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So as we move forward here we're going to be moving into our door prep area. This is
where we take care of all our steel, fiberglass, and wood doors. The reason that we have a separate
area for this is because we want to make sure that everything is prepped in one area, that
all the contaminants and dust are kept in one area, and that we don't filter that throughout
the rest of our finish facility. As we move forward here, you're going to see that we
do multiple wood doors in here. We have flush doors, we have panel doors of all types of
configurations, we also do our steel and our fiberglass in here. We also have doors that
have glass inserts in them. We need to mask those doors off, we need to fill in the nail
holes on the sticking with putty, and then we're going to sand the doors top to bottom
before they run down the line. Each one of our sanding and prep areas has a set of Inspecto-Lights.
Those lights are used to shine across a door so it's easier for our employees to pick out
defects that might come from our manufacturer or in the handling process as it comes into
our facility. As you look across stile and rail doors, there is what we call cross-sanding.
There are marr marks on the doors, it is these guys' job to make sure that they sand all
of that out. He's going to sand-orbit top to bottom and then he's going to run the door
over to the line and let it go down the Opti-Sand. What is going to hit these profiled areas
and knock down any furring effects or roughness on the sticking. Each door is prepped one
side, goes through, the door is going to be flipped, brought back around on the rollers,
and then it's going to be prepped on the opposite side for the second time through. Once it's
been prepped on both sides and all edges, then it's going to go through the overhead
door back here and it's going to head down to our finish line. As the door comes through
there is yet another set of Inspecto-Lights. This is the last opportunity for this door
to be checked for any defects. As the operator comes and checks the door over, if it is good,
Ryan is going to flip the door, bring it to the other side so the second side can be completed.
Again, once the door has been completed, they are shuffled from this area on to different
carts. As you can see behind Ryan onto different pallets so that they can go through to get
to the finish line. Those carts over there are going to be going to our customs area
and then also the steel and fiberglass doors will get re-palletized and they will go to
our paint and stain fiberglass area.