Hollow Metal Steel Doors

Portland State University Campus Storage Room Doors.

Dumpster storage to be exact.

Between the direct exposure to the weather and the squirrely nature of those dumpster caster-wheels, these doors take a beating.

Both the doors and the jamb assembly to which they are attached get hammered, and thus the jamb has broken loose from the masonry wall.

Aftermarket measures such as the oversized kickplates and this Markar reinforcement pivot-hinge have done all they can do to squeeze as much life as possible out of these doors.

It is time for a replacement.

Eric Lewis and Jared Anderson go about the task of removing the original and then installing the new steel door-jamb assembly into the masonry wall.

We do not know how many folks know of or remember what an ERECTOR-SET is, but we tend to call much of the commercial work we do erector-set work, because of all the parts that simply need to be fastened together as with the erector set many of us played with in our youth.

We say this as compared to some of the craft and finesse needed to do some of the other niche work we do with wood doors and windows.
Which is not to say that there is not great need for strong problem-solving skills in the commercial end of our trade, because indeed there are many expensive mistakes that can be made.

And probably no more serious mistakes exist as those found in the correct measuring and ordering of commercial doors and windows.
One might think that after over three decades of measuring for doors and windows, that mistakes would be hard to make, which is of course exactly the very type of attitude that leads to expensive mistakes.