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I need to get a new kitchen storm door. It got very warm today and just like last summer the door seems to be expanding and getting stuck or won't open. I think that the main problem is that the hinge points are loose so it hangs further away from the hinge point than it should. Question is, what should I be looking for in a door once I get past style? I see that some are wood core. What is the advantage to that? What else should I be looking for or avoiding?
 
The doors I have { I think they were called Enco] have storage right in the door for the screen or glass, Winter lower the screen into the door and pull up the glass . Summer lower the glass down into door and pull up screen . The rest of the door is vinyl.
 
Better look closer, some of the so called wood core storm doors are actually vinyl covered
sawdust board. They will fall apart before the hinges, perhaps 20 years max. The aluminum doors
your hinges fall apart, aluminum won't fall apart.

As for me, I like the sawdust doors because they have a roll up screen built in. Pull down on
window and there is a screen. Like I said, you may get 20 years or less out of them.

Either way you cut it, storm doors don't seem to last forever. Storm doors are easy to replace.
 
I have one I need to replace too, it is a Larson with the so called wood core. The door has held up good except it had 2 fancy moldings below the glass fastened on with screws, well the screw holes let in water and it has swelled up to twice the orignal thickness. I was looking on Larson web site and looks like they are still using the same dumb idea. The Larson on front door is like George described with the roll up screen, cost is more but it is 1 1/2" thick and no wood core.
 
Certain models of Larson doors come with a lifetime warranty. Might be worth checking out.
 
I install probably 20 storm doors a year, stay away from
Larson, they are complete junk. I have been installing
Columbia storm doors for a few years now, they make a
combination door with a self storing screen they call the tiara.
I have 3 on my house. It is the most popular with my
customers. I have heard good things about pro via storm
doors. I haven't seen the perfect storm door yet, they seem to
be a necessary evil
 
I had checked with our suplier and they said no, but I was thinking calling Larson. We have had bad luck on doors and windows. We used Anderson windows and Stanley ex doors when we built. Anderson has 20 yr warranty and they have replaced all of them, but now going bad again.
Stanley had replaced 2 doors and one of the replacements went bad, rust thru. One they said was just out of warranty so I ate it. Now the Larson thing. The old house at the other place has doors over 100 yrs old.
 
You might not be thinking along these lines, but all the storm doors at our place were made either by a local cabinetmaker or by me. We could get them set up exactly the way we wanted, and I expect that they'll all still be in service
long after I'm out of service. The only downside is that they're a lot heavier than the usual home-improvement-store type.
 
When we built (7 year ago) had a screen porch added. Used Larson top of the line doors. Within 5 years they were sagging and dragging. Hinge problems. Larson sent new doors and paid for the installation. So far so good but guess after awhile they will sag again.
 
I have 4 Larson doors I purchased in 2003. They were not inexpensive, and the type that the screen rolls up when lowering the window. I wanted to put a screen door
where my utility room goes into the garage, and my first requirement was they were NOT Larson. I would not own another Larson. By the time they were a year old the
springs that counterbalance the window failed. I should have replaced them long ago, but waiting to see how the one I purchased last year holds up before I buy more. My
recommendation would be anything but Larson storm doors, but they seem to be very popular and tough to avoid them for some reason, and it isn't quality.
 
I have a self storing storm door called a Forever door and I think its made by EMCO. I put it on house in 1979 (back door gets a lot of use) and is a good door. I have replaced several door latches, just replaced cylinders and is in need of paint for first time since bought.
 
Does anyone even make the plain ole aluminum storm doors anymore ?
I've got some of those Larson vinyl covered (sawdust ?) doors and am not impressed. The vinyl is falling off the newest one. I should see if I can find the paperwork from when I got it and see about a warrantee.
Most I see in the home stores now are those all glass ones. I sure don't think I want one of those ! More than likely I'd have a bunch of broken glass to clean up.
 
There is nothing wrong with a "GOOD" all glass door,we have 1 that was put on in 71 or 72(42x92),never the first complaint.Two others in early 90s(normal 36"),latchs only repair and 1 gets a good work out every day by a SIBERIAN HUSKY.But NONE of them were -are Lowes-Menards-Home Depot type doors. Only drawback is IF you want a screen,then you don't change them in 10 seconds.We have had them in rentals and never lost a glass.(Lumber Yard type)
 
Mike M,
The Larson vinyl covered (sawdust ?) doors don't impressed me either. When the vinyl starts cracking I fill the crack with silicon. That door falls apart before the hinges do. Lucky to get 20 years out of the door.

I've yet to find the perfect storm door. If you have the old all aluminum door where you remove the window to put in a screen, a tenant will damage both the window and the screen when not in the door. A no win. Expensive to repair.
 
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