Miscellaneous

Paul Schatz Furniture (shown) apparently owns the building that the BedMart store is in, because his firm hired us to fix some store front doors on the BedMart Store.

Storefront Doors made by Vistawal Architectural Products – Entrances and Storefronts in Texas to be exact. (http://www.vistawall.ae/qualification/25)

We would not be inclined to associate the problem we’re here to remedy, with the quality of the storefront assembly. Vistawall products seem no more problematic than any of the other brands of aluminum storefronts.

One of the symptoms was that one of the doors was hitting the header jamb above it.
At a glance, you could see the closer-arm connection pin hitting the jamb, as shown in the photos above.

If you enlarge the photo by clicking on it, you may be able to make out how the horizontal component called the header-jamb has seemingly dropped and begun to walk towards the exterior when compared with the other adjoining components.

Again, if you look closely, you can see the same thing when inspected from the exterior.

And so it was that our technicians pulled the cover off the header-hidden Jackson Hydraulic Door Closer compartment…

…and removed the closer to allow us access to the bracket that serves to hold the jamb components together, as well as a mounting-bracket for the closer. For some reason, the fasteners had broken off.

Our guess? Settling.
After removing the insulated glass in the transom above, the header-jamb was clamped back into proper position and held there with shims and then refastened.

Technician Phil McNair puts the finishing touches on the project, and the project comes to a satisfying completion, given that no transom glass fell on any BedMart clients.