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French Doors Arrive

Bob meets up with Ray Adams from Pella to look at the new Pella French doors that Charlie will be installing in the library. The door is from the Architect's Series. It's a simulated divided light door. The glass is Pella's Insulshield glass, an argon filled glass with a low-E coating. It's one large piece of glass with extruded aluminum on the outside for the muntin bars and all wood on the inside. This makes it more energy-efficient than a true divided light door. It's an active/inactive door - the active door has all the hardware in it. It comes all bored out. You can lock the inactive side, but if you wish, you can open both doors up to create a nice opening.

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French Doors Arrive

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" Joining us now is ray Adams who's the installation manager here at the Boston branch of up. Fella and what a beautiful set of French doors TI here. Thanks Bob. This is the architect series dwarfed it's a simulated. Divided -- the war as you can tell it's our one of our. Six hour special window escaping -- now -- vitality that we have to pick up as the top track exactly yeah. This just pulls off some staples and whatnot codes and political architect series -- So ray what are some of the features of this door. Well this is a gives Arctic series door. It's a simulated divided light toward the glass is our Insulshield glass that's an argon filled glass slowly coating. There was simulate so it's one big piece of glass exactly and they attach. The muntin bars on the outside and on the inside Iraq to an extruded aluminum on the outside -- wires. And on the inside it's an all wood frankly yeah I think that's better than having the divided I let the evidence you have one fail -- the old door -- And the big deal would -- energy it's more energy efficient as a panel that way itself too rather than divide you know a lot of so it's one of our callers blog or special colors is black yeah bill hazard capabilities of doing a lot of custom coloring in this stuff project we chose blackness is the hardware with yet there's no hardware this is an inactive active door. With -- so which one is the active the one who's got the hardware correct. -- the active side with volatile bored out already and this is the inactive side. What's nice about this tour is that you can actually lock this side he can make that your passage side through. But if you do want to open up both sides deacons opened the doors out. And that creates a nice opening as anyway you open into it yes now. It's realize I'd like like about it is that they have these things so yes -- a little bit easier to transport it around the job absolutely."

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