Practicing the lost art of maintenance and repair of antique pocket doors-retrieving knowledge of a bygone era (1875-1925 approx) In the late 1980s, when customers asked me to fix a pocket door, I said "I'll come to take a look." I looked high...and I looked low...and every place where a pocket door might go. I used up a lot of batteries. After much head scratching, squinting and research, 35 pocket doors gave up their secrets. In 1992 I closed my furniture repair business to become a stay-at-home father-for 15 years. Incomplete set of wheel assemblies? Ask how I might be able to fabricate or locate replacements. Broken mechanisms or parts in need of rebuilding? Email details along with good photos. Do you/your contractor require tutoring by email in order to effect a repair? From June 14, 1990 Boston Globe Magazine Now, since the Spring of 2008, Boston has a full time pocket door expert. I have the skill, the patience and the resources to get your Victorian era sliding doors back to working condition.
Now...when you call, you are getting a seasoned craftsman who has fixed more than 170 sets of pocket doors. I still might say "I'll come to take a look" and now when I squint, it's because I wear glasses! Everything about pocket doors calls forth enthusiasm and you will be delighted when you no longer say "We don't use them."in the 1980s he appeared on WGBH's "This Old House" program (donated work for the Bigelow project in Newton)-Now specializes in pocket doors-knows them backward and forward!! [groan and bear it <:d)] I suggest that you email me, but if you wish, you can send me a text message (617-792-4676) Texting is the least intrusive way to reach me-if I'm working on doors or fabricating in the shop. [I don't have mobile email] Stephen Thorp Boston, MA Restoration of carriage house sliding doors While I was canvassing a neighborhood rich with Victorian style houses, a couple said to me, "Our pocket doors work fine, but can you fix carriage house doors?"
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