Unique & Custom Applications

A client in the Southwest Raleigh Hills area had need for getting a wheelchair through their front double-entry door assembly.

The existing brass interlocking threshold…

…and the subsequent wood sill made for a less than ideal transition to and from the exterior in a wheelchair.

There are a number of potential types of ramps that could be employed here. There are prefabricated aluminum ramps that could be used, or you could poor some concrete over the existing aggregate here.

But the most challenging component of a project like this is lowering the threshold under the doors and then modifying the weather-stripping system on the bottom of the doors to reseal to the newly lowered threshold accordingly.

Having begun in the door business primarily as weather-strippers some 30 odd years ago gives us the expertise we need to address any potential contingency in this regard.

In the photo above, you see two of the three pressure-treated pieces of lumber machined at the necessary graduation that is required to meet ADA specifications.

After fastening the ramp components to the masonry, our technician David Dulgeroff goes about adhering the aluminum to the pressure-treated lumber.

Even the ends of the newly created ramp are laminated with (Pemko 324D) anodized bronze aluminum sill-cover material for a truly complete and professional installation.

Besides the handsome accent that the dark-bronze creates in almost any application, it also wears and weathers so well for years and years.