Glass Replacement

1500 S.W. 11th Ave. in Portland. Built in 2007 with 26 Floors, 250 feet tall.

It’s pretty difficult to see in these small photos, but the glass in this kitchen window cracked for some reason probably related to settling.

It’s also probably difficult to see, but the glass extends up past the ceiling at the top and below the kitchen countertop at the bottom.

If you enlarge this photo by clicking on it, you might be able to better see this from the exterior.

That ceiling is hanging down 20″ in front of the glass, and only 8 1/2″ away.

And the glass sits 5 1/2″ down below the Granite countertop.

Since the glass comes out to the interior…something had to change, or there would be no way to remove the glass. And as you can see from this above photo, it was the drywall ceiling…

…that was changed. The top half of the above photo is showing the steel-stud substructure that was removed after cutting back the drywall.

Hosea hanging around outside waiting to do his part to help us deglaze the glass unit from the exterior.

Our technician Brandon readies the new insulated glass unit for installation after having removed the broken unit.