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Manufacturing Facility Doors

We installed metal jambs and wood and metal doors for this manufacturer as they relocated to this facility. Every door conformed to a specific function such as the use of magnetic hold-opens, self-closing, fire rated, egress, full glass, exterior weather resistant, and key card access.

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Two Unique Special Purpose Doors

This customer needed two doors to connect three dining areas and to provide easier travel paths for the servers.

One end of this dining room connected with a bar/take-out area that opened only during peak hours. This door was camouflaged so it would not detract from the room's ambience while it was closed during off-peak hours.

The other end of this dining room connected with an outdoor dining area by way of a single-wide door. We converted the single to a double door.

Camouflaged Door Before/After
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Camouflaged Door
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Boutique Wine Door

I used wine barrel staves to make door pulls. But the real trick was to retrofit the new mortise lock (required by the fire marshal) to replace the existing bored lock.  I fabricated a drilling template and metal escutcheon plates. Works perfect, saved the doors, and meets the fire code requirement to install an indicator lock.

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40-Year Overhaul

Each "leaf" of this retail door weighs hundreds of pounds. The facility had constant maintenance issues as the hardware progressively wore out. However, the door represents the art and craftsmanship that goes into their product, and worth saving. We gave it another 40 years with a top-to-bottom refurbishment beginning with embedding new automatic closers in the concrete apron. Along with regrading the apron to meet modern ADA standards. Then we replaced the pivots and corrected their alignment. We also shaved and refinished the door edges to fit the opening which had shifted over the years. We saved the push pads and closer rods by replacing all the screws, springs and bushings with factory replacement parts. This classic old door works like new but looks like old work and will swing hundreds of cycles per day for many more years.

All this work had to be done while the business remained open, and in the middle of winter; the "slow" season. Therefore, one leaf at a time had to remain operational and lockable for the duration. We built an indoor dust shroud to be used in the early morning hours during cutting and grinding work. Then opened the door during business hours and continued working from within our protective weather enclosure.

40-Year Old Hand-Made Retail Door Refurbishment
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Pocket Door Latch - Repair Not Replace

How do you replace a failed door latch with a different type of latch while not throwing away the damaged door? Make a Dutchman to patch the door.

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