Newman Library Door Restoration

You got to have great craftsmanship to do something like this. And you got to know how to use, you know, like I said about every tool when this shop was used, I mean, and you got to know how to operate, you got to have experience of operating the doors were old and coming apart and finish was bad, so all of it needs to be changed out. I mean, they've been around since the early 2000 and you know the weather and you got thousands a day using these doors. I mean, they're constantly operating. So with the weather and, you know, people using and it's just time for new doors. So it's fur Douglas fir and we ordered it from cones at then. Once we receive it, then we have to wed to mail every piece, measure them out. And then just basically just mailing it out and putting it together. Fur is actually considered a soft wood, but it's like a harder softwood, sort of like pine. But you know it's considered a soft wood if you see probably a lot of stuff like out of wood on the exterior is probably going to be made out of fur, well, we just have to plan it out. It's a process. You have to set all of our tools up. Then you usually have to go through the lumber. You'll have to col some of the lumber because a lot of it was twisted up. You can't even use it even though you've already bought it. We've got table saw, we've got our plans, joiners got our shape, our edger. It takes all of that to do it, and then some, well, we just use a lot of glue. A lot of glue and a lot of nails. And just, hey, we're hoping that the finish holds up good. The finish holds up like earlier, that's the life of the door. So we're trying new sprays, you know, to supposed to last longer. I mean, and like I said, we put several coats on these doors, so hopefully will last years to come spraying. Well, obviously we do them in a booth and we lock it. And I have I have a suit and we have an exhaust system because of the chemicals and stuff you spray it with. And it has we did I think I put five coach. I mean, he has to be well experienced in what I will say a finished carpenter. I mean, these doors were just considered finish to me. This is something that you go to see from the outside. I mean, everybody's going to be looking, so it needs to be easy to look nice and you got to have very good experience as a finished carpenter. Yeah. Once we built the first one, we knew the process, knew what we needed to do and to make everything work and make it go faster. We mean, Steve's been working together four or five years now and we're in here most of all the time anyway. So makes it a whole lot better. You got thousands of students, you got faculty staff. I mean, you've got visitors coming in out of these doors constantly, every day, watching people, you know, going in and out of these doors, you know, and just watching people going in and out of them. It's like we did that work. They're really, they're still working. Great, pretty neat, you know? Doors will be around for a long time, hopefully, so.