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If you’re building a new home or renovating an existing building, chances are you’ll need to make a decision about doors. There are a wide range of doors, including custom wood doors, fire rated doors, hollow metal doors, pre hung doors, and slab doors.

What are pre hung doors, you might ask? A pre hung door is a door that is already hanging on a frame, so it can be opened and closed before being installed into your home. These self-contained units consist of a door slab, hinges and frame. Slab doors, on the other hand, are simply rectangular slabs of wood without hinges; they need to be attached to the building's structure by a renovator.

Pre hung doors, though they are more expensive than slab doors, are useful when your home is undergoing restoration work. They are a good option when there is no existing door frame, or when a frame is warped or defective in some way, making it hard for a traditional slab to be hung from it. Pre hung doors also make good exterior doors because they come fully sealed, so there’s chance of the weather creeping in.

If you’re a general contractor, you know what it’s like to work within a budget. Quality, sustainability, and customer service are all important, but the bottom line is that choosing the best vendors and distributors often comes down to, well, the bottom line. If you’re searching for a reliable distributor of wood and hollow metal doors, the first step in determining affordability is requesting a quote.

At www.DoorStopNY.com, we make applying for a quote extremely simple. You can call us, email us, or fax us a summary of your project, as well as any relevant blue prints, specifications, and schedules. Alternatively, you can submit this information via our electronic form, which makes it easy for you to attach up to 100 MB of supplemental files.

Best of all, DoorStop caters to jobs of all sizes. Whether you need fewer than 10 commercial wood doors or over 50, we can provide you with top quality doors, frames, and hardware up to your exact specifications. Even if you’re not sure what you need, we can visit your site and recommend the best products for your project – and the most cost-effective.

Eco-friendly doors benefit both individual homeowners and the environment as a whole. The Energy Star rated insulation means that homeowners need to consume less energy, resulting in reduced utility bills and smaller carbon footprints.

But this same insulation can also protect a home from strong winds, earthquakes, and fires, as well as mold, moisture, termites, and other pests. They can also block noise from the outside, which means no more worrying about noisy neighbors!

Best of all, these custom wood doors are sustainable right from production, as they are composed of 100% recycled material. Recycled doors help reduce deforestation, leaving more trees to replenish the atmosphere by converting carbon dioxide into oxygen. With so many great benefits, eco-friendly custom wood doors are a smart decision for any residential architect.

Renovating a building is a lot different than starting from scratch. You've got a space with preexisting walls, windows, and doors — among other features — and while it's possible to ignore or build over these elements, it's often better to preserve what you can. For example, many architects choose to fill their old door frames and openings with custom wood doors from a door distributor. This allows them to both conserve materials and embrace the building's original character.

Custom commercial wood doors can actually be retro-fitted to frames and openings, meaning that no space is too big or too small. And if you are envisioning a large or “statement” door, these kinds of custom wood doors are available as well.

That all sounds great, but who has the time to wait for a custom order to go through? When you order from www.DoorStopNY.com, your custom commercial wood doors will be ready in no time with the DOOR-N-24 program. Even large orders are available within a week. Plus, Door Stop will help you determine your exact sizing and installation needs. If only the rest of your renovation was this easy!

Fire rated doors are doors designed to keep smoke and fire out of an area for a designated amount of time, usually between 20 and 90 minutes. Of course, different buildings require different amounts of time — while one office building might be satisfied with 45-minute doors, a more at-risk factory would probably prefer doors built to withstand the full 90 minutes.

Rated doors are more common in commercial buildings than residential homes, although the needs vary dramatically per space. Some buildings only require fire rated doors for their emergency exit stairwells, while others will want nearly all of their doors to be fire rated. Overall, fire rated doors are most frequently used in public buildings, offices, and communal living areas such as dormitories.

Fortunately, fire rated doors aren't all function — they are also available in a variety of attractive forms, featuring MDF, stile and rail, and flush wood materials. And like any custom wood doors, fire rated doors can be modified to include any combination of glass, hardware, veneers, and more. They can even be certified under LEED criteria!

Door Stop opens the door to success because of how thorough we are. We don’t just provide doors – we do everything related to doors. We can help to manage your affairs no matter who you are. The following demonstrates how we work with different parties to achieve the results that they need.

General Contractors: We work with general contractors to make sure that your doors are delivered on time at exactly the right place. For commercial wood doors or hollow metal doors, we can construct a door to your exact specifications, and we never use ripped, or cut-down from standard size, doors. We can even get you the door you need within 24 hours. That’s speedy.

Architects: We work with you to plan your exact specifications. As experts, we consider ourselves a valuable resource in helping you to achieve what you desire, and we can even offer further ideas about how to implement your door needs.

Architectural Millworkers: Sometimes it can be difficult for architects and contractors to meet on common ground. We enter the picture here to help meet creative specifications with real-world practicality of your door choices.

Government Agencies: Our work is so clean cut and transparent that it meets the standards of the government in completing paperwork, documentation and certification. Our products are environmentally sustainable so that we can pave the way in bidding governmental jobs.

Door Stop – Right Door. Right Here. Right Now.

Doors are ubiquitous in commercial and residential settings.

We’re so used to seeing them, that we don’t realize just how many varieties and styles are out there. The average consumer is unaware of the intricacies that distinguish commercial wood doors from others. So it’s pretty common for people who are remodeling to take the door selection process lightly by assuming that they’re all the same.

In residential settings you have a little more leeway with choosing a door, but in commercial settings it’s a little more important that you’re choosing the right door for your business environment.

Choosing and installing commercial wood doors that don’t work for your business, could mean delays in productivity that cost you time and money. If concerned with choosing the right commercial wood door and having it installed properly, it’s imperative that you consult Door Stop NY’s professional and knowledgeable staff.

Door Stop NY has the skills and industry know-how to provide you with complete commercial wood door solutions. Whether it’s deciding on hinges, veneers, the right core, or the perfect handles, DoorStop’s architects are dedicated to taking your concepts and concerns, and turning them into workable solutions that are cohesive to your business’s environment. We can even work with your general contractor to ensure that every area is taken care of and your commercial wood doors are exactly what you wanted.

For more information about Door Stop NY, visit DoorStopNY.com or call (888) DOOR-N-24.