Wood Doors

West Hills School on Southwest Vermont.

Wood doors being used on a childrens school is a prospect I probably do not even need to speak about, other than to say that it translates into job security for those who repair and replace doors.

Fortunately, or unfortunately, these decisions were not left up to us, so the old wood doors were replaced with new wood doors. You might note the crack in the door panel reflecting some of the damage.

This is a shot of the hinge edge of one door at the top, if you look closely you might make out the heads of three fasteners that someone has installed in an attempt to reattach the vertical door-stile to the top-rail.

The doors do appear to be somewhat high mileage as evidenced by the ratty looking varnish on the interior side.

The panic hardware on these doors was not the best grade product to begin with, so it has no doubt been causing the maintenance crew considerable grief for some time.

The doors are very ill fitting as evidenced by the rub-marks up at the top of strike jamb.

Not to mention the light seeping through over the top of this closed door as viewed from the interior.

And so it was that we were employed to provide, hang & weatherstrip five of the exterior doors & related hardware into the original wood jambs with LCN 4041 hydraulic door closers and Von-Duprin panic devices.

The willingness to go full-tilt on the best commercial hardware money can buy was a good call by someone in the expenditure department. The wood doors may get beat up, but the hardware should be very low maintenance & durable.