Aluminum Windows

The Columbian Newspaper Building in Vancouver, Washington.

Someone took the corner a little too soon and ran into the building instead.
If you look closely at the above photo, you can see that the window/door assembly is bent towards the interior.

Actually, they think someone was trying to break in by pushing on the structure with their vehicle.

But what they lacked in the intelligence it takes to decide to try something like that, they made up for with their apparent lack of fortitude?fortunately.

What is somewhat amazing is that none of the plate glass broke.

The challenge for us was deglazing this glass that had so much pressure brought to bear upon it, without it breaking on us.

So the work was a little tedious until we had all the affected glass removed.

Then came putting it all back together. Obviously, we had to replace the aluminum threshold that was twisted.

But other than that, all the original components were reused, including all the glass.

Tadaaa!