New Front Doors

A unique house in Tualatin.

Relatively unique doors.

But time for a face-lift.

This is a door made by a company called IWP or International Wood Products. This company was purchased by Jeld-Wen.

So these are Jeld-Wen Doors. I’m fond of circles in door and window designs for some reason, so I like these doors.

Installed Baldwin Mortise-Case Locks with matching Dummy-Hardware in an Oil Rubbed Bronze Finish.

As is our frequent practice, we recommended that they allow us to install an anodized-bronze aluminum interlocking threshold with a brass weatherstripping hook on the bottom of the doors.
This threshold system not only allows the doors to open and close without feeling like the doors are dragging across the top of the threshold…

…but it also allows for what we call “positive-contact” when you close the doors. The weatherstripping hook on the bottom of the doors interlock and STOP up against the interior edge of the threshold. This is particularly important on double-entry doors wherein you are already dealing with one door shutting and locking into another door which carries with it a certain amount of inherent movement & flexing.

Add to that, a door-bottom weatherstripping system that doesn’t really engage anything, and it can make for a very sloppy couple of doors that move and jiggle even after they’ve been closed and locked. Add to that, the compression (foam-filled) weatherstripping that they use now days for the top & sides, and it can all make for a very spongy-feeling set of doors. So much so that they’ve been known to inadvertently set-off alarm systems when the wind blows.