Miscellaneous

Southeast Hawthorne, circa 1927

The front of the building is not much wider than the double-entry set of aluminum-glass storefront doors.

The miles on these doors show. You can see the many attempts to keep the door panels and jamb assembly pieced together. Note the door-bottom sweep affixed to the top of the door.

Now that is one beefy anti-pry plate. But someone is going to get hurt on that thing trying to walk in or out of the building, so it has got to go.

Our client, the property owner is looking to attract a new tenant, so we have been contracted to redeem the doors as much as is reasonably possible, so we pull the old threshold and the floor-hidden hydraulic door closers upon which the door sat.

Brandon cuts the shaft off the two closer mechanisms and then drops them back into their respective pans.

David Castro preps the new aluminum threshold.

Corey and Brandon install the new continuous hinges, also known by some as piano hinges.

The new Pemko 2548A aluminum commercial threshold is fastened in place and masked-off for a professional finish caulking job.

If you enlarge the photo, you may be able to make out the two surface-mount hydraulic door closers. We also updated all the weatherstripping (Pemko 306AV & 315CN)and tuned up the Adams Rite 4015/4085 Threshold/Header Bolt locking mechanism.