Rather than spending a few hundred dollars to pick up solid wood doors from your local hardware store, you can quickly give ...

Q: My 110-year-old front door is delaminating on the exterior. It is solid wood, very heavy and wider than normal. Who can repair this and how? Washington A: Judging from the pictures you sent ...

Q: The gumwood veneer of our west-facing front door is cracked and peeling. It's the original solid wood door on a 1924 San Francisco home. The door was painted by the previous owners, but the ...

What you heard is right: Most of the “solid wood” exterior doors sold these days are made with some type of manufactured wood covered with veneer. True, they are wood all the way through.