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French Door and Weep Holes on the Balcony

Bob starts on the balcony of the Manhattan Brownstone where open space was standard for these urbsan town homes. The balcony of this floor-through apartment is actually large enough to be outdoor living space. Bob shows the custom Pella French doors that match the character and era of the Brownstone, tall to bring in the northern light and clad in black metal as was the trim of the 1890s. It was necessary to build up the masonry around the new door, which now matches the original facade. The painted brick on the back wall will be power washed or sanded to remove the paint. Bob also points out the weep holes that have been installed in the header above the doors. These weep holes will allow water that has penetrated the brick to exit without doing damage. Inside, Bob looks at the custom Pella double-hung one-over-one windows that mirror the original windows of the building.

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French Door and Weep Holes on the Balcony

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" New York City brownstones often benefit from open space in the rear gardens backyards and what we have is a little balcony off of our. Master bedroom in our floor through this not that little actually it's big enough that it's outdoor living space and we had a door arrangement that was obsolete so we'd just replaced it with French doors. From Pella which are our custom made doors -- the opening is that the main thing we've got a very tall opening here and that lets a lot of -- northern light into the room. But we also wanted to make sure that it was going to be consistent with the look of the the brownstone so this is clad in. Black metal and it's been made to the right size we had to build in the masonry opening with new brick. But the key thing is that it's a brick that matches the rest of the building even though here on the backside somebody had painted it. At some point we probably blast that off water blast it -- clean it and the top with a header course of brick is I wanted to point out the who weep holes those little openings that you see there those vertical things are. Away for condensate. Water. Which can form between the inside of the brick and the steel header that's back there to drip out so that you don't have corrosion or water infiltration into the into the building. In here this is the space that's our bedroom. We've also installed a replacement window from Pella again -- have to be custom made to. The existing -- season and the main thing is that there double hung one over one and that's the style that was prevalent in the 1890s."

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