AMD Answers Hard Questions
Source: SHELTERMagazine.com

Rosalie Leone, executive director of the Association of Millwork Distributors, recently answered some specific questions concerning the side-hinged exterior door standard, also known as AAMA/WDMA/CSA 101/IS2/A440. (You can also read a pre-hanger’s perspective by Peter McIlwee of McIlwee Millwork in the AMD Headlines column in the November/December 2007 issue of SHELTER magazine on page 50.)

To give you a little background, in its current form the standard would call for door pre-hangers to test, certify and label all exterior door systems for compliance with the standard as a complete unit. The standard covers performance criteria in the areas of: structural, cycle count, air and water infiltration and forced entry. As the proposed standard is written currently, no interchanging of components is allowed. All possible combinations of door units would need to be individually tested and certified to be labeled.

The standard has the support of the Window and Door Manufacturers Association, American Architectural Manufacturers Association and the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) and is moving through the final actions in each of the three associations.

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