Profiles
This profile with drywall returns is used in cased opening frames.
What is CK or PRO-CK
This anchor is the standard for all KD construction.
What are compression anchors
This would be the numbers shown on an order sheet if a customer wanted four hinges that were each five inches tall.
What is 504?
This construction style gets corner clips to help hold the rails together.
What is KD?
This is how you would typically reach out and open a left hand reversed door. (Act it out, really get into it)
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This is the part of the profile that the door typically runs into when closing.
What is the Stop, Stop Height, or S1?
This anchor is found at the base of the jamb and can sometimes be omitted.
What is a footclip
This closer reinforcement covers the entirety of the inside of a profile, minus the returns.
What is an E17?
This is the type of notch used in drywall construction to make sure the jambs do not run into the wood stud inside the header.
Wall notch
This is what you would do to a KD frame if you took KD's meaning literally. (Act it out, DO IT)
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This is the profile that would typically be used for a mullion in a C Profile frame.
These anchors serve many functions and can be used in place of Steel Channel Anchors, Woodstud Anchors, and Existing Wall Anchors.
What are multipurpose anchors?
This CCW Number is used for our standard GST.
What is 93?
This would be the rail description for a vertical rail in a borrowed light frame with compression anchors.
What is a header?
They don't just have lovely flower fields and wooden clogs, they also have this style door named after them. It has 2 leaves, a top and bottom, that can open and close independently of each other. (Don't act this one out)
What are dutch doors?
While GE is often used in the Header of Double Egress frames, this three-step profile is often used in the jambs of the frame.
What is DEM?
No matter if they are flush or recessed, these anchors need to be welded if they are going to be used with electric hardware.
What are steel channel anchors?
This isn't just on your face! This type of strike is needed for a frame to be labelled.
What is a lip strike?
This miter code would be used for a header when the face is 4" and the jambs' faces are 2".
What is Code F?
Not just what my therapist said I need to do more of, this is also a door frame that has multiple doors using the same frame.
What are communicating frames?
When a KD construction has a face greater than 2" what are the three letters the begin the new profile we would switch to?
What is PRO?
These anchors rest on the returns of the profile instead of being connected to the soffit or rabbets.
What are Masonry Wire or Masonry T anchors?
This is the term for continuous hinges when they are applied to the Frame's Door Rabbet and Door's Hinge Edge. It is also called concealed.
What is full mortise?
This would be the frame construction code used when full welding jambs with 2" faces to a header with a 4" face.
What is SBW?
Are we in Texas?! Bigger may be better, but this is the max rail length we can provide.
What is 126"?