Video Transcript
Hello and good morning. Today, we're going to be going over a ProVia Legacy 20-gauge steel door install. This customer actually purchased two ProVia doors.
She had a double patio door that we installed yesterday. And we'll go over that. And today, we're going to be installing a single-entry ProVia Legacy steel patio door. So without further ado, let's go check it out.
So we're also replacing all the windows on this home. This is a front facade. You can see we've already replaced all of these windows. So we'll go around to the back, where the patio doors are getting done.
This is fine. So one of the things we like about ProVia is the way they deliver their doors. They deliver the doors wrapped in a cardboard box. And then the door slab itself is protected on the inside. We'll open it up and show you.
One of the differentiators is a lot of our other vendors, they don't take as much care in protecting the finish on the door when they ship it. And so we order these doors factory painted, factory prefinished. Some of our other vendors, the doors would arrive with small little nicks or scratches or whatnot in the finish. Which, you know, they provide touch-up paint.
But the factory finish, it's applied on the factory floor. It's baked on. It has a nice, even finish.
And so when you apply a little bottle of touch-up to the scratch, even if it's the same exact paint color, same formula, the finish, because the paint is drying in the field versus on the factory floor, the finish looks a little different. And sometimes you can get-- it looks almost like polka dot. The finish in the paint.
And a lot of our customers-- or not a lot, but some of them just weren't happy with that. And so ProVia's the only vendor that we actually order factory prefinished doors from. Any of our other vendors, we only after primed.
And so, Pete will go ahead and open this up. So there it is. Nice and blemish-free. And then the door slot itself is also wrapped in this nice plastic wrap. OK. And so this is the interior trim.
And again, we get it factory painted. It comes wrapped in this paper. And there's, I guess, paper in between the trim to protect the finish. So again, we're really happy with the way that ProVia ships their product. It's just one of the many things that sets them apart from most other door vendors.
So one of the reasons we really like ProVia is the exterior cladding they do on their doors. So on the exterior brick mold, they'll wrap it in a PVC-coated aluminum. Its custom bent to the brick mold profile.
So this is the standard 2-inch brick mold. But they have multiple brick mold profiles, and they'll do custom widths on those different brick mold profiles as well. With that aluminum cladding, they also clad the exterior jamb and frame of the door. And so because of that, they can offer a full lifetime warranty on their doors.
So we can come over here and look at some of the detail for the cladding. I can pull this back. You can see, this is your standard wooden brick mold. And the trim coil's custom bent to the same profile.
And then here on the bottom of the brick mold, they actually use-- they have this finger joint, here. And this is a composite material, which will not rot. It doesn't wick up water from the ground.
Because typically on your entry doors, the part that's touching the ground where the water generally will sit, that's usually the first part just to fail. The first part to start rotting. So the bottom few inches is this composite material that won't rot.
So the next thing I'd like to talk about is the security plate. So the security plate doesn't come standard on all of their doors. On all of the doors that we sell and install, we'll typically add the option.
On their Signet and I believe on their Embark product series, the security plate comes standard. Other series, it's an option to add on. It's a pretty inexpensive option. So we just add it for all the ProVia doors we sell.
So with the security plate, when most people-- in the cases of forced entry, when somebody kicks in your door, for example. The part of the door that breaks is really a pretty small piece of the doorjamb. It's a pretty small piece of wood.
So the security plate helps with adding strength to that area on the doorjamb that will typically fail in the case of forced entry. So that's another thing that Provia offers that a lot of other vendors do not offer. Something we really like.
And then the jamb depth-- this one is a 5 and 3/4 jamb. So most other vendors are going to do a 4 and 9/16 or a 6 and 9/16 jamb. They don't offer any custom jamb depths. There are some other vendors that do, but most of the other ones don't. They do 4 and 9/16, 6 and 9/16. 2 by 4 wall, 2 by 6 wall.
And we found in retro fit, even if somebody has a 2 by 4 or a 2 by 6 wall, to get a nice fit and finish, we like doing a custom jamb depth to again, provide a nice finish. So that's another thing we really like with Provia, is they allow custom jamb depths.
Another thing we like about ProVia is they offer a frame-saver jamb. Now this one isn't necessarily unique to ProVia. There are a lot of vendors offering great frame-saver jambs.
What I mean by frame-saver is, just like the brick mold over here with the composite bottom, the bottom-- and it's difficult to see on the door, because it's been painted. You kind of see a line right there. About the bottom couple inches are the same composite material.
They don't wick moisture from the ground. They won't rot. Because again, we go to other people's homes, or people that are interested in replacing their door, this bottom part of the jamb or the threshold, sits against the wood. It's typically-- that's the first part to go.
It'll be all rotted down here. Where after a rainstorm, you know, the water just sits here. So again, one thing we like about ProVia is they offer that composite bottom jamb.
All right, so Pete got a little excited. He's already torn the existing door out. And he's prepping the opening for the new door. So we just wanted to get a little shot.
As you can see, this is the old door. This is the old doorjamb. It actually looks like it's in not too bad a shape. But the door itself is-- it's a pretty old door.
All right, so one of the things that Pete pointed out when he was installing this door or when he tore out the old door, it's something he said he sees a lot. You know, Pete has replaced a lot of entry doors. So this is the jack stud. So the king stud is on the other side of it.
And typically, the way most homes are framed, the door openings, they'll nail from the king stud into the jack stud. And so if you look over here, there were no nails going from this jack stud on this side into the king stud. All of these screws you see here were just added by Pete, you know, five minutes ago or so.
And so he put a couple 45 going into the header. And he also screwed this jack stud into the king stud. Because again, previously, the only thing holding this here typically is some nails coming from the king stud into the jack stud.
And so the old door was hinged on this side. And this is, I believe-- yeah. The new door's going to be hinged on this side, too. And so most of the weight is hanging on this stud. And so if the only thing you have is nails coming this way into the jack stud, the weight of that door over time, it pulls this stud away from the king stud.
And the end result is you've got a door that-- you know, this bottom corner will stick and be difficult to operate over time. This becomes a problem. And so a lot of the issues with doors, door operation, is these studs moving around. Pete says he sees that all the time. It's one of the biggest reasons why people's doors don't operate correctly.
And really, there's no proper way to fix it without removing your door and reinforcing the stud and reinstalling the new door. And so Pete, he's actually added some screws over here as well. And kind of at the top and on the hinge side, he'll add even more screws for more support. And so that's kind of one thing that Pete looks out for.
And one thing that I believe sets Brennan apart is we take those extra steps to reinforce the framing of your home. Because when we come out and replace your door, we do provide great craftsmanship and products with great warranties. So if there is any issue in the future, we'll take care of it.
But we tend to believe, and I think homeowners would like it as well, that once something is replaced, they don't want to have to deal with it. And so that's why we take those extra steps and precautions to make sure every product we install is installed correctly. And there's no room for failure down the line.
All right, another thing we'd like to point out that kind of sets the Brennan Installation apart is you can see Pete has cleaned up where this bottom threshold is going to go. So there was a bunch of glue and loose grout and whatnot. And so it doesn't take very long, a couple minutes, to just clean this area up. Have a nice clean surface.
And I say clean. I mean, you know, here it looks still kind of dirty. But there is a bunch of gunk and stuff in here that we clean up, so we have a nice clean surface. And we'll put some adhesive down here.
And another thing I wanted to point out on the ProVia-- you can see, we've got the frame sitting here. Pete's about to set the frame. Is on the bottom threshold. So you can see here, there's the threshold. Here's the interior. It's an adjustable threshold, so you've got these screws that you can raise and lower the threshold.
But one thing to point out is the door jamb is screwed into the threshold. A lot of the lower-cost, or what would be referred to as a builder-grade vendors, they don't screw. They staple. And so over time, those staples work loose.
And then through repeated traffic walking over the threshold, the threshold starts moving. And you can feel it when you walk over the threshold. So again, just another thing that sets ProVia apart from the competition and the Brennan Installation apart from the competition.
All right, so before Pete-- before he puts the door down, he's going to put some sealant adhesive. It's a Novaflex-- it is that silicone? Put a nice big bead down. So not only does it help with sealing, it also helps support the threshold. When you walk over it, you shouldn't feel any give. It should feel nice and solid.
And please forgive me if we're picking up some water noise. We've got a koi pond over here. Nice little bit of paradise in the customer's backyard.
And so here, we use 3-inch stainless self-tapping screws. So he'll peel that weather stripping back so he won't damage it. So for now, he'll just set-- what was it, four? So for now, he'll just do four screws in each corner to initially set the door. And you can see, he's checking, making sure everything's square and level.
He'll set those four screws, just initially set the door. And then from there he'll go in and shim the door and whatnot. And so again, he's using a 3-inch stainless steel screw.
[POWER TOOL OPERATING]
He had informed me that most doors he replaces, a lot of builders actually use just nails to set their doors. So one of the nice things-- and there he is, checking for square. And so yeah, he informed me that builders, in a lot of doors he replaces, they just use nails to set the doors. So one of the advantages of using screws is--
[POWER TOOL OPERATING]
--if the door does move around at any point, you can always go back and back those screws out or tighten them up to adjust the door.
So here we are inside after he had just set the door. It's a little tight. So getting footage is going to be a little difficult. The brightness might change on me, here. But you can see, the door is in here, square. And so here's one of the screws. He always puts it behind the weather stripping, so they're nice and hidden.
And then when he mounts the door, he'll use two 3-inch screws to go through the door frame into the stud. And then these other two screws will be the screws supplied by ProVia. And from there, he'll mess with the shimming and whatnot to make that reveal gap nice and even.
See, and there he is, using an airbag to lift the door up. That's how he can do this-- hang a door, one man. So here we go. The door is set for the most part. There's the exterior. I mean, from the exterior, it doesn't really look a whole lot different. So we'll go inside.
Close this door. Hopefully it won't-- OK, so we still have yet to install the hardware. There's a nifty little receiver we'd like to show you on the hardware. But as you can see, the reveal gap for the most part is nice and even. We'll still adjust it a little bit.
But that's one thing, whenever I go to a customer's home that's looking interested in replacing their door, or they complain about their door that's not operating properly. And an existing door, not necessarily one that we've installed. One of the first things I'll look at-- usually, I'll start in the corner-- is the reveal gap. I'm talking about this gap, here.
And you go left or right. Or not necessarily left or right, but you go from one side to the other and then look from top to bottom. And a properly set door, that reveal gap should be even the entire way across the door and from top to bottom. It's a very easy thing to diagnose and see. And yeah, it's the first thing I'll look at. If the reveal gap's not right, it's pretty easy to say that they're going to need to at the very least reset their door.
So another thing I'll point out-- I don't know if it'll show up very well. Yeah, you can see, there's that 3-inch screw. So it's enough to go through the door frame and then into this jack stud. And maybe even a little bit into the king stud. So again, we use 3-inch stainless self-tapping screws standard on all of our door installs.
All right, so this is a door that we installed yesterday, or Pete installed yesterday. Same door. It's a ProVia Legacy 20-gauge steel door. I guess one thing I forgot to point out when I was going over the door earlier is the Legacy doors are 20-gauge steel.
Most other vendors on their steel doors they use a 24-gauge, which is a thinner gauge. So again, another thing that sets ProVia apart from the competition. So this is a similar door. Same paint color, full view, all that. Obviously, it's a double door. The door we're installing today is a single-entry door.
Another difference is they have this flat-- I believe this is 3 and 1/2 inch-- brick mold. And this is wrapped. Just like the other door, the frame is wrapped. So here's a clear example of yet another brick mold or exterior casing option that ProVia provides. There's a nice little spider.
So this is a double door. This is what we'll call the main door or the main active door. This is an active-passive configuration. You can go passive-active. You can do it to where only one door opens and it's hinged on the side. Only one door opens and it's hinged in the middle.
There's a bunch of different combinations you can go with. You can go with a three or four-panel door, where the two on each side are fixed and the two in the middle open. There's a lot of different options.
This is, again, active-passive. So the active door panel, you can see, it operates like a normal door. The passive door panel, this is a dummy handle. It doesn't open the door. It doesn't really do anything. I mean, you can use it to open or close the door when the door is unlocked. And it matches the active door panel.
So we'll open the active panel. And I'll show you how to open the passive panel. So one thing we really like with ProVia, built into the door astragal-- and the astragal's this middle part, right here. On the side of the door, you lift this lever to unlock the door. It's very simple. And now the door's unlocked. And you can use that handle to open and close the door.
So again, very simple. And then to lock it, again you just push it closed over the handle. And it is spring-loaded. So if those shoot bolts don't line up perfectly, you can [HAMMERING] the door, and eventually they'll find their way home and lock.
So there is a shoot bolt that goes in the top of the door frame. And there's a little steel reinforcement plate up here. And then it goes on the bottom of the door as well. So again, if we unlocked it, very simple.
Now it's locked. So we can get some detail. You can get some detail on the bottom. So there is some weather stripping and whatnot down here. And again, it is spring-activated. So I'll lower it. And you can see, there's the spring action.
So when the door is closed, and I'll throw that shoot bolt. It forms a nice, tight seal. Very air-tight. energy-efficient. And then the active door forms a nice, tight seal against this Q-LON weather stripping. So that's how you open and close a double entry door from ProVia.
So here's another differentiator from ProVia. This is the door latch striker plate. And you can see it's got this little piece of metal right here that sticks out. And you can kind of see the edge right there.
And then this is the plate. This actually goes behind the striker plate. And you can see it has these little lines. They're scored into the surface. And it's got these oval-shaped holes.
And so you put the striker plate on top of-- I guess we'll call this back plate the keeper plate. And that little piece of metal I pointed out earlier, it lines up with these lines. So you can adjust it, again, with those oval holes on the back. So when you tighten everything down, you screw everything in, this piece of metal bites into these score lines. It's very difficult to capture this all on camera.
So for whatever reason the door moves around a lot, your foundation moves. We are in North Texas. Foundation movement is very common here. You can loosen those screws a little bit and adjust this keeper plate. So again, something very-- it's, I guess, kind of future-proof. Something ProVia-- it's a pretty basic or simple concept and design, but not a lot of other vendors are doing it. And it's yet another reason why we really like ProVia and the quality that they provide.
So another thing I'd like to point out for the hardware from ProVia is on the dead bolt strike plate. They have what's called a dust cover. So you can see in here, it's a little piece of metal that goes in here. It provides a nice, clean, finished look.
And if we go here on the inside, let's see if we can get this thing to focus so it'll show up. Let me close the door, so it's not some bright. Man, it's really hard to tell. But you can see-- I don't know if you can see that. You can see that dust cover sticking out past the security plate. Again, this is a security plate we talked about earlier. Not only is the security plate attached to the jamb, now you've got, again, additional 3-inch screws going through everything, providing yet more security.
All right, so here, Pete has just installed the adjustable strike plate. I asked him to keep it a little loose for me. So here you can see how you can adjust it, there. You've got your entire hole, right? Or you can move it out, and now the hole is smaller. So again, you can adjust that. And that's how that works.
And one thing Pete pointed out to me, which I forgot to mention earlier, if you don't have this adjustable strike plate. And say, for some reason, you need to adjust your door. Or you can see the door, it's got this mortise, here, for your strike plate and whatnot. So you've got just a normal door, where you don't have this adjustable strike plate.
And you need to move it, because your door doesn't latch anymore. Typically, what you're going to have to do, you're going to have to take this off. And you're going to have to drill new holes into your wood. And so if you've got all these holes right next to each other, eventually, that wood, it's just all going to get eaten out. And now you've just got a screw sticking in there that's not really biting on anything.
So with this adjustable strike plate, it's still the original hole. You don't need to drill new holes. You don't need to mess with the mortise. Again, just another great design choice from ProVia.
So the door is in. Let's go take a look inside. Last thing we need to do is we'll foam this gap, all these gaps. Put a low-expansion foam in there.
The door has been shimmed. Let's see. I don't believe there's any shims up top. So you can still see a little bit of daylight. It just needs to be sealed and foamed.
And here's our shims. Let's see. And there's a shim. We use composite shims. Apologies for the quality. It's kind of a tight space in here.
Let's see, here's some shims near the keeper. Again, composite shims. These aren't going to rot or anything like that. So Pete was telling me he likes to shim just the bottom hinge. So in the future, if this door needs to be adjusted at all, he can come back out here and tighten up or loosen one of the screws he put in this hinge.
And let's see if I can open it up. You can see these brass hinges or screws were provided with the hinge. These stainless screws are the 3-inch screws that are going through the door frame. Through the hinge, through the door frame, into the stud. And so he can tighten these up or back them out and adjust that door.
Let's see. He can adjust that door just using the screws on that hinge in the future, should we need to. So if he shimmed everything, it makes adjusting the door in the future much more difficult. And so that's why he likes to do it that way.
In the future, if you shimmed everything, you'd have to pull the trim off. Pull some of your shims. Adjust it that way. Versus this way, you just tighten up or loosen some screws. You don't have to remove any trim. You don't really have to do anything.
And, I mean, most DIY people, they can do it themselves. It's a very simple process. So that's the way he likes to do it. And we've had plenty of success with shimming the door that way.
And so the door install is, for the most part, complete. We still have to caulk and seal the exterior. But there's the door. We'll go take a look inside. Again, it's kind if a tight fit. Yeah, so there's the interior.
Interior trim has been applied. We need to put some wood putty in there and do a little touch-up. And this is factory-supplied trim from ProVia. It's color matched to the interior finish of the door. I guess that's one thing I didn't point out. I don't know if any of you all noticed the door has a two-tone finish. It's a white interior and like a tan exterior.
And so here's the door installed. And let's take another look at the keeper. You can see, Pete has set it such that-- it's adjusted such that when you close the door, you have to push on the door a little bit. And it forms a nice, tight seal all the way around on this Q-LON weather stripping.
We can show that here. Here is just kind of loosely closing the door. And if I give it a push, you can hear it click. Now it's sealed in there nice and tight on the exterior. Nice and airtight.
Very easy to operate the deadbolt. Doesn't stick anywhere or anything like that. This is a really great product. A really great install.
All right, so here we have the tools of the trade. This is everything that's typically going to be used in a door install. We'll just start left to right. And you'll notice everything here is cordless.
So we've got a miter saw, here, for cutting trim and whatnot. Getting you those nice miters. Got a little battery-powered blower. Expanding foam with a gun to get nice and precise. A pneumatic nailer for those nice finish nails on the trim and whatnot.
And this thing is like a Dremel. It's for cutting baseboards and whatnot. It operates like a Dremel, but you can get it in nice in tight spaces. And it's got this flat piece versus a circular blade. A lot easier to use.
And this is a grinder with a diamond tip for cutting tile. And you've got your typical reciprocating saw, typical circular saw. And then your tool belt with your hammer, impact driver, measuring tape, pry bar, utility knife, screwdriver-- all the essential items in a tool belt.
So that's it for the most part. All the tools that'll need to be used. You can get by with less, but you might need a couple trips to the hardware store. And with all this, we can get everything done on pretty much every door install. You shouldn't run into any unforeseen problems that you can't solve with these tools.
And last but not least, we've got a trash receptacle. We like to keep the job site nice and clean. And then a shop vac.
So our installers like the work smarter, not harder. If you continually clean up your job site as you're going along versus waiting until the end, and you got a giant mess, it's just a lot easier. And the customer's happier. So we like to take the approach where, short of having new windows or a new door installed, you shouldn't know we were here.
All right, so that about covers it for this project. If you liked the video, please give us a like or subscribe. Thanks for watching.
