Doors for Builders has some very expensive doors. Real wood, they say.
ETO doors has some douglas fir doors that look similar to IsoDoor Basic. It looks like you could order the door with exterior jambs, which could be fitted with insulation. Looks like the door and jamb would be 1/3 to 1/2 the cost of the Isodoor. Unless you could duplicate SIS's seals and threshold, it wouldn't perform quite as well, though. And the prices shown don't include custom design either. On close examination, these do not appear to be true rail and stile doors, nor look as sharp as the IsoDoor Basic. The description says "Engineered Solid Wood" which means MDF is likely a part (possibly major part). Some of their doors do say "Solid Wood" fwiw. It doesn't seem like you could make a solid core door out of 100% real wood and sell it for $200 and make a profit. Only way to do it would be to start with a MDF door and add very thin veneer.
Wenger makes solid steel acoustical doors. Minimum width is 3 feet (I need 30 inches). I probably don't have to ask how much they cost. I'd guess $4000 or more for the smallest one, plus delivery. That's pocket change when you are building a university music department building for which doors like this might be put on every professor's office.
ETO doors has some douglas fir doors that look similar to IsoDoor Basic. It looks like you could order the door with exterior jambs, which could be fitted with insulation. Looks like the door and jamb would be 1/3 to 1/2 the cost of the Isodoor. Unless you could duplicate SIS's seals and threshold, it wouldn't perform quite as well, though. And the prices shown don't include custom design either. On close examination, these do not appear to be true rail and stile doors, nor look as sharp as the IsoDoor Basic. The description says "Engineered Solid Wood" which means MDF is likely a part (possibly major part). Some of their doors do say "Solid Wood" fwiw. It doesn't seem like you could make a solid core door out of 100% real wood and sell it for $200 and make a profit. Only way to do it would be to start with a MDF door and add very thin veneer.
Wenger makes solid steel acoustical doors. Minimum width is 3 feet (I need 30 inches). I probably don't have to ask how much they cost. I'd guess $4000 or more for the smallest one, plus delivery. That's pocket change when you are building a university music department building for which doors like this might be put on every professor's office.
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