Water Damage

Near Wallace Park in Northwest Portland.

No doubt, the original garage carriage doors that came with the home in 1934.

Despite the water damage shown here, these doors are in extraordinarily good condition for two reasons primarily. They face North & they’ve been painted with lead-paint all these years.

But the rotten divots in the bottom of the doors were beginning to let rodents gain access into the home. Steve Hilt is shown here employing the use of his Festool circular saw to notch the bottom of one of the two doors.

After the notch is made, Steve positions the new material for scribing it’s relationship to the door so has to know how it is to be cut to fit. This new material will be used to replace the bottom-rail and a portion of both outer stiles as well.

This procedure was employed on both doors. The new material is fastened by means of steel lag-bolts driven up through the new bottom-rail into each of the four vertical stiles, as well as horizontally through the lower portions of the original hinge & strike stile into the new material for extra lateral support.

The lag-bolts are countersunk deep up into the new material so as to facilitate the insertion of some dowelling material as Steve is shown applying above.

A little Bondo application where needed, a little sanding, a little primer and viola, newly repaired carriage doors.

Tim Afonin demonstrates the fine art of proper threshold application as he installs a Pemko 151D anodized bronze aluminum threshold, which was the only threshold we had in stock that was long enough for this 90″ + wide opening. We also installed a Pemko A372P Pile Weatherstripping on the bottoms of the doors that seats up against the top of the threshold when the doors are in the closed position.

The finished product. A new coat of paint, and these doors will be better than new.