Our client was looking to acquire some sound-abatement for the media room. Their hope was that we might do so without disturbing the original woodwork too much.
Taking careful measurements, we pre-sized & pre-machined everything so that we could bring everything already prefinished, so that when we were done with the installation, the job was complete. Prefinishing was by “Spray-Coat.”
We like to work 12 months out of the year, so if a garage or a porch covering isn’t available, we have a large trailer or some free-standing portable structures we can use. But if weather allows, we can set-up whatever shop we need in the driveway, sidewalk or even the street. You might click on the photo to enlarge it and better make-out the on-site shop we’re showcasing.
One of the keys to this job was using a custom wood transom sash, which we had manufactured, to fill the tall opening above the doors & sidelights.
Our less than subtle fasteners for the transom sash would be covered and hidden by the sidelight sash. And thus the sidelight sash would also provide a degree of further vertical support for the transom.
Making this addition look like something other than an afterthought required removal of some portions of the original woodwork…
…to allow us to cut and then reinstall them around the new products. The remaining seams between the new and original products we further defused by means of some inside corner moulding.
Foreseeing that some fine tuning would likely be needed to deal with the opening being slightly out-of-square, we waited to mortise the sash for hinges until we could ascertain whether or not the top & bottom of the doors needed to be trimmed.
We hung the doors directly to the sidelights, eliminating the need for additional jambs and hopefully making for a cleaner finished product.
Door stops were provided by means of applied material to the sidelight & transom sash faces on one side. Roller-catches and dummy handles made up the balance of hardware choices.