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•Entry doors are decorative exterior doors, often with glass panels set in a border of brass caming.
•Slab doors are the door alone, as distinguished from prehung doors which are sold with jamb,
hinges, trim and threshold attached.
•Prehung doors are sold as a package with the door, jamb, hinges, and trim already assembled.
•Brick mold (also called stucco mold) is the casing around each side and head on the exterior side of
an exterior door. Prehung doors are sold either with or without brick mold.
•Crossbuck doors have a raised X design in the bottom half of the door.
•Bar (café) doors are familiar to everyone who has seen a Western movie.
•Ventilating doors include a window that can be opened.
•Fire doors carry a fire rating and are designed to meet building code requirements for specialized
occupancies, such as hotel rooms or dormitories. Code also requires that fire doors be used between a
house and an attached garage, and that an automatic door closer is installed.
•Bi-fold doors on closets fold in half when open, revealing nearly the full interior.
•Bypass closet doors slide left or right, never revealing more than one-half of the interior.