Hardware Installation

The iconic Albers Mill Building at the west end of the of the Broadway Bridge on the Willamette River was built in 1909.

Now being leased- out as office space, one of the new tenants has asked that the locks be changed-out to facilitate their needs.

For reasons that are not explained to us, the existing mortise-case lock must go and be replaced with a standard cylindrical lock.

Given that the door is finished naturally, filling-in the existing lock-preps will not be a viable option. The property managements on-site..

…manager has a spare door with the necessary type of lock. It’s the correct width, height & door-swing. Only problem is that the hinge locations & latch height…

…differ from the original door, which is where our services come into play. Replacing the 16-guage hollow-metal steel drywall-frame, as these are called is certainly not an economical…

…option, so moving the hinge-mortises on the door is accompanied with new wood to fill the original mortise locations, which are later stained to match the door.

And the original electric-strike-plate is removed and the original mortise is filled-in there as well. Backer-plates are installed, steel-filler-material is customized and installed, and the surgery is…

…is finished with Bondo and later, a paint-job will erase all traces of the original strike-plate location. As you can see, we’ve also cut-out for and installed a new standard strike-plate at a lower location.