פרגולה בחצר ופרגולה על מרפסת גג נראות דומה בתמונה, אבל מבחינת ההתקנה אלה שתי עבודות שונות. בחצר העמודים יורדים לאדמה ואפשר ליצוק יסוד. על הגג אין לאן לרדת: מתחת לריצוף יש שכבת איטום, מתחתיה שיפועי בטון, ומתחתיהם התקרה של מישהו. כל בורג שנכנס שם עובר דרך כל השכבות האלה. זו הסיבה שרוב התקלות בפרגולות גג […]
בכל פעם שמישהו מתלונן על יונים בדירה, הבדיקה מתחילה במרפסת ובמזגן. אלה המקומות המובנים מאליהם. אבל יש מקום אחד שחוזר שוב ושוב ושכמעט אף אחד לא בודק לבד: הרווח שנוצר בין חלון הממ״ד לבין תריס המיגון או הרשת שלפניו. זו נישה קטנה, מוצלת, מוגנת מרוח ומגשם, ובדיוק בגובה שיונה מחפשת. מבחינתה זה לא פגם בתכנון. […]
In Naples, the garage door usually looks fine long after its hardware has stopped being fine. The painted skin handles the climate reasonably well. The springs, hinges, rollers, cables and fasteners behind it do not, because salt air reaches every one of them and it never takes a day off. Why Coastal Air Is Harder […]
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Rolling steel service doors are the workhorses of Ontario warehouses, and they are also the doors most likely to be run until they stop. Unlike a sectional door, which visibly sags or comes off its track, a rolling door tends to hide its condition inside the barrel and the guides until something lets go in […]
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Door problems are not evenly distributed across Toronto. The housing stock changes considerably as you move from the older inner suburbs out to the postwar subdivisions and the newer infill, and the doors change with it. A technician who works across Scarborough, North York and Etobicoke sees genuinely different jobs in each, and knowing which […]
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The rubber strip along the bottom of a garage door is the cheapest component on the whole assembly and the one most likely to be ignored until something else gets ruined. It is the only thing standing between an Ontario winter and the floor of your garage, and when it fails the consequences show up […]
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When a storefront door starts dragging on the floor or catching at the top, the glass usually gets the blame, and sometimes the frame. But on most aluminum storefront doors the part that actually wore out is small, cheap, and buried where nobody looks: the pivot. Centre-hung and offset-pivot doors carry the entire weight of […]
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Every autumn, somewhere around the first hard frost, a certain kind of call starts coming in. The front door that closed perfectly all summer now needs a shoulder. Or the opposite: the door swings shut too easily and the deadbolt no longer lines up with the strike. Nothing was dropped, nothing was hit, and nobody […]
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You press the remote, walk to the car, and the door comes down two feet and goes straight back up. Press it again and the same thing happens. Sometimes it gets almost to the floor before changing its mind. The door is not broken in the way people assume — it is doing exactly what […]
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An exit device is the only piece of hardware in a building that is designed around the assumption that the person using it is panicking. Everything about it follows from that: it has to open with a push, anywhere along its length, with no knowledge of how it works and no free hand required. Which […]
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