Replacement of two matching back doors.     An Angie’s List customer called me, She needed to replace two back doors. One is an active door, the other one is fixed in place as a window or sidelight. She had French wood doors and they were in very bad shape. She asked me to replace both of them with fiberglass skin doors with mini blinds between the dual panes of safety glass. I gave her a price for the doors and the installation. I hung...

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  A refinishing job of double oak doors and a transom in the city of Phoenix, AZ.               My old client referred me to a new client to perform a refinishing job. The doors are ten feet high, and so is the transom, twenty feet height of entry system. You can see in the image, before and after the refinishing was done. This job required scaffolding and three days of labor of two men. Including: Sanding, stain and two coats of finish.   The...

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    My clients found me on Angie’s List and asked me to advice them on replacing the broken doors by robbers.   When I came to their house I found out that one door was totally fixed in the jamb as a side light and one swinging door with broken glass. My clients asked me if I could remove both doors and use the existing jamb. They did not want to have too much mess that comes along with the demolition, they did not want to deal with...

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Soss Hinges for doors and windows.     Soss hingers were designed by Joseph Soss to be invisible / concealed.    In the pictures you can see my own work using Soss hinges.   A custom window was built from scratch using solid clear pine, frosted safety glass and Soss hinges.   The door is solid core, separating between a hallway and a living room. The idea of my client was to make the door as little noticeable as possible . I beveled the door...

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  Modification of pre-hung double French door with mini blinds. My client Carol Burch asked me to replace her patio sliding doors with French doors. She wanted the left door to be totally stationary as a sidelight and the right hand door to fold against the stationary sidelight. I suggested her metal doors with mini blinds. The mini blinds are between two panes of safety glasses. The mini blind will never need to be cleaned. I made a sketch for...

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  Replacing Bi-fold doors with decorative glass door. My client asked me to remove the bi-fold doors from her pantry and install a different door all together. At first she wanted me to get a door that will match the bathroom door that you see in the background of the picture above. The bathroom door has a pre-finish that was made in California. We had no way to find the company or the door that was installed six years ago and I had no way to...

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