Unique & Custom Applications

Your proverbial Spanish villa in Tualatin.
Now you might find yourself asking what this is doing under “Door Installation,” and the answer would be that although we didn’t install these doors, the solution to our client’s problem was a bit unique for a garage door application & we wanted to show it off a little bit.

We don’t really have a garage door category, so here we are. Our client had a desire to seal-up the bottoms of his three sets of double “swing-type” garage doors, which are frequently referred to as carriage doors. And since this is not your stereotypical garage, in that it…

…incorporates living space as well as space for 3 of his cars, and we didn’t want to coat everything with sawdust, we set up a temporary covered shop to the exterior, which we are called upon to do on a fairly frequent basis working in the Willamette Valley as we do. And we’re pretty darn good at it.

Jared cuts the door bottoms slightly to even up the spacing between the door bottoms and the paver stones upon which our thresholds will sit.

David Castro then routes the bottom of the doors for the Pemko 369DP Pile weatherstripping product that will be installed to seat-up against the top of the thresholds when the doors are in the closed position.

The Pile Weatherstripping product is then installed after we seal the door bottoms.

Brandon goes about installing the Pemko 181DT aluminum thresholds under the three sets of double-entry doors. Anchoring them to the masonry surface. To gain a better view of some the smaller details, you can enlarge the photos by clicking on them.

We decided to augment this installation with a couple extra components. The two Oak filler-strips were installed to provide extra support for the thresholds, since there would be cars driving over them. The aluminum sheet metal piece allowed us to even-out how the threshold sat atop of the paver-stones.

As you should be able to make out in this close-up shot, we have created two separate points of contact. The pile in the bottom of the door seats-up against the top of the threshold. And second, the door-face sits-up against the silicone bead weatherstripping on the bumper portion of the threshold.

Each set of double-doors were further sealed up by means of a Pemko 355DP Astragal that mounts to the strike-edge of one of each set of doors. This astragal incorporates a pile weatherstrip that seats up against the face of the second door when closed. This was a fun job because it afforded us the opportunity to demonstrate our expertise in solving the problem of sealing up the bottoms of these doors, which our client had been struggling with for some time.