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Production Philosophy
Producing quality products in a timely manner drives our productions process. Valley Oak Cabinet Doors consistently leads the industry in lead times for producing quality components from select and better northern hardwoods. Valley Oak provides the same production process no matter what wood selection that you choose and all components are cut after we receive your order assuring consistent wood throughout. Our production process includes machine sanding both the front and backs of doors, panel profiles and outside edges. In addition we manually sand the face of all doors, drawer fronts and various profiles at 180 grit. Though our customers spend little or no time sanding, for optimal finish results we recommend you sand product to your final sanding standards.
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Solid Wood Product Selection Guide
1) Premium - Wood will be selected for optimum color for the specie selected. Color and grain matching will be done throughout the order. Mineral streaks on the face of the door will be less than 1/16" wide and 2" long. Mineral on machined areas will have less than 1/8" wide and 3" long.
2) Standard - This is the standard we have used in the past. Wood will be selected for color throughout the order having the natural characteristics of the wood specie ordered. Mineral allowed on the face will be less than 1/8" wide and 4" long. Slight variations in color and grain standard.
3) Factory - Wood used in this grade would not meet our Premium or STandard standards. All characteristics of the specie are allowable. Only pin knots will be allowed. Color and grain match is not considered in the manufacturing process.
4) Rustic - All characteristics of the wood selected is allowable. Knots used will be structurally sound and vary throughout each order.
5) Flat Panel - All 1/4" panels are AA grade veneer front and back with a MDF core. This provides a much better product to finish and helps eliminate the rattle found in plywood core doors.
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Doors
Standard doors will be constructed with 2¼" stile and rail using a 5/8" tongue and groove. Options to be square 100 series one arch 200 series, two arches are 300 Series.
Double panel doors are 4, 5, 6and 9 series
Panels are produced after the order has been placed, using random width boards glued together with standard wood glue pressed together with hydraulic pressure to assure constituent pressure along the length of the board, this helps to minimize warping. Frame stock is processed through a four sided molder in random lengths cut to size and the door is assembled in an automated clamping machine, wide belt sanded edged to size and finish sanded.
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Drawer Fronts
Drawer fronts are produced from solid wood cut to size and edged to profile specified. Fronts that are oversized will be made from glued up pieces as the door panels are. Raised panel drawer fronts are made with 1½" rails to make room for the raise on the panel, minimum sizes will apply.
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Drawer Boxes
Boxes are constructed with conventional dovetails using 5/8" solid wood sidewalls and 1/4" plywood bottoms inserted in sidewall dado, Options available are 1/8" and 1/4" radius on the top edge, half inch bottoms And Roll out shelves, single and double notching for under mount hardware. Roll outs are standard with hardware fins and hand scoop. Finishing will be 2 coats varnish with no stain.
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Moldings
Standard molding are produced through a four sided molder using insert tooling to maintain run to run consistency, available in 8' lengths.
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Veneer & Plywood
Veneers are solid wood 10 mills thick with pressure sensitive back available in most species, Available in 2 x 8 size only.
Plywood is available in 1/8" and 1/4". The 1/8" door skins are solid wood core with real wood veneer front and back available in cut to size 2x8 and 4x8 sheets. 1/4" is constructed with MDF core to help eliminate core voids often found in plywood, available in cut to size and 4x8 sheets.
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Hardware
Hinges available are Blum compact 33 and insert a with face frame mounting plates for 1/2" overlay, Also available are Amerock single demountable Bright brass and Burnished brass in 1/2" overlay,
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Pricing
Due to the complexity of the hundreds or combinations that a simple door can have it will be necessary to contact or office to get our product guide sent out or fill out the online order form and send it in for a quote.
Items that will have bearing on the prices will be Wood species, door style and panel edge detail along with the out side edge detail. Stain colors and finish will also add to the list prices in the detail catalog.
All pricing for door's and drawer fronts is based on square foot. The formula for this is width x height divided by 144. To find the price of a product, look up the appropriate style and match it with the wood type you want then multiply it by the square foot of your product.
Minimum materials charges are:
1) Door's and raised panel drawer fronts - 1.75 square foot.
2) Slab drawer fronts - 1 square foot.
3) Drawer cores - 1 cubic foot.
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Shipping
All product is shipped F.O.B. with all freight charges shown on invoice. Valley Oak uses a variety of carriers to ship our product. Decisions on what method to use are based upon:
1) Size of order - small orders will usually go UPS or other courier methods for cost factors to you. Large pieces or large orders will ship common carrier because of size limitations of UPS and other couriers.
2) Service - carriers who provide the shortest standard delivery to your market.
3) Reliability - carriers who provide good service throughout the delivery process.
4) Availability - certain carriers do not provide services such as COD's and residential/rural delivery.
Customer Request - if you have a preferred carrier please let us know and we will try to accommodate your request.
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Warranty
Valley Oak warrants all manufactured products for one year from date of shipment. This warranty is good for the construction of all product manufactured by Valley Oak except for:
-Door's over 24" wide and 45" in height and slab drawer fronts over 30" in width and 12" in height are not guaranteed against warping.
-Door's less than 24" wide and 45" in height and slab drawer fronts less than 30" in width and 12" in height are warranted against warping of more than .25".
-Flat panel and frame only doors less than 24" wide and less than 40" are warranted against warpage of more than .25".
This warranty does not cover any problems related to customer neglect including, but not limited to: storing of unfurnished product over an extended time, customer not in when product delivered (i.e. left outside per customer instructions) and inadequate surface prep (including sanding). This limited warranty covers only the replacement of product and shipping cost (shipped same way as original). All shortages, incorrect sizes and damage due to shipping must be reported within 7 days of shipment/pickup date.
This warranty covers replacement and shipping costs only. Valley Oak will assume no responsibility for damage due to customer error or neglect.
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