Why Choose a Wood Door

Builders have used wood for thousands of years to create strong and sturdy structures that last for years to come, and wood doors are no different. 

Your customers set their sights on wood doors because they are:

• Durable 
• Can be completely customized
• Aesthetically pleasing
• Secure
• Offer good value for budget considerations 

However, homeowners, contractors, or builders may have reservations about wood doors since traditional wood doors require quite a bit of maintenance and money to keep looking and functioning like new. Some homeowners are worried about the commitment it takes to upkeep a wood door. 

But there is a solution…

Masonite’s DuraStyle™ exterior wood doors are created with AquaSeal™, a proprietary technology that provides a coat of pure protection against water, moisture, and the elements. This process reduces the risk of typical concerns associated with wood doors like warping, splitting, cracking, rotting, and delamination, and makes your door 22x more resistant to water penetration.

If customers are looking for an option even more durable and maintenance-free, select a torrefied wood species for your DuraStyle™ door. Torrefied wood is specially treated with heat to eliminate all moisture from the wood, making it highly resistant to heat, cold and moisture. This enables you to have a wood door without the need of an overhang to protect it from the elements.

Wood Doors: Beauty & Home Renovations

We are living in the time of being home. And when people spend more time at home, they will inevitably want to revamp their spaces to make them feel more personal, organized, or appropriate for how they are now using them. 

While there are many ways to upgrade your home, interior and exterior doors are often overlooked, but shouldn’t be! It is one of the easiest ways to upgrade and visually add to the appeal of a home. 

No matter if a home is modern or traditional, Masonite’s DuraStyle™ exterior wood doors can replace an old, low-quality, windowless front door with a new, custom wood door with rich colored modern wood and crystal-clear glass windows. Here you achieve three things: 

1. Your curb appeal immediately improves
2. The exterior of your home evokes a warmer and more inviting atmosphere
3. Your interior entryway gets an update, bringing in natural beauty from the rich wood and allowing natural light to flood into your home

As you can see, just one simple change to a house can drastically transform major areas of a home with little effort. 

Masonite’s DuraStyle™ exterior wood doors are also perfect for historic renovations, which can come with its own set of challenges, rules, regulations, and restrictions depending on the city.  Fortunately, Masonite’s DuraStyle™ exterior wood doors are fully customizable to meet the special needs of the historic homeowner. 

Masonite’s AquaSeal™ Technology

Many people feel concerned about wood doors being too hard to upkeep – we’re talking about issues with cracking, chipping, warping, keeping the door away from the elements so it doesn’t begin to rot, and more.  Every DuraStyle™ wood door is AquaSealed to help take the maintenance and issues associated with traditional wood doors off the shoulders of builders, contractors, and homeowners. 

When a wood door is AquaSealed, it goes through a specialized process to ensure strict quality standards are met with each door. 

AquaSeal™ technology goes on clear and seals the edges of wood panels and glass inserts. AquaSeal™ provides a barrier of pure protection against water, moisture, and the elements making your new wood door 22x more resistant to water penetration. 

If customers are looking for an option even more durable and maintenance-free, select a torrefied wood species for your DuraStyle™ door. Torrefied wood is specially treated with heat to eliminate all moisture from the wood, making it highly resistant to heat, cold and moisture. This enables you to have a wood door without the need of an overhang to protect it from the elements.

What is Torrefied Wood?

If you have never heard of torrefied wood, you’re not alone. Most people haven’t, but it should be on your radar. 

Torrefied wood is ideal for exterior wood doors because of its high tolerance to the elements like high heat, extreme cold, wind, rain, snow, sleet, etc. It helps prevent a wood door from being high maintenance and expensive to upkeep, which is one of the main reasons many builders and homeowners shy away from traditional wood doors. 

Torrefaction is the process a piece of wood goes through where the wood dries out over a long period of time in extremely high temperatures. Because the wood is heated to such high temperatures, it removes organic compounds left in the wood slab. The removal of organic compounds from the wood’s cells is so important because it helps eliminate the wood’s tendency to rot over time. 

There are absolutely no chemicals used during the process and no toxic residues left behind on the door after it’s finished. This makes it not only safe for the environment but also safe for families to use and touch daily. 

Overall, a torrefied wood door is so beneficial because it significantly improves the longevity of the wood door and makes it highly durable in a healthy, natural, and sustainable way.