Aluminum Doors

In November 2011, about 400 military & community members participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the 18.5 acre campus for the new Armed Forces Reserve Center in Vancouver, Washington after operations ended at the Fort Vancouver Barracks.

Apparently, it has now been determined that an onsite lunch room inside the new facility be transformed into some sort of store or Commissary. In the Air Force, they were called a BX, and I think other branches of the military called them a PX.

But anyway, for reasons that were not explained, it was determined that the room have a different looking entry than the rest of the interior openings.

They wanted an anodized-bronze aluminum-glass storefront type of door, similar to what they have on the main-entry into the front of the building.

They did however want to retain the original door in storage somewhere, should they decide at some future time to return the opening to its original look that matches all the other interior door openings.

And so it was determined to retain the existing hollow-metal steel jamb assembly into which we installed the new aluminum door.

This obviously necessitated that we match the existing hinge mortise and lock centerline locations.

Probably something like 90 percent of the technical skill needed to install a door like this into a door-jamb like this is found in the form of acquiring accurate dimensional information by which the new door is prepped.

Since there is no trimming or re-machining of the aluminum door or the steel jamb, the task of installation is relatively minimal.

You either get it correct when you send the dimensional information, or you get a new door.