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Hi, I was wondering if you could help me with a delema? My past experience with wood doors were, they would swell at the jam and edges of the door itself in damp weather. Do you think fiberglassing the door and jam would take care of this problem? Tim

timlsalem wrote:Hi, I was wondering if you could help me with a delema? My past experience with wood doors were, they would swell at the jam and edges of the door itself in damp weather. Do you think fiberglassing the door and jam would take care of this problem? Tim

If the door is completely sealed it will not sweel! I put epoxy on all the edges but got water in the bottom. Don't remember doing more than one coat on that part. Just seal all the edges really well.

will try that, thank you.

My doors are wood and I have never had problems in wet weather. Like Miriam said, just be sure to seal all edges. I used CPES to seal mine.

I cpes'ed everything, then cut the doors out of the wall, so the gap is the width of a saw blade... never had any swelling problems.... and doors work fine..

But, I did bevel the back edge and bottom. House doors are usually beveled so they don't bind when opening... I think I did mine about 7 degrees. On the bottom, it helps drain the water when it rains.

I used a steel frame and a Refrigerator door with a house type doorknob.
Kept the seal, but replaced the plastic shelf side with thin plywood. Wish I had one with ice and water option , but of course that would not work
With a good coat of paint or polyurathane you will have very minimal sweeling and no problems. Good luck.