A Couple of More Doors For Ya
This is vaguely self-promotional but it’s also quite interesting so we’re rolling with it. (It’s also the only response we got from anyone to our request for photos of readers’ favorite doors!) Nathan from South Slope Woodworks (a longtime advertiser on the Forum) got a job fabricate two sets of doors for a 12.5-foot-wide brownstone…
This is vaguely self-promotional but it’s also quite interesting so we’re rolling with it. (It’s also the only response we got from anyone to our request for photos of readers’ favorite doors!) Nathan from South Slope Woodworks (a longtime advertiser on the Forum) got a job fabricate two sets of doors for a 12.5-foot-wide brownstone on Waverly Avenue in Clinton Hill. With only the old tax lot photo to work off, they built the doors out of 150-year-old reclaimed long leaf yellow pine that had been salvaged from a demolition in Tribeca. Because the parlor floor ceiling is only 8-feet high, the doors are truly mini-versions of your typical brownstone door. Neato!
Mopar, are you asking how long the actual production takes or how long the lead time is? On this particular set the client won’t be ready to take delivery for more than another month or so(we speak daily) so we are working on them passively. It depends on how involved a job is, but current lead time is ten weeks.
Oh my. How long does it to take to make these?
OK, alright, you want to know how much? Follow this link for a few more details and you will see the price in the album 424 and 426 Waverly.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brooklyn-NY/southslopewoodworks/53194651818
Soooooo…..would these new doors cost about $2,000? Or $12,000? $20,000? (Hopefully not $20,000!)
The conclusion I have come to over the years is that salvage doors are going to be cheaper but they are going to require a lot of work and will not be as structurally sound as new ones.
Long leaf beats out oak any day. Resists water damage better as well.
OMG, Southslope, you make doors! *Faint* Very exciting. OK – how much? Give us a ballpark?
Montrose, I have always wondered about the size issue. Seems like it would be like hunting for a needle in a haystack, but there is all this salvage around and people posting old doors on here like it’s no problem.
amazing, but if you have to ask the cost…….
I am pretty much certain i could have two chevy cobalts fully loaded for less
Yeh, nice doors.
But I’m also digging this tax photo. It’s rare to see one with actual people in it — if you’re lucky, you may see a car. But that group of kids (and maybe a couple of adults, I can’t tell) makes the composition so much more lively and interesting.