Alright, and we are live. Welcome, everybody. We are talking today about custom doors. It's one of our best sellers. So Matt, you want to show what we got right here?
Yeah, so we've got one of our regular star board, frame starboard door, access doors, or build your own starboard boat doors that are right on the website, it a really popular part, it's on a lot of boats, hundreds, if not 1000s of boats, 1000s of doors in the field, very common, very popular part that's out there.
So let's build one, let's flip over to the website here. And let's check it out. So as you can see, we've got everything set up right here for you to be able to configure and order one of these doors on the website, by yourself. The first two critical dimensions are going to be your height and your width. And above that you select if you're going to provide us with the outside dimension, or the hole cutout dimension. So let's for right now start with the outside dimension. And let's put in something just to start and then we'll talk a little bit more about those.
So put in 20 by 12. And of course you have this drop down here. So let's do 20 and a half by 12. So in this case, we're supplying the overall outside dimensions of 20 and a half by 12. And up at the top, you'll see a pop up that pops up and says these are the important dimensions. And there's three important dimensions, they are the outside, the cut out and the pass through. So now you want to talk a little bit about what those are what each of them.
Yeah, sure important. So looking at the door here zoomed in, this is a this is what we refer to as the outside dimension that's going to be all the way around the door, the outside of the frames is… The dimension that it's going to sit on the fibreglass. Right, absolutely aside, yes.
So to show you guys, the cutout dimension, flip the door over here, these are the returns that are screwed onto the back of the door, this is what we put the seal into, but the returns are what go into the hole of the cut in the boat. This is what we refer to as the cutout it's the portion of the returns that will slide into the hole of the boat...
The pass the hole that need that needs to be cut in the fibreglass. Right. So exactly. If you were matching this door to an existing hole, it probably is easier to instead of specifying the overall outside to specify the cut out,
Right, yeah, okay, right. So to show you guys what we refer to as the pastor, I'll flip the door over so you can see it from the way you would normally have the door installed. And you can see the pastor dimension we refer to is going to be the inside of the returns the actual available space that you have to put an item through the opening in the door. Now the one thing to keep in mind is the passer dimensions that you see here do not factor in the couch plate that you see right here in this couch plate sticks out about a half an inch.
So talk to me about where it seems to me intuitively that the outside dimension and the cutout dimension are the most critical. And they're the ones that were able to accept, right give us right side or you can give us the cut out. What are some examples about where pass-through dimension might be critical on something you want to really think about?
So maybe you have an access door in the back of your leaning posts, your fibreglass leaning posts, and you know, you want to put a tackle box in there and your tackle box is 12 inches wide. Right? If you're looking to put that tackle box through there, you're going to need to know the actual open space that's going to be available in that door so that you can make sure it fits when you go to put it in. Sure. That way you can calculate that dimension before you've ever even placed an order.
Sure. So I think another example would be if we were doing an anchor locker door, right, you knew your anchor was a specific width Yeah, to be able to fit through the door, right, or you're gonna, you're gonna be a little bit upset. So though, here's another, you know, kind of graphical representation or rendering of the three critical dimensions, of course, outside cut out and pass through.
So you can look here we've supplied the overall it's a dimension of 20 and a half by 12. And it's told us that okay, the cut out dimension that it matches is 18.75 by 10, and a quarter, and then that'll result in the pass through that 16.625 by 8.125. So it's important as you're putting in these first main dimensions that you're looking at those three, and if any of them you're particularly sensitive to or particularly matter to you that you're, you're taking that into consideration. And you have it right there in front of you to calculate everything that you need.
So once you feel good about the dimensions you move on to colour so we've got a variety of different colors and if you scroll down here, there is a colour section of the website you can click on and you can see your representation of these different colors. Now I want to talk about this a little bit because this is definitely valuable and so much that you can look at this and go okay see that white is brighter than sea foam brighter than fish white, you know, it is a little bit brighter than Arctic light.
But your monitors are tricky, right you can change the monitor settings to be darker you can make it different for gaming or watching your television right so it's all different now looks different on one monitor versus, you know, another monitor. So really, this can be used for referencing relative differences in colour white whites brighter than arctic white, but it's not necessarily represented Have the colour of arctic white or sea foam and for that what I really recommend is a sample chain. And we sell those sample chains for they are $10. Right $10. I think it was on for $10 on the website that includes that's free shipping.
Yeah, free shipping, so we're trying to sell them at cost. In fact, I guarantee that this ends up costing us a little bit more than $10 to produce and ship to you. But you can see they come and you've got all the different colour options milled with a different of course colour that that is, right, we recommend doing this if you're particularly sensitive to you know, the colors matching, you'd be surprised at how bad two different whites can look when installed on a boat. So that's always an option that I would encourage people to do.
So in this case, I would say white, white is the brightest and the most popular. So we'll move forward with that, then you'll need to select the hinge direction. And you can see it can either hinge on the height, or it can hinge on the width. And it can either hinge left, right down or up. You know if in a case that's confusing, we have these graphical or these rendering examples of how it would hinge. But let's just go with the height. Right? This is a chance to talk a little bit about generally wanting to hinge on the longer dimension, you want to kind of Yeah, pitch that a little bit.
So a lot of times what you see, you can see here, this door hinges on the long dimension. Now, the orientation of this, this could be your height, or it could be your width, it depends on how you're mounting your door. But the key is, it is on the long dimension. The critical time where it's absolute, it's really important that you are hinging on the long dimension is when it's on your height. Because what can happen is, if your door is wider than it is tall, what's going to happen is the door is going to sag inside the frame and the bottom of the door right here will actually hit the frame. When you're trying to close it. Sometimes you get some clearance issues within the reveal here.
So what was a real quick, you're saying if you were trying to do something like this, like let's say maybe even the store was a bit wider than this, right? And you tried to hinge on this side right here, right that that the weight of the star board is going to make this one kind of sag on this long hand. Correct? Versus if it was kind of like this and hinging down all the weight sitting down against this hinge. So it might not be as much of an issue.
Right, the trouble that you get is you get a shorter hinge than the actual length of the door. So you have you have less to hold the door a lot more leverage on the hinge. And these are plastic doors, plastic will give a little bit when it's put under a load.
Understood. Okay, so in this case, we said we're going to go ahead and hinge on height, which conveniently is the longer dimension, so we're good to go there. And then we're talking about latch tight. So we've got plastic or stainless latches. And on the plastic side, we can either go white or black. Now there is a little bit of a surcharge when you start going into the stainless options or the Locking Options. Back here you can see the different latch types. Of course the one we're looking at here is a stainless latch. Yeah. What are your thoughts on plastic versus stainless.
Honestly, plastic is great if you want everything to be one colour, but as you can see we have white or black. So if you're looking for arctic white, or fish white, something along those lines, it might be a little bit more challenging or grey. Now stainless might be a little bit closer there. But as far as durability, stainless is the way to go. I prefer the stainless latches, three, four years, you know, I've seen them go longer than that, but I've seen them break more frequently. Sure. So my personal preference, the stainless looks nicer, it lasts longer. It just holds up. I would I would say feels more professional it does you look at it, you're like hey, this is a proper door.
That's yeah, that somebody wasn't trying to cheap out on some sure. So let's go ahead and let's do stainless steel, let's say non-locking, maybe blockings not critical, right. Okay, the next one I want to talk about is Bal seal and let's talk about this one for a while because this is one that I almost wish we would take off and make everything required to have bolts right switch over to zoom and Matt you want to talk about what the bal seal is sure.
So when you guys saw the door open I'll show you here the seal actually gets pressed into the returns and what we mill a T slot in here the seals not adhesive it is pressed into a groove that you can't see behind the seal. The nice thing about this seal it is a nice thick rubber seal and you can hear when I close this it doesn't it doesn't sound like plastic hitting plastic. It's much nicer it's not perfect. These doors are not waterproof, but it does help to keep some water out. The main thing that it does is it helps to reduce rattle. You don't get any rattle when the door shaken.
You know when you're running the boat, right? You don't have your doors smacking and gets your turn. Right do now what it also does is these catches on these doors are slotted where the where the screws are attached so you can adjust your catch plate. If for some reason it loosens up over time and your door starts to do something like this. And I left it loose so I can demonstrate it. But you can open the door up and pull this tight. Just a little bit. Oh sorry. I'm a little off camera, you can slide this tighter, you know, tighter is going to be towards the inside of the opening. And then you can move this up. And you see you don't get that anymore doesn't rattle.
Gotcha. So you have some adjustability in the catch location to be able to hold it tight against that against that seal. Exactly. So yeah, I think in addition to, in addition to the rattle, I think it going back to the stainless, it just feels a lot more professional when I opened feel like it was built in a garage. Right when I open this up, and I see that there's a seal in here, someone took their time to really make a nice, good high quality door. And the fact that its adhesive means it last a long time I don't I don't hear about issues with our seal ever because it is not easy pressed in you know it's in there very…
Yeah, I can't pull this out. If I wanted to, it would actually break off the off the channel that's in the T slot before it came out. Alright, so let's move on. So we will add seal, which adds $25. The last is louvres. And we don't have a door sitting here with louvres. But I have a picture and I want to talk about what louvres are. So louvres are actually slots that are mil that's actually milled, offset one from the front and then one from the back side of the door so that it stepped up a little bit. And the purpose is to allow air to flow through it. But to minimize the amount of water that can actually blow through, right. And so what's the theory behind why you would want louvres.
So I mean, louvres will allow air to pass through. So you see it a lot more commonly on areas where the inside of the hatch might have something wet in it, you know, maybe on the back of your console, if you're throwing wet life jackets in there on your anchor locker door, when you just throw all your wet anchor rope inside there. That's going to allow some air to pass through and allow whatever's in there to dry a little bit quicker and not hold that wet air inside the hatch. We do see from time to time. A lot of the argument is, well, if you're if you have louvres on there, you don't need seal because you're not really trying to keep water out. You're going to get more water in through louvres than you will if you don't have them anyway.
Yeah, and that's a good one because I when I'm talking to customers, I will really try to convince them to do seal I think for $25 adds a lot of value. And I'm right there with it. I would probably push for someone to do a stainless steel latch, I think for the $22. That brings a lot of value and durability. Louvres are much more of a personal opinion. Right? Okay. Yes, you do enable some airflow. But you also enables a little bit of water to get through certainly, if you're washing down the boat, right? Yeah, it's not going to stop if you're spraying in there from getting water. So louvres are kind of you can take them or leave them right. But they're available. And what's the upcharge for louvres?
$25, I think $25. So let's say no louvres, right. So we've just built this custom door to the dimensions that we know we need for your, for our outside dimensions, we've selected the colour of the hinge direction, we've upgraded the latch to a non-locking stainless latch, we've added bulb seal, and we're good to go. We've got a price right on the website. So how long does this normally take to ship for you.
So from the time you place an order, it'll take about three to five business days before it ships out from our facility. And I think nine out of 10 times we're hitting the three side of that, generally, it'll get engineer the next day and place an order right now. And generally, it'll get engineered the next business day, I should say, yes, the next business day, cut that night. I'd be built that next day and hopefully ship that next day. So normally we're at two to three days. So normally on the faster side. We try to be on the quicker side for sure.
Awesome. Well, last thing I want to say is just because we made it so easy to do it yourself. It doesn't mean that we don't want to talk to you if you have any questions at all. If you want to pick our brain about this door style or that door style. You know we're here from eight to five ready to chat about this or any other project that you have. Think of anything else we need to talk about. That's what that's build your own doors. Awesome. Thanks and have a great day.
