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Custom Door Installation

Bob meets with Curt Weiss from J.W. Door who has made a custom door unit for the Los Angeles remodel, with glass lights designed in an arts and crafts style and wooden stops that resemble old putty stops. Cortney does the installation.
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Custom Door Installation

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" Let's say hello -- and JW door company out here and they've made up these custom doors type numbers. So this is the frame for the other bedroom entrance. -- I -- knees looked really really good. Thank you the -- that design I noticed something that the homeowner -- architect came up with but how did you -- of the actual us. The actual outside here's the Stiles and rails and yet. The patty lookalike -- the stone shape where we made up especially like to duplicate the party. They used to doing the right home so that although we're looking at what looks to be an angle of -- body -- window glazing it back. Right it -- right that's correct and of course substrate being our. Vertical window turns OK so this is a double in this when that you're bringing us forward doors and what's the cost of a custom -- like this the serious about 3500 dollars terrific. Thanks thanks Bob we're gonna put it him. How can I give you -- hand over here with a demolition you bet. -- this download it. Thanks to you've already done all the pre cutting from the other side and it just. Yes we actually put in new header aware of it has already closed up by despair were in Apollo. Pray that we can methods tilted back. And then this can also coming out. Test while the rest of the water. All right we'll all the demolition out of the way you can look at this has been reframed. He's added a couple of studs. He's put it slowly pattern doubled and doubled up across all wet."

" And now he's putting in some spacers blocking on this side but I wanted to give you look at the original things down here you'll notice -- So this is the top of the existing. Flooring. It's already been -- the sun in the south earlier but -- protest. This is sub flooring on the dad and we are ready and went down our little flashing and here -- ROK -- the way -- With the sun getaway. This galvanized laughing and this of course is a good idea from the point of view. Dan and insect damage just but it now as roofing else."

" Okay this should fit like it left. Spokeswoman. OK now is -- shingles. I hadn't. I was little l'Oreal warlord that innocent that's it that's. In this respect. And to -- it's good looking."

" top their children move anymore."

" And moved."

" It it. -- the other side -- this is standing in place."

" Right Bob we're just you know -- cactus jam up -- wolf for the doors it. And work fine tuning from there."

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