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A rectangular door in an arched opening

Dan Ross on fitting a door to an arched brick opening without cutting the brick: a rectangular door inside, corners filled in solid to form the curve, and a brick mold outside for the storm door.

Dan Ross, D.W. Ross Company. 1:02.

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So, we got a call yesterday. Customer wants a radius top storm door. So, we went out to template that and he wants to replace the door behind it. And when you look at the door from the outside, the door is radius. But when you go to the inside and you look at the door, it's rectangular.

This corner is all filled in solid so that forms the curvature of the brick opening. So, most people think that they can just put in a rectangular door into that opening. But what happens if you open the door, you see the backside of the brick. And it's hard to explain to the customer how we have to do it, but we built those doors before.

And once that's done, then they got a brick mold on the outside that follows that curvature and the storm door mounts to that brick mold. We know how to build them. So, we're going to build that door for the customer. It should be a pretty cool piece when it's done. And that's what this is turning into here.

Dan Ross, Vice President, D.W. Ross Company

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