Wood Doors

The Waldo Building, built in 1886 on Southwest 2nd Avenue & Washington Street is named after Judge John B. Waldo, who served on the Oregon Supreme Court.

A law office on the 3rd floor is looking to partition off an open room being used as storage space at the time of this photo. The mandate given to us was to make it look as though the new doors had always been there.

More specifically, the opening was to match the door & transom assembly in the adjoining wall.
The original wood-surround and trim materials were reused and the new doors & transom sash were sized & manufactured to fit the existing opening.

As you may be able to make out (if you click on the photo), the above photo shows Jon Benson installing what is commonly called applied-stop-material over the original surround materials to create a double-rabbeted jambs.

Jon Benson & Jared Anderson go about the business of expert door hanging.

Hinge mortises were created (routed) into the original opening materials and the doors were hung and made to look as though they had always been there.

A replica horizontal mull-post was fabricated to match the horizontal mull-post on the nearby single-entry door opening.

Elemental dear Watson. Remember, you can click on any photo to enlarge it, and perhaps gain a better idea of what is being shown.

The skillset needed to trim the new doors and transom sash to accommodate these very old openings that are often less than perfectly square, is just one example of how we earn our keep,

Which is, as you may understand, just another example of why we enjoy the reputation we have.