In Southwest Florida the power goes out, and a garage door that has worked faultlessly for years suddenly becomes the thing standing between a household and its car. Most of the difficulty is avoidable, but only if the manual release has been tried at least once before the day it is needed. What the Opener […]
When an access-controlled door stops working, the first call usually goes to whoever installed the card readers. Often that is the wrong trade. Electric strikes and magnetic locks sit at the junction of two systems, and the thing that has failed is more often the door than the electronics attached to it. Two Devices That […]
Weatherstripping is the cheapest part of a door and the one most often bought wrong. The hardware aisle offers half a dozen profiles that all claim to stop draughts, they are not interchangeable, and fitting the wrong one is why a door that was merely draughty ends up draughty and hard to close. Start With […]
Adding insulation to a garage door that is already hanging there is one of the most popular winter projects in Ontario, and it is one of the few where doing it well and doing it badly look identical on day one. The difference shows up a few weeks later, when the door starts behaving strangely, […]
Walk into most Toronto retail entrances and you pass through two sets of doors with a small lobby between them. That lobby is a vestibule, and it exists to stop the street from coming inside every time someone walks in. What building owners notice over time is that the two sets of doors do not […]
There is one door in most Toronto houses that nobody thinks of as a door. It sits between the attached garage and the house, it usually opens into a laundry room or a hallway, and it is treated as an interior door. It is not. It is a fire separation, and it is the one […]
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. […]
Most garage doors in Southwest Florida are hung on concrete block rather than wood framing, and that single construction difference changes what goes wrong. The hardware is not screwed into a stud. It is anchored into masonry, and masonry anchors in this climate have a failure pattern of their own. Block Construction Changes the Fixing, […]
When a warehouse door stops working, the work order names the door. Often the door is the victim. The guides, the header, the anchorage and the concrete around the opening are what actually moved, and until those are dealt with the door will keep failing in the same way no matter how many times it […]