Treatment and maintenance of (Real)doors.

Follow the instructions for the treatment of the doors as applicable for you as laid out below. We recommend to ask your painter or paint supplier to advise you on the products to use.

- Make sure the relative air humidity where the door is stored is not higher or lower as normal, otherwise don’t store it there till the air humidity is stabilized (normal) .

- For the doors that are factory primed, ground paint only has to be applied to untreated areas, for example caused by mounting the door .

External doors Merbau lacquered:

Preparations before mounting:

- Clean the door and sand it slightly in the direction of the wood grain.

- Any uneven or damaged area's can be filled with a woodfiller for example Polyfilla woodflex exterior in the same wood color.

- Paint the door with 3 to 4 layers of ground paint, till a total dry layer thickness of 110 µm is achieved (also lock holes etc.) on all 6 sides.

Finish painting after mounting:

- Within 8 days after mounting finish the paintwork:

- Sand the whole door lightly.

- Finish painting the door in 2 layers with Gloss or Satin finishing paint on all 6 sides.

External doors Merbau painted:

Preparations before mounting:

- Clean the door and sand it slightly.

- Paint the door with 3 to 4 layers of ground paint, until a total dry layer thickness of 110 µm is achieved (also lock holes etc.) on all 6 sides.

Finish painting after mounting:

- Within 8 days after mounting finish the paintwork:

- Sand the whole door.

- any uneven or damaged area's can be filled for example with: Polyfilla woodflex exterior.

- Paint the door with a ground layer on all 6 sides (also lockholes and glass beads).

- Finish painting the door in 1 or 2 layers with Gloss or Satin finishing paint on all 6 sides.

Internal doors painted:

Preparations before mounting:

- Clean the door and sand it.

- any uneven or damaged area's can be filled for example with: Timbernate waterbased woodfiller.

- Paint the door with 2 to 3 layers of ground paint, until a total dry layer thickness of 80 µm is achieved (also lock holes etc.).

- Make sure the relative air humidity where the door is mounted is normal, otherwise wait till the air humidity is stabilized (normal).

Finish painting after mounting:

- Within 8 days after mounting finish the paintwork:

- Sand the whole door lightly.

- Finish painting the door in 1 or 2 layers with Gloss or Satin finishing paint on all 6 sides.

Maintenance external doors:

Check the paintwork annually and if there is any damage, paint those to the original paint layer thickness.

Doors painted in a light colour, repaint them after 3 years.

Doors painted in dark colours or lacquered, repaint them after 2 years.

Maintenance internal doors:

Check the paintwork annually and if there are damages, paint them to the original paint layer thickness.

Repainting doors:

- Remove paint layers that are not good any more, the layers that are correct can be cleaned and lightly sanded.

- When there is wood visible, ground paint the wood with a minimum of 2 layers.

- Finish painting the door in 1 or 2 layers with Gloss or Satin finishing paint on all 6 sides.

Warranty:

The doors are supplied with 6 years factory warranty, as long as the customer has met the description of processing.

Excluded of warranty:

- Any errors or damage that could have been noticed at the delivery of the door.

- Damages incurred by not using, treating or mounting the door properly.

- The so called “bleeding” of doors.

- Colour or structure differences of solid wooden doors have to be considered as normal.

- The inside of the door looking different from the outside.

- Small dents or cracks.

- Doors painted in dark colours can have/get small cracks of drying.

- The use of plywood as an inside finish in some door models.

- Warping or bending of the door if not more than 8mm.

- Doors with a size of 2400x1050mm and over.

- If more than 10mm is sawn or sanded of any side of the door.

- If a heating source is mounted within 100cm of the door.

- If the humidity content of the door is over 16%.

- If the door has not been maintained properly.

- small area's with woodfiller for smooth finishing / repairs on doors that will be painted.

- Water damage because there is not enough sealant / paint at the glass/door connection.

- Any damage or bending of a door when paintwork is not properly protecting it (on all 6 sides as well as lock holes, etc.).