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June 10, 2008
Walk On Through
Hey there Brownstoners, We are looking to turn a almost floor to ceiling window on the garden level into a door to the garden and are looking for an experienced mason (strangely there are surprisingly few entries and recs in the archive). Please give me your recs and any tips or experience you would like to share. Thanks mucho.
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Basonas Construction, Mike Brion. Tell him I sent you. He just did the same thing for me. 718-832-0283. I believe according to code you need a deck under the door. You'll want to shop for the door yourself.
Denton
Posted by: denton at June 10, 2008 1:41 PM
Denton, approx how much did that cost? I've been contemplating a similar project. And do you need a permit to do it?
Posted by: guest at June 10, 2008 3:32 PM
Why stop at a door? Think BIG! When we renovated, we opened up the kitchen to the dining room and replaced the dividing wall with an island. We also added a new powderroom off the kitchen using the doorway out to the rear deck as the entry way to the new bathroom. To gain access to the deck, we took out the two windows in the dining room and replaced them with 6-foot Andersen sliding doors with matching 12-inch transom. All that glass opened up the back of the house and filled the new kitchen-dining room with daylight. We used Tony Vitale. He's in the telephone book under AV Contracting in Brooklyn. He does great work.
Posted by: guest at June 10, 2008 3:55 PM
Thanks all!
Posted by: HomeSweetstuy at June 10, 2008 4:19 PM
Guest 3:55 - are those sliders break in proof?
We are thinking about doing a similar project in our LES tenament that we own but need secure sliders.
Thanks
Posted by: guest at June 10, 2008 4:54 PM
3:32, I paid around 10k, that was to take out the window, add the door, and supply a steel deck and stairs. That also included bricking up a door that existed in the driveway of my semi-detached house. Photo of the new door here (note window to left, that's what door replaced):
http://www.pbase.com/dentontay/image/98486678
Here's the door that was bricked up:
http://www.pbase.com/dentontay/image/98486891
I'm sure there's someone who can do it cheaper but I've worked with this contractor on some very large projects and I'm particular who I let work on the outside of my house.
3:55, I'm doing something similar, on the other side of that door am installing a formal dining room and after that a kitchen with the wall blown out and a counter open to the DR. Lil' hesitant about sliding doors in the back tho, from a security POV.
Oh, also 3:32, this is part of a larger project so it was filed, but I can't imagine not needing a permit. You're changing the entrance and exit to the house, surely the DOB wants to know about that. In fact first filing (for a three-floor Alt-2) was rejected solely cuz the deck details weren't spelled out in great detail on the plans.
Posted by: denton at June 10, 2008 7:03 PM
We are considering installing a door in a brownstone window. We are looking into having a storefront installer put in something with a narrow profile, similar to the existing windows. We are in the process of getting a quote on this:
http://www.kawneer.com/kawneer/north_america/en/product.asp?cat_id=1339&prod_id=1822
ameraleed
Posted by: guest at June 11, 2008 11:30 AM
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