Water Damage

Upscale duplex condo on Vista Avenue overlooking downtown Portland.

One of two back-deck single-entry exterior 8′ tall doors, both of which had damaged door jambs.

This is the other one. Both of these openings face northeast, which is to say that they faced the winds that so frequently blow in over Portland from the Columbia Gorge.

Although I’ve seen much, much worse weather-damage, and might have been tempted to offer to repair their jambs, our client was very “preventative-maintenance” minded and wanted it fixed before it…

…became any worse of a problem. As you can see, these original wood jambs were made of “finger-jointed” material, which is always a mistake for exterior applications, in my opinion.

There was also some damage from the storm-door on one of the openings being ripped off by the afore mentioned winds. There were also concerns that the thresholds weren’t properly installed and possibly allowing water penetration into the building.

So we replaced all the vertical jamb-legs with composite versions, which are of course, impervious to moisture.
We rehung the original doors into these new jambs, mortising for the hinges and the lock strike-plates on-site & re-installed the original exterior & interior trim materials.

We did of course, check the threshold configuration to make certain water was not penetrating into the house, and we installed self-adhesive flashing-membrane material over the rough-opening materials and tied it into the moisture-barrier so that our clients could sleep soundly at night no matter what northwest storms might be blowing through.

We did of course, check the threshold configuration to make certain water was not penetrating into the house, and we installed self-adhesive flashing-membrane material over the rough-opening materials and tied it into the moisture-barrier so that our clients could sleep soundly at night no matter what northwest storms might be blowing through.