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Installing Hurricane Resistant Frenchwood Doors

Bob meets with Kevin Calman to install an Andersen Frenchwood door.

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Installing Hurricane Resistant Frenchwood Doors

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" -So these are Anderson's French wood doors, well the opening here is 4 x 8 and its really a beautiful set of doors because essentially, all the work's been done in the other factory there, their flat on the outside and on the inside so that you don't have to worry about priming and painting on the inside. The glass is 1 monolithic piece of thermal glass but its also low-E glass and its high impact glass so it just doesn't get any better in hurricane areas and the like. And one of these doors will set you back I think about $1500 but let's talk with Kevin, hi!"

" -Hi Bob."

" -And Russell's here too. Okay. So one of the first things you have to do when you bring it out of the box to get your flange and you just finished putting that one in. What does the flange do for you?"

" -Flange acts as a water repellant along the exterior and also on the windows, 3 are passed on the windows through."

" -But you do not fasten through this flange to the sidings or the sheeting rather. This doesn't receive any nails at all, right?"

" -Not on the French door installation."

" -On the windows, it does."

" -That's correct."

" -Yeah. Okay."

" -We fasten through the jambs and through the header."

" -Let's talk about what preparation has already been done here for installing the door I mean I remember we used to put lead down and this is the [unk] things isn't it?"

" -Yes. We've used lead Bob for years and years on that. We've gone the [unk] thing last couple of years. You can bend it in 3 directions like this. You can see it under here."

" -Yeah."

" -Where its bent in 3 directions and it doesn't tear like lead does."

" -Uh hmm."

" -So we can bend it in 3 directions. It stops any water that drives up under the door and comes back up."

" -So that sets the threshold and you've got the house wrap all around the opening, why do you still need to put it up to a 15 pound felt paper spline around."

" -I guess that's kind of my safety blanket Bob, it's learning building in Nantucket for years and years. Just trying to keep water out that having a spline system really works well. After that, plants fit on the top here, you have the spline that stops any water that infiltrates from the siding or the casing."

" -All right."

" -Pretty good."

" -Now, this gets fastened from the inside."

" -That's correct and actually from the outside through these holes in the jamb."

" -Okay."

" -There are some holes here."

" -So the flange on the outside keeps the door plumb from the in and out perspective."

" -That's correct."

" -And now the shims that are being put in there, what do they do? They just hold it?"

" -They hold it when we fasten the screws through, Bob. They just keep the jamb from spreading out."

" -Exactly."

" -We try to get it centered in the opening. So we want just as much revealed on each side."

" -Now the screws that go into the jacks does there you've got some here they going from this side."

" -They do and I put 1 in now."

" -How many go in there."

" -We got 4 on each side and 3 across the top."

" -I'm gonna use this utility knife scour the tieback."

" -The business of putting the flange in plate, is something that goes back a long time in construction."

" -And I use a 15 to 30-weight paper."

" -So the idea is to put it under the tieback, where you just cut it."

" -My dad's favorite saying was think like water."

" -Think like water?"

" -Think like water."

" -We just think how water runs down a building, that's the way you should install it. You don't wanna it to get caught in run behind anything. We're gonna install then we'll fill that joint with tieback tape for ear infiltration."

" -And pack a couple of nails on it."

" -That's correct."

" -Okay. Well, let's take a look at the door from the inside because I know that you can also adjust these doors laterally if you have to."

" -The hinge adjustment, one of the great features of Anderson doors."

" -Now, if the doors at any point bind a little bit like that, a little bit hinge bound and if you have too much of a gap like that, the adjustment is right in here, right Kevin?"

" -That's correct Bob."

" -At each of the hinges."

" -You have 2 set screws and an Allen screw that sets back in there that'll move the door in and out, and up and down if need be."

" -Okay. And that should do it."

" -Good. It's great."

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