I am building a barrier free house. I want to use exterior doors that have no thresholds. Two of the doors are under porch roofs. The supplier I want will not warrantee doors if I remove the tresholds. Any suggeations on companies who manufacture doors for barrier free homes? I am hoping for a nine light over two panel configuration.
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National Guard Products, Pemko, and a few others make something called an "automatic door bottom" which drops down from the door as it is closing. Some are surface mounted, others are concealed in the door. Besides that, there should be plenty of threshold options for wheelchair accessibility from those same manufacturers. Check with your local architectural hardware distributors.
Why do you need a warranty on a door? Cut off the threshold and be done with it. Get one of the fancy automatic weatherstrips for the bottom.
I'm really hazy on this, but I believe that barrier free doors are mounted lower. The subflooring and possibly part of the framing is lower at the door opening so a weather seal can be maintained without the elevated threshhold. I'm sorry I can't help you with the brand search.
Wow what a lot of great ideas. Thanks all for your help. You a great solution that will work well.
You want to put one of these on the bottom of your door. Call Pemko to figure out which one
http://www.pemko.com/index.cfm?event=products.productListing&searchName=Lookup+by+Category&openFilter=loadCategorySearch&ratingIds=&categoryId=894&subcategoryId=917&productMaterialId=
I use commercial sills on barrier free entries. They are low profile ones like you have probably seen in supermarkets etc. My lumberyard stocks several styles. The door comes pre-hung without a sill. You have to install it after the flooring is down.