door knobs and trim choices.  The pictures on the website illustrate ideas for your new entryway but a personalized quotation allows you to chose the wood, glass or size options best suited for your home reflecting  your personal taste.

Average Prices Entryways

Single Doors                      $ 2,000 - $ 5,000

Double Doors                    $ 4,000 - $ 7,000

Door & Sidelights               $ 5,000 - $ 8,000

Oversized Entryway            $ 7,000 - $ 12,000

Estate Oversized Entryway  $10,000 - $ 28,000

  • How do I get a quote and place an order?

    Emerald Doors' experienced door specialists will guide you through the purchase process. 

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    • They will prepare a quotation for the entryway you are interested in, with options available for that entryway.
    • Once you have chosen your options, an order confirmation will be prepared for your approval.
    • The design team will prepare a production drawing to scale showing all of your choices and sizes along with the rough opening for approval.
    • For Additional Information See Webpage

       

Normal production time is 7 - 10 weeks depending on the number of orders received in that week.

Order Confirmations are prepared listing all of your choices.

To expedite your order it is important to finalize all sizes and options within 7 days of placing your order so your order can be incorporated into the production schedule without delay.

  • The jamb (frame) can sometimes be shipped in 14-21 days if you need it sooner. 
    • There is an additional shipping charge to ship jamb separately.
  • For a very large or complex entryway the jamb can sometimes be shipped in 3-4 weeks.

The rough opening is the size of the opening prepared for the door or entryway.

  • Emerald Doors allows 1/2 " on each side and 1/2" at the top to allow for leveling and squaring the door or entryway into the opening.
  • They can provide the rough opening to you or make an entry to fit your existing opening.

 

Yes, Emerald Doors makes each entry to order and can size it to what you need.

  • They can send you a measurement sheet to provide the measurements needed for a custom sized entry door or entryway.
  • Many clients change from double doors to a door and sidelights or door and sidelights to double doors.  Emerald Doors can make the sizes you need for a replacement entryway.
  • They can also provide the rough opening to the builder if you are doing an addition.

 

 

 

Door Accessories & Trims

  • Can I order the door knob from Emerald Doors and have the door cut for it?

    Yes, Emerald Doors can provide and cut for your door knob.

    • They will send you door knob catalogs upon request.
    • Emerald Doors prepares your doors for either cylinder or mortise locksets.
    • They will check the lockset to make sure it is in proper working order and all parts are present.
    • Options such as different exterior and interior finishes are available.
    • For Additional Information See Webpage

Cylinder Lockset

  • Top lock deadbolt.
  • Holes drilled for lock and handle set placement.

Mortise Lockset

  • Mortise lock body fits inside door stile.
  • Deadbolt and handle locks.
  • Buttons for automatic locking.
  • Lock body weighs 2 pounds 10 ounces.
  • Custom pocket for lock body cut into door stile.

Brick molding is the trim that goes around the exterior of the door jamb.

  • The brick or siding of the house comes to the edge of the brick molding.

 

Decorative door trims allow you to have a door that fits your personal style.

  • Standard Applied Trim
    • Applied around glass and panel openings
    • Decorative profile that fits most home's decor

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No Applied Trim

  • No trims around panels and glass openings.
  • A sleeker more contemporary look.

Fluted Trim with Rosettes and Keystones

  • Adds additional interest and textural elements to the doors
  • Fluted trims with rosettes are available for the exterior brick molding and interior casing also.

  

Ledge & Dentil Molding

  • Adds additional interest and textural elements to the doors
  • Can be used on the exterior or interior of doors.

 

Yes, extra keys can be ordered.

  • Entry door keys normally have a larger top to them and have the manufacturers name stamped on them making easier for you to locate on your key ring.

Hinge tips fit into the top and bottom of the hinge adding a decorative element.

  • Ball Hinge Tips

  • Steeple Hinge Tips

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Decorative Door Trims

 

 

Shipping

Yes, Emerald Doors ships throughout the United States directly to your location.

  • Due to our shipping volume we have negotiated a 70% discount with our shipping companies.  They only charge you the actual shipping cost charged to them.
  • Custom wood crates are built to offer maximum protection.

 

Installation

  • What about installation of my new door?

    Emerald Doors' provides detailed installation instructions.

    • Detailed installation instructions are included in Emerald Doors' shipping packets.
    • All items needed for installation along with free door shims, touch up kits and matching wood putty.
    • Local contractors, trim carpenters, cabinet companies and lumber companies are good sources for installers.
    • Should your installer have any questions, Emerald Doors' door experts are available to answer any questions.

 

Why Emerald Doors?

  • Compare the Quality

Emerald Doors goes above beyond when it comes to quality, handcrafting doors and entryways that provide lasting beauty with enduring style and spectacular design.

  • Expert Design
    • Experienced Designers create original designs in both door and decorative glass.
    • Custom Sizes and Custom Designs
  • Quality Woods
    • Highest Quality Woods
    • No Veneers
    • Mahogany, White or Red Oak, Alder, Cherry, Walnut, Paint Grade

     

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Quality Hardwoods

Mahogany, Red Oak, White Oak, Cherry,  Alder, Walnut

  

 Rough  Mahogany    

FAS Mahogany

 

 

Planed Mahogany

Emerald Doors starts with FAS rough sawn lumber (best grade of lumber with largest amount of clear wood) and plane it to a rough thickness, the wood is then allowed time to acclimate to it's new thickness (stresses are removed from the wood once it is planed) prior to surfacing to exact thickness.  The extra time for the acclimation makes a very straight and strong piece of wood.  An extra step Emerald Doors does to make sure you have the highest quality door and entry.

Each piece of wood is hand selected from their wood stock for quality and visually inspected for the grain allowing them to choose the best pieces to show off the beauty of the wood for your new entry.

All thickness measurements are taken with digital calipers to 1/1,000 of an inch with a specification to within +/- .005 (5/1,000 of and inch).  These standards are considered extremely high for wood manufacturers.

Even Emerald Doors' door trims, brickmolding and interior casings are made using FAS wood.  This allows for the best match and quality in each trim that is used in their doors.

A beautiful door begins with quality wood that will endure time and the elements.  Emerald Doors expects their doors to remain beautiful for years to come.

 

Other Door Companies

Low Quality Woods

 

Engineered Door Rail

Engineered stiles and rails for doors are many times made of finger joint pine and alder. Some imported doors do not even bother to finger joint the interior lower quality woods and simply butt end blocks of wood creating large voids of unstable material. Face skins of different mahogany woods are then applied to exposed areas.   If a door is cut for the door knob you can sometimes see if lower quality blocks of wood were used by close inspection of the wood. 

 

 

  • Solid Wood Stiles and Rails
    • Solid wood door, sidelight & transom components
      • No veneers or engineered stiles, rails and panels

       

  • Mortise & Tenon Construction
    • Strongest joint in woodworking

Emerald Doors

Mortise & Tenon

Extremely Strong Joint

Strongest Joint in Woodworking

Doors, Sidelights and Transoms have Mortise and Tenon Construction.

Other Door Companies

Inferior Doweled Construction

Small Wood Pins Holding Doors Together

Inferior Cope & Stick Joinery

Trims Holding Doors Together

  • Double Floating Panels

    • Solid Wood Double Floating Panels
      • Allows for varying interior and exterior temperature differences

Emerald Doors

Double Floating Panels

Other Door Companies

Single Panels

 

Inferior Woods with Thin Panels

 

 

  • Panels Stained & Sealed Panels Prior to Assembly
    • Sealed from the elements on all edges

Emerald Doors

Panels Stained & Sealed Prior to Assembly

Other Door Companies

Panels Not Stained or Sealed

Some companies have "stain seeping trims"?

If the trim allows stain to seep behind the trims it would also allow water and humidity.

 

Hand Finishing

Emerald Doors

Meticulous Hand Finishing

  • Wood's natural beauty is enhanced and protected with hand finishing.

  • Penetrating premium stains bring out the wood's natural tones and beauty.

  • All hardware cuts for door knobs and hinges are made prior to finishing and even the backs of jambs are sealed.

  • Interior and exterior finishes are premium exterior ultraviolet polyurethane.

  • Emerald Doors finishing includes a multistep finishing process that blends wood tones between individual pieces of wood while retaining the wood's natural beauty.

  • Each coat of finish is hand sanded between coats.

  • Multiple coats of finish in controlled conditions ensure enduring beauty.  

 

Other Door Companies

Wood does not match

Uneven staining and finishing

Lower quality finish

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