Miscellaneous Repair

Rivers Edge Hotel on Hamilton Court in Southwest Portland.

Formerly called the Avalon, it’s located (not surprisingly) down on the Willamette river.

A glass awning hanging over the main entry doors. A glass awning with a possible design flaw. As the first several photos indicate, this awning is sloped back towards the building structure.

Of course the ends of the glass are hanging over a gutter. However, the overlapping mull-covers…

…do not extend to the full length of the glass panes, leaving a gap between the panes. And of course, the gap represent a means by which rain-water drains off the awning structure BEFORE reaching the gutter.

This is what it looked like from below. And apparently, there were hotel guests commenting upon the…

…cold water unexpectedly bombarding them when they thought they were under cover.

And so it was that we were employed to devise some means to span these gaps.

This shot shows the aluminum sheet-metal piece we inserted beneath the mull-covers, and out over the gaps in the glass.

And finally a shot after we applied a sealant and removed the masking tape. We used a black sealant to match the black-boot beneath the mull-post covers.