Doors
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Listings
Meek’s Building Centers
Tom Buckner
3231 N. Glenstone
Springfield, MO 65803
Phone: 417-889-1929
Meek’s carries the FSC Certified line of Emerald doors by Masonite as well as our own proprietary line of low VOC ProGuard doors, which are factory finished at our plant in Lockwood, MO to ensure efficiency and jobsite waste reduction.
Door Information
A good exterior door will fit tightly and use the best available weather-stripping technology and insulating materials. The most energy-efficient doors (as much as 5x more efficient than wooden doors) are made of fiberglass or wood-clad steel, or painted steel, filled with a core of polyurethane foam. These doors are typically sealed with a magnetic strip like that on a refrigerator and they need no further weather-stripping if they are well installed. Even doors that contain some recycled steel or fiberboard have a greater insulating value than typical wooden doors.
Another alternative would be to use doors with wheat-straw cores which contain no added urea-formaldehyde and often use wood that is FSC-certified. Although wheat-straw core doors are sold at more of a premium than typical doors, they are one of the most sustainable choices on the market. If solid wood doors are preferred, first try salvaging a wooden door from local architectural salvage companies. If you cannot find a used door that is right for your project, choose a new product that uses agriboard, bamboo, medium density fiberboard (MDF), or sustainably harvested veneers for its face or panel material.
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