Hollow Metal Steel Doors

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We were first contacted in March of 2012 to inspect this aluminum door assembly and to provide a proposal to upgrade the door to a more durable commercial steel door.

As is frequently true, teenagers can sometimes be tough on things. Who hasn’t been tempted to communicate their frustrations via the exuberance by which they open or close a door?

And aluminum, being a relatively soft nonferrous metal to begin with, tends to show the mileage and the consequences of abuse quicker than your garden variety commercial-grade STEEL door, such as one would typically find on warehouse, a theater or a school building.

But it wasn’t until May of 2013 that the powers that be were apparently provided with the motivation (see photo above) to actually follow through with the upgrade.

And so it came to pass that we were contracted to provide & install a new door and jamb assembly that might suffer the slings and arrows of youthful indiscretions with a little more grace.

Even the original threshold was showing extraordinarily extreme wear and tear. You might click on the photo to get a better view of what we’re talking about.

We reinstalled the original surface-mount hydraulic door closer, the electronic panic device and the power-transfer that electrified said panic bar on the door.

Other than that which one might find on a submarine, a spaceship, in a dooms-day bunker or a nuclear power-plant, this is pretty much your strongest door. We’ve had homeowners who were burglarized employ us to replace their really nice wood doors with one of these nondescript doors.

A substantial upgrade in security to be sure. Although it’s rare in our culture to sacrifice so much “form” for the sake of the “function” of security in a residential application, we’ve been asked to do so on several occasions. So if you ever need one, you now know what type of door to get. Not to be confused with your residential-grade steel door.