Hollow Metal Steel Doors

Clean Water Services in Tigard, is a water treatment plant.
They had an 8-foot tall Commercial-Grade Steel Door with a header-jamb that was pressing down upon the top of the door. It would seem as though the concrete opening was pushing down on the jamb, but we never saw any obvious evidence of it.

We would have to say that we have never really seen this phenomenon without being able to determine the cause. Anyway, this pressure eventually reached the point of creating an inoperable door. Several years before, we suggested they let us grind the top of the door to compensate for the conflict, which they had us do. Several years hence and the steel header-jamb continued to deflect down.

So now the powers that be have decided a new steel door & jamb assembly is the way to go. Above we have Steve Hilt having just loaded the door & jamb up at our warehouse in Tigard. You can click on the photo if you would like a little better view.

Accurate Concrete Cutting prepares for their part in this project, which is to cut the grout between the door jamb and the masonry wall.

Looks like a chain-saw.

The original door is removed, and the new door assembly is put into position and anchored to the masonry wall by means of Dynabolts inserted through the punch and dimpled steel door jamb.

Brandon Todd goes about showing off that he does not need a step ladder to reach the top of an 8’ tall door jamb.

It makes you wonder if he ever considered Basketball, but I am glad it did not go that way for him. Just consider how much money we save on step ladders.

On the serious side of things, we are really thankful for the many skills Brandon brought to the table when he came to work for us.
Note that we reinstalled the original panic device and even the original 6-inch X 27-inch lite-kit.

Speaking of the talent which we have had the good fortune of employing, we should also mention that the same holds true for Steve Hilt who is shown here preparing the concrete floor for a threshold installation by means of a hammer-drill.