American Door Finishing by Nicks Building Supply

About Our Finishing

Manufactured and Stained in Crown Point, Indiana
We take the utmost pride in finishing each and every door by hand
Keep Your Family Safe
Other companies finish their products outside the US and use non-environmentally friendly finishing processes
with toxic and Lead-based chemicals.
Doing Our Part to Help Keep America Strong!

Protect Your Investment! Get the most Life out of your doors!
Did you know? Minwax®, Sherwin Williams®, and others don't offer Exterior Grade Stains? read the can. interior use only!
Petroleum based products like: Spar Varnish or Polyurethane will yellow over time, get brittle and crack with the changing seasons.
We utilize the latest water-based, low VOC, UV enhanced products that will guarantee a great finish!

We offer the most extensive choice of finish colors. Please contact our sales reps for details.

Our In-house Multi-Step Finishing Process:

1. We carefully disassemble the door system. This helps to get behind the hinges, at all the nook & crannies, all sides of the door (including the top and bottom).
2. We caulk and glaze all glass areas to help prevent any water leakage.
3. We tape off all windows and threshold to protect from over-spray finish.
4. Wood filler is applied where needed to fill in grain and to help attain better smoothness.
5. If there are any imperfections in the wood itself, we remove them with a steaming process.
6. Bare wood sanding by hand is done.
7. Stain with UV protection is applied by spray gun. This process soaks into wood to give added sun protection.
8. Generous block sanding is applied to all six sides of door.
9. Inspect door for any imperfections from stain process and if necessary, apply touch up stain.
10. Apply first coat of sanding sealer to all six sides of door.
11. Apply finish coating
12. Scuff sand to smooth out finish coating.
13. Apply touch up finish coating.
14. Repeat steps 11 thru 13, two more times to ensure that door in completely sealed and has maximum UV protection.
15. Apply final coat of finish, primarily a low sheen or satin finish.
16. 24 to 48 hour curing.
17. Remove all taping.
18. Re-assemble door system.
19. Prepare door system for shipping, including shipping protectors and shrink wrapping.
20. Door system goes to shipping department for complete protective crating

Offering over 15 finish colors to choose from along with many custom finishes.
Distressing: We Distress Knotty Alder Exterior and Interior Wood Doors.
Light, Medium or Heavy Distressing available.

14 standard finish colors available or we can color match any color possible.
The finishes shown below have been applied to Knotty Alder and Mahogany wood samples.
Click on any tile to see close-up and color finish

Knotty Alder Stain Samples

Disclaimer: the color samples above however good have lost some of their actual trueness of color due to the digital photography.
We will not be held responsible for color match issues based on this chart alone.
Choose a color from an actual swatch sample we send you or we can match your sample.

Brazilian Mahogany Exterior Door Stain Samples

Dark Walnut
Special Walnut
Early American
Antique Cherry
Provincial
English Chestnut
Golden Oak

Colonial Maple
Jacobean
Toner
Red Oak
Red Mahogany
Johnson Cherry
Natural

Sapele Mahogany Wood Stain Samples

Natural	Golden Oak	Provincial	Colonial Maple	English Chestnut
Antique Cherry	Johnson Cherry	Early American	Toner	Special Walnut
Red Oak	Red Mahogany	Dark Walnut	Jacobean

Disclaimer: Due to variances among color monitors the colors that appear on your screen may not be exact.
We will not be held responsible for color match issues based on this chart alone.
Choose a color from an actual swatch sample we send you. Custom Color matching your sample is available.

Mahogany Interior Door Stain Samples