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These are case studies from projects in progress. Each one is a single page for a single job, updated with a dated entry every time something happens: a survey, a decision, a problem on site, a delivery, the install. We write down what we found, what we decided and why, including when the answer was to change the plan. When the job finishes the page stays as the record of how it went. Finished projects with their final photographs are in the portfolio; articles and guides are on the news page.
Current Case Studies
An HPD violation on a vestibule door: magnetic lock out, key lockset in, nine days to do it
A Class C notice on a glass vestibule in Astoria, Queens: remove the electromagnetic lock and provide a heavy-duty key-operated lockset. What the notice means, how the door is made compliant, and why nine days is not enough to replace a door.
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Will a standard-size Pella door fit? Measuring the existing openings first
Three measurements checked against a standard 33½ × 81½ inch door unit: one opening fits, one has no clearance at the head, and one needs to be measured again once the old frame is out. Plus what a 9½-inch-deep wall means for the frame.
Read the log →52 East 64th Street — reviewing the shop drawings, and two sets of windows get smaller
A meeting with the client on the latest window shop drawings: the rear windows come down from 77 to 72 inches and the front windows from 108 to about 84. Now waiting for the client’s confirmation and for the architect’s response to the original submittal, and why the revised set has to replace the first one before anything is ordered.
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Andersen 400 Series double-hung windows — black outside, white inside
Another project supplied with Andersen 400 Series: why the black-and-white combination looks so good, how each window arrives in its own carton with foam corners, film and temporary sash locks, and the trim kit that comes with the order.
Read more →Fire-Rated Glass at 60 Minutes — Where Wired Glass Saves Money and Where It Cannot
A client asked for 60-minute fire-rated glass and a glazed smoke baffle and asked us to keep the cost down. The log works through the ladder — safety-filmed wired glass, clear ceramic, fire-resistive multilaminate — and where the code lets the cheap one in: the baffle and small door lites yes; anything with a polished edge, a cutout or a 60-minute wall rating, no.
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5101 Beach 51st Street, Sea Gate — from a daylight opening to a screen that fits
A custom FlexScreen mosquito screen for an awning window. The daylight measures 27⅝″ × 11½″; the screen is ordered at 29⅛″ × 13″. The entry explains the 1½″ and why it is the whole job.
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2555 Nostrand Avenue, Midwood — a black anodized wide-stile door for a bathroom
Two black anodized wide-stile aluminum doors with white laminated safety glass for bathrooms in a commercial fit-out. Surveyed in September between the finished porcelain faces; installed in October with pull handles, occupancy-indicator locks and hinge-side finger guards.
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