Miscellaneous Repairs & Modifications

The Irvington district. Lots and lots of history and Portland architectural character.

And nothing speaks of Portland’s character much better than its emphasis upon the world of art.
Remember, you can click on these photos to get a little better glimpse of some of the details.

Here we have a really delicate artistic expression in the form of a glass Heron. A little too delicate actually. Apparently, it’s been repaired more than several times before, and the home owner is tired of having to pay for its continual repair, or so it’s been reported to us.
Can you see the arched crack in the glass emanating from the Herons chest?

And in large part, the delicacy comes from the fact that we are dealing with single-pane glass, whereas so much of the commercial art-glass in doors these days comes sandwiched and protected by virtue of an insulated glass unit. Note the rope that is tacked to the door, which is the means by which the art-glass is glazed to the wood panel. Quaint!

Thus, every time this large heavy door is closed, there exists the possibility that inertia’s sudden arrest when hitting the strike-jamb will translate into the glass flexing and breaking. Here we are looking at the handiwork of Craig French. Master radius wood guy of Cascade Specialty Woodworking. See; www.radiuswoodguy.com

But it should be known, that before the glass was re-installed back into the door, that David Schlicker of David Schlicker Art Glass (www.davidschlicker.com) made the repairs to the original art work that had been damaged.

After which he proceeded to sandwich the art-glass between two panes of clear, tempered oval glass pieces and sealing the edges all around. So Craig French proceeded to use the dimensional information…

…related to thickness and shape of this new insulated glass assembly as it related to the thickness and shape of the original hole in the panel of the door and proceeded to manufacture the interior & exterior oval-shaped stop material by which this piece of art was reinstalled by our company.

Kudos to Craig French (Cascade Specialty Woodworking) and David Schlicker (David Schlicker Art Glass) for making our job so much easier by their being the experts and craftsmen they purport to be.

And kudos to Brandon Todd, our field technician who so ever skillfully finessed the re-installation of this delicate bird back into its perch!!!