Decent interior door HINGES? Also, custom doors from where?

[Itsjustdirt]

1. I'm sick of sh!#@y door hinges that I buy at HD/Lowes. Do you guys have any suggestions on reasonably priced, decent quality interior door hinges?

2. I'm working on a house from the early 50's that has 3 panel interior doors. HD and Lowes dont carry them but can order some that are SIMILAR. Any suggestions on brands/companies that make decent doors and can ship to me?
(located in San Diego if it matters).

Thanks!

 

[EdT]

1) the intersection of decent quality and reasonably priced is probably very small. However, some of the Baldwin stuff is pretty good, but not cheap. Lee Valley Tools has a very comprehensive hardware offering and I have found their stuff to be good quality, but I've never used their interior door hinges.
2) In my experience, special order doors can be nose bleed expensive. I don't know how many you need, but I'd certainly be checking out a local architectural salvage place. There must be one in San Diego someplace. Even if you have to pay to have them professionally stripped, you'll probably come out ahead. Maybe not, I'm pretty sure California has banned anything that will actually work to strip paint.

 

[Pate]

I sell a lot of hinges. Stanley and Hager make some nice ballbearing hinges in arch finishes. Emtek is another good choice for residential hinges that are better quality at a much better price then Baldwin.

 

[stingry]

I also have a house that was built in 1953. The original hinges were Stanley and still in good condition. I found matching hinges on eBay when I did some remodeling. Try local auction houses and salvage companies for the doors and hinges.

 

[Jmonnty]

Bommer and Hager are your options for domestically produced hinges, but only in architectural weights.
Emtek is an Assa Abloy company now that imports the entire line, but quality is still decent, they have a stake and operate the factories in china. Baldwin is a B&D/ Stanley company, mostly overpriced.
Pictures of the doors, there are lots of manufacturers that can do an excellent job?

 

[Stuart in MN]

2. I'm working on a house from the early 50's that has 3 panel interior doors. HD and Lowes dont carry them but can order some that are SIMILAR. Any suggestions on brands/companies that make decent doors and can ship to me?
(located in San Diego if it matters).

Thanks!

A quick search on 'custom doors San Diego' turned up this place, among others: https://www.customdoorboutique.com

They may well be able to provide good hinges as well. Remember that Lowes and Home Depot aren't the only places to shop.

 

[captaindiode]

I bought some Deltana residential hinges with ball bearings. The quality was good and they were not real expensive either.

https://deltana.net/catalog/steel-s.../110_3-12x-3-12x-58-radius-hinge-ball-bearing

 

[8mpg]

For the doors...check your local lumber yards. They can order much more than Lowes can. We have a great place here in Texas called Resdoor. They can custom make doors but usually order the door from some manufacturer and they pre-hang them in their shop.

 

[Dirtydan69]

Lots of good advice here.

I had the pleasure of rehanging, jamb was split in numerous places, this 42” x 96” exterior oak door last week.

 

[yeldogt]

#1 - indeed mutually exclusive. I have had good luck sourcing NOS USA made Stanley on eBay. The old USA made stuff was great. I concur with above -- Emtek makes a nice product at better prices than Baldwin. Hager is also good -- but, again not cheap. The older Baldwin was also good and you can still find some of that on e-bay as well.

When I did rehabs: Ordering interior doors w/ three on a door and a step up from regular got you a nice product and long life -- forget using two as in the old days. The problem -- inside residential typically was a smaller hinge and did not have ball bearing -- they just don't hold up today like they did before. Need three.

Anything custom is very expensive -- even the semi custom MDF stuff from HD is $600-700 and not all that nice. It may be worth looking at an Arch salvage place for the doors .. you can drop 2k+ in an instant for decent nothing special interior doors -- real wood exterior are way over 4k w/ hardware. It's crazy how it adds up

 

[Marctrees]

I have never had any problem with 3 standard basic hinges on any interior door.

What problems... specifically.. are you having?

Do you have something atypical like solid oak 9' plus doors?

Marc

 

[Dirtydan69]

I have never had any problem with 3 standard basic hinges on any interior door.

Marc

Same here. do them all the time.

Do you have something atypical like solid oak 9' plus doors?

Marc

That 42x96 I did had four 4.5" ball bearing hinges.

 

[captaindiode]

I bought some Deltana residential hinges with ball bearings. The quality was good and they were not real expensive either.

https://deltana.net/catalog/steel-s.../110_3-12x-3-12x-58-radius-hinge-ball-bearing

I missed the part about the early 1950s. They have solid brass square corner hinges as well with different finials available:

https://deltana.net/catalog/solid-brass-hinges-and-finials/viewing/finials

You can order from https://www.doorhardwarecenter.com

 

[aabirdman]

Try Jim at Crown Molding and Door in Corona, Cali. I don't know how to insert a hyperlink or I would.

 

[yeldogt]

Even the USA hinges 40+ years ago on production hollow doors were plated steel -- eventually they would grind and leave dark dust .. put them on a solid door and it was quicker.

We switched out all the hinges at our beach house two summers back -- the better half wanted all chrome hardware. Even though I upgraded to a better hinge when the place was built in 2000 -- it was still not as thick as the hinge I bought first as a replacement. I did spend the time on the two front doors making the new BB hinges fit -- they needed replacement anyway .. but doing all the interior doors to fix the better hinges was not going to happen. I sent them back and went with a $10 hinge -- I had 15 doors to do with three each.