What Are Flush Doors And Why Choose Them?

Let’s Talk About Flush Doors

So, just what is a flush door? A flush door is a simple, uncomplicated design, a door with plain facings on both sides. There is no panelling or bevelling on the facings, so it offers a sleek, modern look. Flush doors are built more simply than other door types. They have a skeletal wood frame covered with a very thin timber sheet creating an impression of a solid, thick wooden door. This solid-core door comprises of an insulating material – often MDF or particle board and sometimes a fire-retardant material for added safety. This ‘core’ is inserted between the timber sheets to create the finished door.

Other versions of a flush door are also manufactured. A stave-core door is created by taking multiple vertical lengths of an inexpensive wood then covering the front, back and sides with a higher-quality wood veneer.

There is simpler version of a flush door created known as a hollow-core door. This is self-explanatory, with the doors consisting of just the thin, wood veneer strips and no inner core. These doors are not used that much as they offer poor insulation from both heat and sound perspectives and can appear somewhat flimsy. They are, however, easy, and cheap to produce and will appeal to those on a limited budget.

Benefits Of Flush Doors

Flush doors offer a clean, modern aesthetic to a space and are lightweight and easy to install. To best emphasise the merits of flush doors, it is perhaps better illustrated by comparing them with other door types, for example a panel door.

Panel doors are constructed differently. They consist of various individual panels brought together at the end of the manufacturing process with other different elements such as rails (horizontal beams) and stiles (vertical beams) to complete the finished door. The most telling difference between the different styled doors is the aesthetic appearance. The straight, flat lines of the flush door give a very modern look, whilst a panelled door offers a more textured and traditional appearance. Whilst some may say that a flush door can appear a little plain, it’s use in an appropriate setting like a modern office or apartment complex can be offset by more decorative elements in other parts of the room in which it sits – plants, pictures etc. A flush door will not usually sit well in an older, more traditional period building, where a panelled door is perhaps more appropriate. The simplicity of a flush door is a benefit in that they can be easily and inexpensively manufactured, and the interior of a flush door offers an important feature as it is ideal for insulation and fireproofing! In apartment complexes and commercial buildings, which are strictly governed by security and fire safety regulations, and fire-resistant doors are mandatory, this is especially beneficial in catering for special layers of plasterboard and fire-retardant material that are difficult to incorporate into panel and other style doors.

Whilst hollow-core flush doors are lightweight, and therefore easy to install and remove, solid doors are far more robust, so are more suitable for any security and safety-bound environment. Any building that requires fire-resistant doors should consider the solid door option.

Overall, it all depends on the individual location of your door and the composition of the room in which it is to sit, but flush doors are always an inexpensive, aesthetically pleasing, and practical choice for many environments.

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