New Doors, slab or Preframed? How do you fix your doors?

[Jerry W.]

Hey Everyone, I have done all kinds of door replacements.  I like using preframed doors and try to just save the trim around them to use again.  Awhile back I bought some doors and just removed the hinges and using a wood chisel put the old hinges on them at the same spot as the old doors and rehung them.  For the first time I am buying slab doors and have drilled out the knobs for them.  The kits are pretty handy.  Nothing came close to the what I needed so I had to mix a few colors of stain and again put the hinges from the old door on the new slab door.  What method do you use for replacing doors in your rentals?

If you use the slab doors and stain them do you put a clear coat over top of them when you are done?

I have used some unique methods of patching doors too.  In one house all the holes were about the same level to I cur out sone thin plywood and stained it and cut a fancy design in it and glued it over the holes in the same spot.  I have had great feedback from folks over it.  It is a house I bought and wanted to to get up and rented as soon as possible.

How do you fix or replace door?