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Custom door maker in BR: UPDATE in OP w/ pic - went with Alpine and it looks great
Posted on 5/14/23 at 2:48 pm
Posted on 5/14/23 at 2:48 pm
I'm looking to have some custom french doors made for an office. It has an opening already but no doors and we would like to add some privacy so we can use it as a guest space when we have company.
Is there anyone in the BR area you'd recommend?
UPDATE: After getting several quotes, we went with Scott at Alpine Millworks and are thrilled with the end product. It still needs paint and handles, but he was a great price and offered installation (which our other quotes didn't offer/include). Thanks to Earthquake 88 for the recommendations.
Is there anyone in the BR area you'd recommend?
UPDATE: After getting several quotes, we went with Scott at Alpine Millworks and are thrilled with the end product. It still needs paint and handles, but he was a great price and offered installation (which our other quotes didn't offer/include). Thanks to Earthquake 88 for the recommendations.
This post was edited on 8/19/23 at 1:31 pm
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Posted on 5/14/23 at 5:08 pm to The Last Coco
Best Milworks off of Florida blvd. great craftsmanship. He will even take you for a walk around his shop which is massive.
He also makes his own glass for the the doors.
He also makes his own glass for the the doors.
Posted on 5/14/23 at 7:44 pm to KTShoe
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Best Milworks off of Florida blvd. great craftsmanship. He will even take you for a walk around his shop which is massive
Don’t go there. Best Deal has a nice big showroom and shop. He talks a big game, but his work is the worst in town. I work for one of the largest hardwood importers in the country. Been selling imported lumber for 30 yards. 70% of the imported hardwood millwork lumber sold into Louisiana is done by me. Probably visited every major millwork shop in the country. The Baton Rouge area are my largest volume buying customer base in the United States. And for the record, South Louisiana has some of the finest craftsmanship in the country concerning high end millwork. I’d go with Sun Millwork (Son), Tully Woodworks (Pete), Alpine Woodworks (Scott), United Millwork (Angie), T&L Forest Products (Kathy & Bao), Trimco Woodworks (Ed), or Highland Millworks (Nang). Best Deal Millwork is the absolute worst at building custom doors. They just needs to keep making glass and they are suspect at even accomplishing manufacturing that product properly. Most of those shops are Vietnamese owned and good at what they do. You got to trust me on this don’t go to Best Deal Millwork.
Posted on 5/14/23 at 7:57 pm to Earthquake 88
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Earthquake 88
Thank you. I really appreciate the input.
Posted on 5/14/23 at 9:59 pm to The Last Coco
Have used both Sun and Trimco and been happy with both.
Posted on 5/14/23 at 10:26 pm to The Last Coco
Pete and Chan @ Tully’s A+
Posted on 5/15/23 at 6:21 am to Earthquake 88
Every door I have got through Trimco always has a Louisiana Millworks tag. They do more installs and middle man work now.
Posted on 5/15/23 at 6:24 am to The Last Coco
Heritage MW - Dusty and Glenn
Posted on 5/15/23 at 12:34 pm to StrikeIndicator
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Pete and Chan @ Tully’s A+
I've used Pete for several "very custom" outdoor jobs and he's been excellent. He comes out himself and measure everything....also takes into account wood exapanding and shrinking based on the type of wood and what type of conditions it will be in. Not cheap, but very good and professional.
Posted on 5/16/23 at 10:21 am to JusTrollin
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Every door I have got through Trimco always has a Louisiana Millworks tag. They do more installs and middle man work now.
Ed has bought about $20,000 worth of mahogany from me in the last 4 weeks. His custom shop he bought years ago, the old Ming’s Millwork off Florida, is booming. Trimco does a lot of installs and various other things but their custom millwork shop builds excellent high end doors and shutters.
Posted on 5/16/23 at 10:32 am to The Last Coco
Years ago the Door Shop, a spin-off of Builders Center. Earthquake looks to know what he’s talking about.
I have a guy that’s made a couple for me. A good friend ordered a barn door with full glass in the middle.
We got the door to the house, the guy that measured it originally, measured wrong. I got my buddy to remake the door, using the inset glass.
Another friend had an etched glass front door. We removed the glass and made a new door, using the old etched glass.
I have a guy that’s made a couple for me. A good friend ordered a barn door with full glass in the middle.
We got the door to the house, the guy that measured it originally, measured wrong. I got my buddy to remake the door, using the inset glass.
Another friend had an etched glass front door. We removed the glass and made a new door, using the old etched glass.
Posted on 8/19/23 at 1:30 pm to The Last Coco
UPDATE: After getting several quotes, we went with Scott at Alpine Millworks and are thrilled with the end product. It still needs paint and handles, but he was a great price and offered installation (which our other quotes didn't offer/include). Thanks to Earthquake 88 for the recommendations.
Posted on 8/19/23 at 2:45 pm to The Last Coco
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offered installation
Probably pretty smart on his part. It could be the nicest built door in the world but if its installed poorly its going to reflect badly on him.
Nice looking door. Spanish cedar?
Posted on 8/19/23 at 6:09 pm to Turnblad85
Is that some kind of a center panel between the two doors?
Posted on 8/19/23 at 8:08 pm to Nawlens Gator
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Is that some kind of a center panel between the two doors
It's attached to the right side door and it prevents the other door from being pushed through the wrong way. I'm sure it has a specific name but I'm not sure what to call it.
ETA: what you're asking about is called the "astragal".
This post was edited on 8/19/23 at 8:26 pm
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