Unique & Custom Applications

This was one of the more unusual projects we’ve done.
A solar passive house down at the coast.
In passive solar building design, windows, walls, and floors are made to collect, store, and distribute solar energy…

…in the form of heat in the winter and reject solar heat in the summer. This is called passive solar design or climatic design because, unlike active solar heating systems, it doesn’t involve the use of mechanical and electrical devices.[1] – Wikipedia

But first, back at our warehouse:

Phase one involved installing numerous “cam-locks” in some 23 pocket door panels.

Our client had the doors shipped to our warehouse in Tigard from General Veneer Manufacturing Co. (wwwgeneralveneer.com). This is where some of the sizing issues were fine-tuned & the dozens of cam-locks installed.

The primary purpose of the cam-locks was to allow the creation of massively long pocket door panels (by virtue of locking them together) than would otherwise have been reasonable to manufacture or handle.

On-site; after bringing the doors to the coast with us, we created an impromptu shop in the as yet unfinished living quarters. Not only for installing the doors, but also the finishing of the cedar walls that made up the pockets.

This is 3 or 4 door panels all locked together. The purpose of the unusually wide pocket door panels was to cordon-off each of the two stories into any combination of thirds, width-wise, as the desire and the need presented itself in terms of function and/or solar goals.

No doubt these separations were to facilitate energy efficiency, as well as for privacy and functional purposes. Above, the master bedroom. You can see the walls from which the pocket doors may be drawn on the sides.

The same thing with the kitchen shown here.
An important element of these some 23 pocket door panels we installed is that they are all completely weatherstripped with a pile or brush weatherstrip on all four sides of each opening.

As you can see, the pockets into which the doors are stored were designed (sized) to facilitate having various types of art-work covering the door panels.