ABSTRACT
It is important to understand the disparity in the treatment of doors, casework, and millwork. The allocation of work for these topic areas is dramatically different, despite the similarity of these work tasks. There are reasons for these disparities, primarily dealing with union jurisdictions and whether the finish is applied in the shop or in the field. The industry standards have developed individually for each of the different elements of work. These will be described in items five to seven, as follows. 5. Doors, including hollow metal doors, wood doors, coiling doors, rolling
doors, and large stage doors, that are scheduled to have a painted finish, will be primed at the factory by the respective door subcontractor. The finish painting is done in the field by the painting subcontractor. Conversely, the doors scheduled for a stained or transparent finish will have the finish applied in the factory by the door subcontractor themselves. This standard practice has developed in the industry because factory-applied stained and transparent finishes on doors are of higher quality than field finishing. The factory provides controlled shop conditions where the finish work can be done efficiently and to a higher quality standard. Since wood doors are shipped in a finished state, protection of the doors is particularly important once the doors arrive on site. Patching a stained door finish will invariably leave a blemish on the final product, so proper protection will avoid the need for any remedial surface repairs.
