Door Repair

Skirting the northern boundaries of Lake Oswego is the 645 acre Tryon Creek State Park, the nature center building of which was officially dedicated on July 1st, 1975.

The original two sets of 6′ X 8′ front and back double-entry wood doors are showing some of the mileage you might expect from 40 years of wear and tear. The photos will enlarge if you click on them.

Damaged sticking around the glass, myriad covers and footprints from previously used hardware and security bracketing have begun to make the doors look rather ratty.

Several attempts at various types of meeting-stile weather-stripping gasketing are contributing to the scares left by ill-advised weather-stripping products such as Pemko’s 369AP and 303DS. Neither of them had worked very well on these doors for various reasons we won’t go into here.

The FRONT doors, which are easily the most High-Traffic doors, are in need of (2) new LCN Hydraulic Door Closers. And a plan is hatched to replace these off-set door-pulls with more of an updated version with custom plates fabricated for us by Tice Industries in in N.E. Portland.

The purpose of the custom 24″ tall plates is cover some unsightly holes left from previous hardware. Above, we have Sean installing the new LCN 4041 Hydraulic Door closers. Steve is filling the mortises left from the Pemko 369AP weather-stripping that we removed, after which Mike sands it down flush with the edge of the door before it is painted.

Top left photo shows the newly plugged mortises on the edge of one of the doors. Top right photo shows the replacement stop material we installed to replace the damaged material. And the lower photos show Mike installing kick-plates and door-bottom brush-type sweeps.

This is nice shot of the new 24″ tall plates that covered up and cleaned up some previous damage. Also being shown is the Pemko 29324CP meeting-stile weather-stripping with screw covers. The “soft-brush” version is among the best meeting-stile weather-stripping we have found in over 30 years of trying various products.

Exterior & Interior shots of both sets of double-entry doors after Dan Rice painted them. See; http://woodwindowstaining.com/

The original 1975 doors restored to their former glory. The design is simple elegance, heavy with durability and functionality in a handsome earth-tone light green color and dark oil-rubbed bronze hardware accent. Fitting a State Park Structure, don’t you think?