Entry Door Replacement in Wood Village, OR
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A Wood Village door call starts with a question: is the house site-built or manufactured? About one housing unit in four in the city, 435 of 1,605 in the census count, is in the category the census still labels "mobile home," and the 1970s is the largest build decade in Wood Village.
A manufactured home's front door is sold by a different measurement from a house door, hung on a different frame, and altered under a different set of rules, and each of those changes what the estimate says.
Sold by the hole
A site-built door is ordered by slab size, 36 by 80, and the prehung unit comes on a 4-9/16- or 6-9/16-inch jamb for a rough opening about 2 inches larger. A manufactured-home door is ordered by the rough opening itself; the catalog's own instruction is that "all mobile home door sizes are based on their rough opening size," the sizes step by 2 inches, and 32 by 76 and 34 by 76 are the common ones. The slab is 1-3/8 inches thick against a house door's 1-3/4. The unit comes prehung on a 4-inch or 6-inch jamb or an aluminum frame with an exterior flange, and it is set from outside, the flange bedded in putty tape and screwed through into the wall, rather than shimmed and nailed through the jamb. The usual front door is a combination unit, an inswing main door with a storm door attached; the usual rear door swings out and is sized by its lid, the exterior face that overlaps the frame and is larger than the inner pan, so measuring the inside face orders a door that is too small. All of it is built to the federal manufactured-housing standard the home was made under.
So a site-built prehung door bought for a 1970s double-wide usually doesn't fit. The opening on most of them is 32 or 34 wide and 76 tall, and a 36-by-80 unit does not go into that opening without cutting the wall.
In kind, or reframed
VResh writes a manufactured-home door in Wood Village one of two ways.
Replacement in kind is a manufactured-home door of the same rough-opening size, built to the federal standard, and set through the flange as the original was. Oregon's manufactured-dwelling rules exempt "replacement of equipment or accessories in kind" and "minor repairs with approved component parts" from a permit while still holding the work to the rules, and the city's own list exempts a like-for-like door replacement where no structural member is changed. Whether a particular door swap counts as replacement in kind is for the building department to say, and the question goes in with the estimate. The door that goes in is a current foam-filled steel-or-house-type combination unit in the same opening, and the wall is untouched.
A site-built prehung door in a reframed opening is an alteration to the structure of a manufactured dwelling. After the home's first sale, the permit for that comes from the local building department under the state's delegated program, with plans; the state's rule says the work must conform to the code the home was built under or the equivalent residential code, may not take the home out of compliance with the federal standard, and may need an engineer where structural components are altered, and Portland's permit page names a header cut as one that does. Wood Village lists "cutting a new window or door opening, or modifying an existing opening" as permit-required work and issues manufactured-home permits itself. VResh prices that job with the permit, the plans and the engineering in it, so the extra 4 inches of door are chosen with the paperwork in view.
The city's site-built houses, many of them from the same 1970s decade, take the door job the main entry door page describes, and no permit is needed for a like-for-like swap.
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Entry door questions from Wood Village, OR
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Before a Wood Village door estimate, VResh asks for the rough opening, the jamb width, the swing, and whether the home is site-built or manufactured. Call or text (503) 272-6436.