Miscellaneous Repairs & Modifications

Bull Mountain in Tigard. – We have this project shown in the “Glass Replacement” section of our portfolio as well, but because there was so much more that we did on these two doors, we decided to also include it in the Miscellaneous Repairs & Modifications section.

Our client had hired a handyman to tune-up the front doors in preparation for putting the house on the market.

If you enlarge the previous photo by clicking upon it, you will likely notice that only one of the two doors has the “Delta Frost” Obscure Glass shown above.

Breaking the obscure glass was the last mistake the handyman made before our client asked him to leave the premises. The photos above are showing some of the plugged holes through which our predecessor had inserted some lag-bolts in an attempt to reinforce the stile & rail components of these 8′ tall doors that had begun to pull themselves apart.

This is not an unusual procedure, but the photo above shows where one of the bolts began to bust out of the interior side of the top-rail on one of the doors. This is also something we repaired. Touching up the paint courtesy of Dan Rice’s (http://woodwindowstaining.com/)expertise, who also repainted the exteriors of the doors.

There were numerous other foibles, such as attempting to simply install a longer screw through the bottom flush-bolt without properly pre-drilling an adequate pilot-hole translating into cracking the door astragal.

Our technician Tim Afonin is shown piecing the exterior wood stop material back together in preparation…

…for installation of the new insulated glass unit…

…as demonstrated here by David Castro.

The doors were also trimmed, adjusted and re-weather-stripped for the best possible fit and operation possible, given the limitations of pre-existing conditions.