Miscellaneous

Pinnacle Condos on N.W. 9th

An Innotech Vinyl Out-swing Door. When you consider that an out-swing door can be almost maybe two thirds the square footage as a Cessna 150 Airplane wing…

(www.innotech-windows.com)

…it’s no surprise that every time a wind storm blows through the Willamette Valley, it brings us our firm a crop of hyperextended and damaged doors. Without the use of a “Wind-Check,” or a “Door-Stop,”…

…it should be no surprise that when the wind blew this door back against the brick corner, it resulted in irreparable damage. Although the condo owner tried at least a temporary fix it with this L-Bracket.

According to our contact at Innotech in Canada, we were fortunate that they found a spare door this size leaning up against a wall in one of their warehouses.
Apparently, Innotech has…

…ceased manufacturing this series of doors with no thought about what the many property owners are going to do when it comes time to replace some more of these doors into what are completely unique vinyl door jambs.

Not to mention that these original uniquely sized and uniquely profiled vinyl jambs are all tied into the equally unique adjoining vinyl window frames, and that there are skyscrapers full of them in Portland.

We can only speculate that perhaps we’ll be called upon to come up with some sort of custom solution when this problem becomes more apparent to the various property management companies that oversee the maintenance on these buildings.

So anyway, with regard to this door, we removed the original door, and re-installed the original glass and the original multipoint locking mechanism into the new Innotech Vinyl door sash we acquired.
We haven’t taken the opportunity to photograph…

…many of the hardware adjustment projects we are called upon to provide for these Innotech, as well as the Euroline Vinyl doors on the numerous condos around town…but we are beginning to see a marked increase in the demand as the wear and tear is brought to bear.