Wood Doors

Faith Journey Church in Tigard. Time for a facelift and upgrade for the front entry door, sidelight & transom assembly.

New doors, hardware & upgrading from single-pane glass to insulated glass, including putting glass back into the transom above the doors. And all of this is to be done re-using the original…

…jamb-assembly, because we possess the expertise to do so. They took our recommendation to eliminate the vertical-rod panic hardware which tends to be so temperamental and problematic over the years. Just ask the guys who do the maintenance on these buildings.

This is done of course by means of employing the use of what is called a steel removable-center mullion upon which the non-vertical-rod panics will latch. If at some point there is the need to move a piano through the opening, the post is easily and quickly removed and reinstalled.

Phil McNair goes about cleaning the sidelight jambs in preparation for installing the new insulated (double-pane) glass units.

Brandon is preparing the installation of the removable center steel mull-post.

Steve Hilt is fine-tuning the sizing on the new wood doors.

You’ll note that the plywood and the light fixtures over the top of the doors has been replaced with new insulated glass.

New non-vertical-rod panic devices, new hydraulic door-closers, kick-plates, the mull-post. Choosing to paint the jamb assembly white was a good call. The contrasts between the brushed-chrome, the black & the white look snappy, don’t you think?

A bit more subdued on the exterior, but I guess the board of directors decided to stay with the original color scheme on the building’s exterior. Personally, we sort of liked the lite-kits in the original doors…they seemed a little more creative and inviting, a bit less institutional perhaps…but of course we weren’t calling the shots or paying the bills.