Water Damage

Repeat clients whose home we worked on in Portland employed our repair services to repair a couple doors on the apartment over garage structure behind their beach house in Lincoln City.

Mrs. Anderson and myself incorporated a site visit to inspect and measure the two door openings while at the coast recreating. The door for the upstairs apartment was toast.

The hinge-jamb. And those little self-adhesive pads designed to plug the air-gaps at the bottom of the door. Depending on the exposure and the type of door, these pads can actually have an adverse effect on the door.

Not only were the vertical jamb-legs water damaged, but the little sponge rubber corner-pads applied to the bottom of the jamb legs to plug air-gaps seemed to hold moisture against the bottoms of the wood-edged Fiberglass door, resulting in the rot shown above.

So we sent our technicians Steve Hilt and Jared Anderson to replace the upstairs door assembly and to replace the jamb components for the lower garage access door.

Before installing the new apartment door assembly, measures were taken to seal the rough-opening with self-adhesive flashing membrane, as well as an aluminum door-pan.

The bottom of the jamb legs were also outfitted with some of the membrane material to aid against the tendency of the wooden jamb-leg end-grain wicking up moisture.

Steve puts on the final touches upon the new Masonite Brand Fiberglass Full-Lite Door & Jamb Assembly.

And then attention is turned to the garage foot door that needs both vertical jamb legs replaced.

And also the wooden component of the sill-threshold assembly which we replaced. As you can see, we were able to mill a new oak piece on-site and reuse the original aluminum portion of the sill assembly.