Accordion Doors are not difficult to install. The most difficult aspect is usually measuring correctly and ordering it correctly. This commercial lunch room was a bit of a challenge because of the suspended ceiling. All the weight of an accordion door hangs from the track which is typically fastened to the ceiling.

Believe it or not, the structural ceiling in this room was approximately 8″ to 10″ above the suspended ceiling. So we employed the use of an extension ladder, anchored eye-bolts to the glue-lam structural beams above the suspended ceiling and ran steel cables down to a board that we suspended just below the finished ceiling.

This is what the accordion door looked like when the divided room was not needed by our client, and when it was all stacked up against the one wall.

The stock room @ a nearby Dress Barn. The original solid-core wood veneer doors only swing one direction.

And they shown forth the wear & tear of doors with very high miles and a lot of abuse. But behold, they are gone!

And the technician Jared beheld what his hands had wrought and he said; “It is good.” And then he got to work installing the new order of things.

Behold, the mother of all bottom pivot hinges.

You may or may not be able to make it out in these photos, but one thing that might otherwise go unnoticed quite easily is the fact that we covered the original steel…

…jamb-rabbet with a white sheet-metal to cover the original hinge-mortises in the steel jamb, to minimize the look…

…of these new doors being an afterthought, if you know what we mean.

Installation of the TOP pivot hinge.

Expert skill and care are employed.

Well, we must have measured correctly, and it’s a good thing because there’s no trimming these doors down to size.

Circa 33 is a restaurant/bar between S.E. 33rd & 34th on Belmont Street.

In the spring & summer months, they like to have tables outdoors behind the establishment near an outdoor barbeque…

We weren’t told, but we suspect that the Fire-Marshall or someone required that they take the padlock lock off the gate for emergency egress.

Wanting to maintain a certain degree of security, they apparently discovered that a panic-device would meet all the criteria for both security and quick exit if necessary.

So we were given the task of devising some sort of means to mount a commercial “panic-device” to a cyclone-fence type of gate.

I had some concerns about having a panic-device constantly exposed to the elements, because quite frankly…

…I doubt anyone designs them with that possibility in mind, since they almost always are installed to the interior of a door.

So as you can see by the photos, we had Schmeer Sheet Metal create a lip that hangs out over the top of the panic-bar. (www. schmeersheetmetal.com)

One of two of our high-tech closing mechanisms that we installed.

Voila!