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Fiberglass that reads as wood

Dan Ross on a textured fiberglass door stained with a gel stain and streaked so it reads as wood, then clear-sealed, on composite jambs and sills that won't rot.

Dan Ross, D.W. Ross Company. 0:46.

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We took a textured fiberglass door and we stained it with a gel stain.

He wanted a wood-looking door, but he didn't want all the problems with wood because the door that they had in there, currently the jambs had rotted out.

He said a lot of these doors that are fiberglass, stainable, almost look like they're just painted. So what we did here is we streaked the stain so that it looks more like wood. Customer came in, loved the look of it. So once he approved it, then we clear-sealed it.

We used all composite jambs on this so that the jambs would never rot out. Aluminum sills underneath there is all composite. So there's nothing that'll rot out from the bottom side under here.

Dan Ross, Vice President, D.W. Ross Company

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