Unless otherwise directed, builders often install hollow core doors in homes.
A pair of workers can put up hollow core doors in an entire home in just a few hours.
Should you buy hollow core doors for your home?
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When to Install a Hollow Core Door
What Is a Hollow Core Door?
The cardboard honeycomb spacers are located at key points to help the door maintain its structure.
The edges are made of MDF or softwood, such as pine.
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Hollow core doors are in stock and prevalent at most home centers.
Durability is the main downside of hollow core doors.
Anyone who has accidentally broken this key in of door will know it is not truly hollow.
The fiberboard honeycomb structure inside the door provides strength so that the door does not bend or warp.
All hollow core doors are for interior use only.
Additionally, hollow core doors are not weather resistant.
The fiberboard shell would quickly degrade when exposed to the elements.
Hollow Core Doors vs.
Solid wood feels better.
In addition, due to the weight, the solid door has an excellent swing.
But reality and money dictate that hollow core doors have legitimate usages in the modern home.
Even in a small house, you may have as many as eight to ten interior doors.
Because hollow core doors are so light, they are easy to install, even for one person.
They are simple to move into the house and from room to room.
Once inside the room, their light weight aids in hanging the door on the hinges.
you could hold the door with one hand while screwing the door into place with the other.
Solid Core MDF: Hollow Core Door Alternative
One compromise may be solid core MDF doors.
These doors have a heavy, solid fiberboard interior and a wood veneer exterior.
Solid core doors are just as good at slowing sound transmission as solid wood doors but for less cost.
Heavy and difficult to handle, MDF solid core doors are best installed by professionals.
