Door Repair

In 1888 the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon purchased 100 acres in the West Hills and established Mount Calvary Cemetery.

It is the second-oldest Catholic cemetery in Multnomah County, and was the third cemetery built in the West Hills – Wikipedia

Judging from the relatively good condition of the door and the severe exposure it is exposed to, not to mention the frequent weather conditions up on Skyline…

…Blvd., it is safe to say that this door is not 125 years old. Nonetheless, the single-pane zinc-camed glass lite in this out-swinging wood door is showing signs of the…

…weaknesses related to single-pane camed art-glass and also the realities related to out-swinging doors. As you may notice, a door is almost the size of a Cessna 150…

…airplane wing. Couple that to the infamous winds associated with Skyline Blvd., and it’s not hard to imagine how many times this door has been yanked from someone’s hand as they opened it up.

As the two previous photos suggest, there were a number of broken panes and broken soldering joints on this art-glass lite.
The photo above shows the length of new zinc caming…

…which David Schlicker Art-Glass replaced after we temporarily removed the lite from the door and delivered it to his shop at 4610 S.E. Division St..

See www.davidschlicker.com.
Upon David finishing the repairs, we picked it up, removed the temporary board we installed in it’s place and re-glazed it to the door.

Glazing glass and glass handling is one of the many peripheral door and window related skills that we’ve thankfully been given the opportunity to hone over the course of several decades.