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Glossary of Door Shop Terms
Active: In paired or double doors, the
hinged door leaf which is primarily operable.
Air Infiltration: Air passing through a door
system when the door is under pressure,
usually from wind.
Annealed Glass: Regular glass which has
not been heat strengthened or tempered.
Most window glass is annealed.
Astragal: The post-type fitting on the latchside edge of one of a set of paired or double
doors, which covers the margin between
doors when they are closed, and which
houses or contains the weatherstrip.
Backset: For locating a machined hole,
recess, or mortise, the distance from an
edge or surface to the center or edge of the
recess, hole or mortise.
Ball-bearing Hinge: A heavier-duty hinge
than the standard hinge, with bearings supporting the pivots. Ball-bearing hinges are
usually used for heavy doors that will be in
commercial or industrial use.
Barbed: An adjective that describes the feature of a part which inserts into a slot, and
which has surface features that enable it to
stay firmly inserted into the slot.
Boot: A term used for the rubber part at the
bottom or top end of an astragal, which beds
the astragal end and seals between the end
and the door frame or sill.
Boss, Screw Boss: A feature of a part
which enables the fastening of a screw into
the feature, thereby allowing assembly of
the part with another. Screw bosses are
common features of molded plastic lite
frames and extruded aluminum door sills.
Box-Framed: In door and sidelite assemblies, a term used to differentiate door and
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and the width of the door or sidelite panels.
Box-framed doors are joined to box-framed
sidelites.
Brad: A small nail with a small head, usually
used to fasten small trim and moldings.
Brickmould: A molding, used to trim the
outside edge of a door frame. Brickmould is
most often applied to prehung units.
Buck: A term usually used in masonry construction to describe a door frame or a subframe in a masonry opening, around which
a steel door frame wraps and is fastened.
Butt: A type of hinge commonly used to
assemble doors. Butt hinges are often referred to as simply butts.
Butyl: An organic compound, used in the
door business as a sealant. It is naturally
black, and is heated and pumped through
nozzles, or pumped cold.
Came, Caming: Formed metal stripping,
usually made of brass or zinc plated steel,
used between cut-glass pieces to assemble
the pieces into a decorative glass panel.
Caming is soldered at joints to bond the
glass assembly together.
Carpet Shim: A spacer block used under
a door sill to raise the sill an appropriate
amount if carpet is used, so the door panel
clears the carpet when opened.
Casing: A horizontal or vertical molding,
which accents or trims edges of doors and
windows to the surrounding walls. Casing
also covers or accents intermediate posts.
Caulk: To fill or close seams or crevices in
order to make watertight, airtight, etc.
Clad: Provided with a facing or jacket which
works as a protection against weather, and
provides a finished appearance. Cladding
may be painted metal, plastic, or a heavy
coating applied by the manufacturer.

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Clear Jambs: Natural wood door frames,
without paint or primer applied, and which
are made of full-length pieces of stock, without joints or knots.
Closed-Cell Foam: Sponge-like material,
usually used in gaskets and weatherstripping, which compresses into joints, but
absorbs little water.
Closer Block: An inside reinforcement, usually placed across the top edge of a door, to
enable firm fastening of self-closing hardware to the door.
Continuous Sill: A sill used for a type of
door and sidelite unit in which the unit has
fullwidth top and bottom frame parts, and
an internal post or posts separating sidelites
from the door panel.
Core: The center section or part of a door or
door part.
Corner Plug, Corner Seal Pad: A small
part, usually made of resilient material, used
to seal water which gets beyond the bottom
ends of weatherstrip in doors, from getting
between the door edge and the jambs, adjacent to the bottom gasket.
Cove Molding: A small molded wood lineal
piece, usually formed with a scooped face,
used to trim and fasten a panel of some type
into a frame.
Crossbore: A large through-hole, near the
edge of a door panel, usually 2-1/8 inch in
diameter, which houses a cylinder lockset or
deadbolt latch.
Cylinder Lock, Cylindrical Lock: Lock
hardware which mounts into a door which
has been prepared with a bored hole or
holes through the face, and into the edge.
Dado: A machined or sawn groove, across
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Deadbolt: A latch used to secure a door
closed, the latch being driven from the door
into a receiver in the jamb or frame.
Deflection: The distance a door has moved
away from its closed and latched position,
usually measured at the top unsupported
latch-side corner. Deflection may be caused
by wind pressure or heat. Deflection is temporary. The door returns to position when
the force is removed.
Desiccant: Moisture absorbing material
used inside the spacer in an insulated glass
assembly, so as to control moisture levels
and prevent moisture from frosting or condensing on the inside glass surfaces of the
insulated unit.
Doorlite: An assembly of frame and glass
panel, which when fitted to a door in a
formed or cut-out hole, creates a door with a
glass opening.
Double-Glazed: Outfitted with two panes of
glass with a sealed airspace between.
Drip Strip: In exterior doors, a fitting used
across the outside face of the door adjacent
to the bottom edge, to divert cascading rain
away from the door bottom edge and away
from the door/sill joint.
Drywall Opening: A rectangular opening
in a wall, usually an interior wall, prepared
to the size necessary to receive a pre-hung
assembly.
DSB Glass: A term no longer used in
the glass business, which meant “Double
Strength, ‘B’ quality.” DSB glass when furnished by Therma-Tru in doors, is 1/8 inch
thick, single pane and not insulated.
Dummy Cylinder: A lock without a latch,
typically used for the passive door panel of
a double door unit, so that the hardware appears equal to that used on the active panel.

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Edge Bore: The hole bored through the
edge of a door to allow the latch to pass
through, into the strike.
Electric Strike: A mechanism which allows
a switch to open the latch of a door.
End Seal Pad: A closed-cell foam piece,
about 1/16 inch thick, in the shape of a sill
profile, fastened between the sill and the
jamb to seal the joint.
Escutcheon: A stamped decorative plate,
usually circular to trim the shaft of a door
knob or deadbolt latch, to trim the opening
where the shaft or latch adjoins the face of a
door.
Etched Glass: Glass used for doorlites on
which a decorative pattern is engraved by
means of chemical action or mechanical
sand-blasting.
Extension Unit: A framed fixed door panel,
with a full-sized lite of glass, field-installed or
shop-installed adjacent to a two-panel patio
door, to make the door unit into a threepanel door.
Faceplate: The plated or solid metal trim
piece, usually about 1 x 2-1/4 inches,
housed flush into the edge of a door,
through which projects the latch of a passage lock or deadbolt.
Finger Joint: A way of joining short sections
of board stock together, end to end to make
longer stock. Door and frame parts are often made using finger-jointed pine stock.
Fire Door: A door of a construction type
which has been tested to contain the spread
of fire from one room or occupancy area to
another. Fire doors are listed and labeled
to show their ratings in terms of time, i.e.,
20-Minute, 90-Minute, etc.
Flush-Glazed: A type of glazed door which
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or set down from the face of the surrounding
door.
Foam: Rigid or flexible plastic, light in
weight and cellular in structure, used in door
construction. Rigid foam is used as the insulating and binding core for doors. Flexible
foam is sometimes used as gasket.
Foot Bolt: A steel pin housed in a door
bottom edge or astragal, with a latch mechanism, which can be driven down to project
into a receiver socket or hole in the floor or
threshold, to better secure the door when
closed.
Frame: In door assemblies, the perimeter
members at the top and sides, to which the
door is hinged and latched. See jamb.
Gain: A notch across the end of a board or
wood part.
Galvanized: An adjective used to describe
steel which has been zinc-coated. Galvanized steel is resistant to corrosion.
Gasket: A strip of flexible material which in
an assembly of parts, prevents air and water
from penetrating or passing through joints
between parts.
Glazing: The elastic material used to seal
glass to a surrounding frame.
Grille: For doors with glass lites or inserts,
a removable face-mounted assembly of thin
wood or plastic pieces, which when in place,
gives the lite or insert a patterned multi-pane
look.
Grooved Glass: Glass which has been
decorated with abrasively-routed recesses.
Grooving can give a single piece of glass a
multi-paned look.
Handing: A term which describes or determines the direction of swing of a door w hen
opening.

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Head Bolt: A steel pin housed in a door top
edge or astragal. See foot bolt.

door panel is opened, the panel swings into
the building.

Head, Head Jamb: The horizontal top
frame member of a door assembly.

Jamb: A vertical perimeter frame part of a
door system.

Hinge: An assembly of metal plates and a
cylindrical metal pin, which when fastened to
a door edge and to a door frame, allow the
door to swing or rotate in its frame.

Jamb Jack: A fastener device for fixing a
door frame to a wall structure, which allows
the space or margin between the frame and
the structure opening, to be varied by turning the fastener screw.

Hinge Stile: The full-length vertical edge of
a door, at the side or edge of the door which
fastens to its frame with hinges.
Horned Sill: A sill which has been coped
or cut in such a way at its ends, so that the
sill projects across the outside face of the
bottoms of door jambs, allowing the bottom
ends of the brickmould pieces to butt and
join to the top of the sill.
IG Unit: Abbreviation for insulated glass
unit.
Impact Doors: Doors manufactured with an
internal reinforcement (steel plate) to comply
with Coastal Building Code (Impace Resistance) requirements.
Impact Glass: Glass lites in either clear
or decorative designs manufactured with a
reinforcement film laminated between two
layers of glass to comply with windborne
Coastal Building requirements.
Inactive: A term for a door panel fixed in its
frame. Inactive door panels are not hinged
and are not operable.
Insulated Glass, Insulating Glass: A glass
assembly of multiple full-lite pieces, separated by a perimeter spacer and sealed as
a unit. Insulated glass in residential doors
is usually made with two thicknesses of 1/8
inch glass, separated by an airspace up to
3/4 inch thick.
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Jamb Stop: In exterior door frames, the
molded-in rebate surface of a frame member against which door panels close and
seal.
Kerf: A thin slot cut into a part with a molder
or saw blade. Weatherstrip is inserted into
kerfs cut into door jambs.
King Stud: In a wood-framed rough opening, the stud which runs full height from floor
plate to ceiling plate, against which trimmer
stud attaches.
Knuckle: The feature of a hinge where the
hinge leaf is cut for two or three projections
which wrap and form a barrel or socket for
the hinge pin.
Laminate: A thin face of wood or plastic,
adhesively bonded to a core or substrate,
which makes up the decorative, wear or
weatherable surface of the part.
Latch: A moveable, usually spring-loaded
pin or bolt, which is part of a lock mechanism, and engages a socket or clip on a
door jamb, retaining the door closed.
Leaf: A term which can apply to a door or
hinge and which defines a part of the assembly which can swing on a pivot. Butt
hinges have two leaves.
Lite: An assembly of glass and a surrounding frame, which is assembled to a door, or
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Lock Block: A rectangular block of wood
or other solid material, placed inside a door
assembly at the lock side edge, which reinforces the assembly when the lock hardware is installed.
Lock Bore: For cylindrical locksets, the
large through hole, usually 2-1/8 inches in
diameter, bored near the door panel’s lock
edge, into which the lock mechanism is
placed and installed.
Lock Stile: In insulated door assemblies,
the full-length part, usually wood, which
makes up the lock edge of the door panel.
In wood stile and rail doors, the full length
wood piece, 4 to 6 inches wide, at the lock
edge of the door.

the edge of a door.
Mull: A short term for mullion. Used occasionally as a verb to describe the joining of
two door units together, or the joining of a
door to a sidelite unit.
Mulled: An adjective describing a door and
sidelite unit which has been made up by
edge-joining two framed units together.
Mullion: A post or divider which runs from
sill to frame top in a multi-panel door, door,
or door and sidelite assembly. In stile and
rail doors, the vertical wood parts which
separate panels.

Multiple Extension Unit: In patio door assemblies, a fixed door panel in a separate
Low-E Glass: Glass which has been facto- frame, edge-joined to a patio door unit to
ry coated with a thin layer of material, nearly add another glass panel to the installation.
clear, which acts to absorb and reflect heat
Multi-Point Hardware: Any hardware that
and light energy.
has multiple locking points which simultaneLSL: Abbreviation for laminated strand
lumber. LSL is used in the construction and
building materials industry as a more cost
effective structual support material versus
dimensional lumber.
LVL: Abbreviation for laminated veneer
lumber. LVL is a manufactured wood product, in which veneer layers are adhesively
bonded into a layup of multiple thicknesses.
LVL is made to specified strengths and is
used for structural purposes.
Miter: An angled cut across the end of a lineal part, usually done to join with a similarlycut part at a corner.
Mortise: A recess cut into the surface or
edge of a part, usually for the purpose of
housing hardware such as hinges and lock
parts.
Mortise-Type Lock: A lockset which usually has a rectangular-shaped mechanism,
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ously lock into place through the action of
a continuous travel drive rail activated by a
handle.

Muntins: In glazed lite assemblies, thin vertical and horizontal divider bars, which give
the lite a multi-paned look. Muntins may
be part of lite frames, and on the outside
surface of the glass, or assembled between
glass in insulated glass units.
Nailing Fin: A feature of some windows
and patio doors which permits installation
and fastening to a rough opening by nails or
screws driven through the fin at the top and
side edges of the unit, into the surrounding
frame of the opening.
NFRC: Initials for National Fenestration
Ratings Council, an industry association
which sets standards for testing, rating, and
labeling doors and windows with heat transmission and energy information.
Night Latch: A lever or knob-actuated bolt

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for fastening a door more securely at night.
Nosing: An edge piece, usually molded with
a rounded face or corner, which runs the
length of an assembly. Oak adjustable sills
have a nosing part along the floor line at the
inside edges.
NRP Hinge: An abbreviation for a hinge
with a non-removable pivot pin. NRP hinges
are used when exterior doors swing out, as
a security feature. The fixed pins make it
impossible to remove a door by driving out
pivot pins.
Open-Cell Foam: A foam material which
has passageways between cells. Open-cell
foam will absorb and retain water, because
the water will penetrate deeply inside the
foam.
Outswing: An exterior door assembly in
which the door panel swings outside the
building.
Panic-proof Lock: A lock and latch device
which permits a door to be opened outward
by pressure being applied to a bar mounted
across the inside face of the door.
Passage Lock: A lockset which will retain a
door closed, but which cannot be locked.
Passive: In a double or two-panel door
assembly, the door which usually remains
closed and fixed by bolts at top and bottom.
The other door panel is used for regular
passage.
Plant: A decorative molding applied to the
surface of a flush door, to give the appearance of a raised-molding design.
Plates: In residential wood-frame construction, the horizontal parts of a wall frame
running atop the subfloor, and at the ceiling
atop the stud ends, on which framing from
above bears.
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a plastic material used to make molded or
extruded parts.
R-Value: A number which describes in
relative terms, the ability of a material or
assembly to resist the flow or transmittance
of heat. Assemblies or materials with high Rvalues are better insulators than those with
lower R-values.
Rabbet, Rebate: A rectangular recess cut
or formed along the long edge of a part,
usually a wood part.
Rail: In insulated door panels, the part,
made of wood or a composite material,
which runs inside the assembly, across the
top and bottom ends, and makes up the top
or bottom edge. In stile and rail doors, horizontal pieces at top and bottom edges, and
at intermediate points, which connect and
frame between the stiles.
Ramp: In a sill or threshold, the horizontal
face which is sloped.
Rebate: See rabbet.
Reveal: The offset or margin between
edges of parts.
Riser: A term which describes the part of
an adjustable sill which can be moved up or
down by turning adjusting screws.
Riveted-Pin Hinge: See NRP hinge.
Rough Opening: A structurally-framed
opening in a wall which receives a door unit
or window.
Saddle: In adjustable sills, another term
for riser. Also, a shop-applied label applied
around the corner or edge of a door, which
provides identification and installation instructions.
Safety Glass: Glass which when broken,
shatters into small pieces without sharp
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Screen Track: A feature of a door sill or
frame head which provides a housing and
runner for rollers, to allow a screen panel to
slide from side to side in the door.

Spacer, Glass Spacer: A lineal part with
rectangular cross section, running along the
perimeter edges, between the glass pieces
of an insulating glass unit.

Scribe: A mark for a cut which has been
made by using a template or pattern.

Spread Mullion: Using two back to back
jambs and blocking on a continuous sill to
increase the mullion width up to 3” to meet
a variety of rough opening requirements.

Sealant: Elastic material pumped or troweled into a joint to prevent water penetration.
Self-Cased: A steel frame for which the
edge detail finishes to the surrounding wall,
without the need for additional applied casing molding.
Self-Locating Hinge: A hinge with indexing
or locating tabs to aid in exact placement
against a door edge.
Shim: A thin piece of material used between parts of an assembly, to change and
fix the distance between parts, when parts
are fastened.
Sidelite: A fixed narrow panel, installed
next to a door panel, for decorative purposes.
Sidelites almost always contain glass lites.
Sill Saddle: See riser.
Slide Bolt: The part of an astragal assembly which, by means of moving latches at
tops and bottoms of astragals, places bolts
into frame heads and sills, for fixing passive
door panels closed.
Smoke and Draft Door: Where building
codes define use, a fire door which has
been rated for 20-Minute fire resistance,
and which does not need test certification
as having passed the hose stream portion
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STC: Abbreviation for sound transmission coefficient. A value which describes
in relative terms the ability of a door to
dampen the passage of noise. Doors with
higher STC values permit less noise to pass
through.
Stile: In insulated door panels, the fulllength parts, usually wood, which make up
the long edges. In stile and rail doors, the
vertical edge parts.
Strike: A metal part with a hole or recess
for receiving a door latch, also with a curved
or ramped face so a spring-loaded latch
contacts it when closing. Strikes are fit into
mortises in door jambs or mullions, and
screw-fastened.
Style: A number or name defining a door
design or configuration.
Subfloor: The concrete or wood floor
surface lying under the finished floor. Prehung door assemblies are installed atop the
subfloor.
Substrate: The base or core material in an
assembly of parts. In sills, the full length
wood or composite part of the sill, visible
only from the bottom side, or ends.
Tempered Glass: Glass sheet which has
been strengthened by heat processing.
Tempered glass when broken, shatters into
small pieces without sharp edges. See
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Template: A pattern or jig used to machinecut a precise hole or recess into a door or
frame part.
Thermal Break: A feature of a door or
frame assembly which separates metal or
glass exposed to outside temperatures, from
coming into contact and transmitting heat to
or from inside-exposed parts.
Threshold: Another term for sill. The horizontal part of a door assembly, fixed under
the door panel and bearing on the floor.
Tinted Glass: Glass made with a green,
gray or bronze tint, so as to reduce light
transmittance.
TPE: Abbreviation for thermoplastic elastomer. TPEs are used to make weatherstripping and gasketing parts.
Transom: A framed glass assembly
mounted atop a door assembly. Transoms
are rectangular in shape or have curved or
arched tops. One design of a curved top
transom has the shape of a half-ellipse.
Transport Clip: A steel piece used to temporarily fasten a prehung door assembly
closed for handling and shipping, which
maintains the door panel’s proper position in
the frame.
Trimmer Stud: In a wood-framed rough
opening, the stud or framing member which
runs vertically from the subfloor to and supporting the structural header member, into
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Triple-Glazed: An insulated glass assembly
made of three thicknesses of glass, with air
spaces between the outer and inner thicknesses.
U-Value: A number which describes in
specific terms, the ability of a material or
assembly to transmit heat from outside to
inside surfaces. Assemblies with lower Uvalues transmit less heat than those with
higher values. See R-value. A U-value is
the inverse of an R-value.
Urethane: A plastic material made by reacting two polymers.
Veneer: A thin film or facing, adhesively
bonded to a core or substrate, which makes
up the exposed and decorative face of an
assembly.
Warp: A permanent curvature or deviation
from straightness, which can be induced in
a part or assembly by a load or force, or by
exposure to heat or moisture.
Water Penetration: The unwanted passage
of water through a door system.
Wired Glass: Glass made for use in fire
doors, which has embedded wires which
bind the glass, and permit the glass to remain monolithic when exposed to fire.
Yellow Zinc Dichromate: A brass-look plating to steel parts, which is highly corrosionresistant.

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Display Door Cautions and Policies
Cautions and policies concerning resale and shipment of all display doors.

General: Display doors are just that . . . they are made specifically for display purposes
only. They are not intended for use in an exterior, exposed-to-weather setting.
Because we manufacture them specifically for interior, display use only, components,
adhesives and assembly may be different from regular production doors.

Conditions of resale: When a display door is to be resold by you as a regular exterior
door, no Therma-Tru product warranty is applicable.

Classic-Craft and Fiber-Classic Finishing*: The finishes used on display doors are not
intended for exterior use.

Smooth-Star and Steel Door Finishing*: The paints used on display doors are not intended for exterior use.

*However finished, whether exterior clear coated or painted, the “no Therma-Tru
warranty” condition applies to all Display Doors used as an Exterior Door.

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