Doors Dictionary

Oak interior doors and interior french doors add a touch of class and elegance to the interior of your home. There is a very wide range of oak internal doors available for you to choose from in traditional to contemporary styles. The range includes glazed internal doors or framed doors with solid panels or a combination of both to produce oak panel interior doors and oak glazed interior doors. The solid panel can be flat or raised and fielded type. Also popular are veneered flush doors with or without glass panels that provide a modern image. 

These oak doors are available is an unfinished state for you to apply the finishing touch yourself OR if you want a first class look you can as a optional extra purchase the doors prefinished to whatever colour you choose. 

Advantages of prefinished doors 

• Finish is applied in a controlled factory environment
• High quality smooth finish
• After the door fitting the job is complete – no staining or painting required

A few examples of oak internal doors

Engineered Wooden Doors 

Solid oak interior doors  are really a thing of the past. These days most manufacturers make hardwood door products that incorporate a lesser quality wood or hollow core. The core is then overlaid with either oak or other veneer. As a result expensive and rare timbers such as oak are being used more wisely. This process of making doors is known as ‘Engineered’. 

Wood like all living things can be affected by changes in environmental conditions. Timbers susceptibility to movement does not stop even after the tree is cut down and machine into wooden products. Doors especially those made from solid wood can from time to time swell and contract due to changes in the environment. These changes can cause the door to warp and twist and often become ill fitting. The door then usually requires planning and adjusting to make it fit better. 

For this reason and the need to preserve timber stocks the engineered hardwood doors were devised. The majority of oak veneer interior doors made today are engineered type. They consist of a lesser quality wood core and faced with higher quality wood veneers such as oak. Instead of using wood some manufacturers use a high density fibre board (HDF) as the core of the door. This material would be used in higher quality white oak interior doors for example. Engineered doors are less prone to swelling, warping and twisting and remain stable. Panelled type doors are made in a similar way producing engineered stiles, rails and panels. 

The engineering process not only produced doors that are stable, good quality but are also affordable. They are also offered as internal fire doors.

Below are core example of engineered doors:

Core detail of engineered door with flat panel

Core detail of engineered door with raised and fielded panel

Available door sizes 

All door styles are generally available in the following sizes: 

The door thickness can be either 35 mm (1³/₈”) or 40 mm (1⁵/₈”)  

A lovely example of oak interior French doors with side screens

If these doors are beyond your budget try reading our article on cheap interior doors or white interior doors.

Further information on internal doors can be found at doors interior options.

You may now want to read about an engineered oak front door.

The choice is yours……