DOORS, MILLWORK & HARDWARE SCHEDULES · DOVETAIL CROSSING · EST. 2015
Every hinge decided before the truck loads.
Sawyer & Vane hangs doors, rebuilds stair halls and builds libraries — and writes a hardware schedule for every opening before a single order is placed: hinge count and finish, backset, knob or lever, per door. Mixed plating and wrong backsets are the quiet way millwork projects fail; ours fail to fail.
What we do
Three lines of work, one schedule
Doors & passage
Prehung or slab, mortised, eased and tuned until the latch catches at a finger’s weight — the nickel-slide standard. Salvaged 1920s sets reworked and re-pinned; pocket doors that stay in the wall; barn hardware that hangs like it means it. Every door goes on the schedule with its own hinge finish, backset and trim.
Stair halls
Treads, risers, scribed skirts, rail and balusters — rebuilt or new, with newels bolted through the framing. The one part of a house people trust with their whole weight, built like it: load-walked before we call it done.
Libraries & case walls
Floor-to-ceiling cases with ladder rails, window seats with drawers below, pantries that earn their footprint. Drawn full-scale, bench-built in numbered pieces, pre-finished lying flat — furniture that happens to belong to the room.
The hardware schedule, line by line
Hinges, per dooron the card
Count, size and finish named — US3, US5, US10, satin nickel or black
Backset, per openingmeasured free
2¾ in standard; 2⅜ in legacy measured, never assumed
Knob, lever or trim$64–340
Make and finish, agreed per door before ordering
Pocket & barn hardwarequoted per run
Track, hangers and pulls specified to the wall’s thickness
Schedule draftingincluded
Written, read back to you, signed — then ordered once
The schedule is the order
What the schedule says is what arrives and what gets installed — hinge for hinge, finish for finish. If a line is ever wrong on our side, the replacement and the morning it costs are ours. No “they sent satin” Tuesdays.
Client work, Dovetail Crossing
Openings, opened and shut
Doors, halls and libraries from the last two years, photographed at walkthrough with the schedules still taped to the jambs.
How it goes
From measure to latch
The same sequence on every job — the only variable is your project.
Visit 1
The measure
Openings counted, walls read, hardware discussed over the actual doors — not a website. About ninety minutes, free, and the count sheet leaves with you.
Day 3
The schedule & the quote
Hardware written per opening and priced from the card; the quote applies it to your rooms line by line. Both fixed for thirty days.
Weeks 1–3
The bench
Doors machined, stair parts milled, cases built and pre-finished flat in three coats — crated in install order, numbered to the schedule.
Last day
The latch walkthrough
Every door opened, swung and latched with you watching; every reveal checked with the same six-inch level the first cut was made with.
The schedule ledger
They read the hardware schedule back to us over the phone, hinge by hinge, for twenty-two doors. I thought it was a formality until our friends’ build stopped twice for wrong finishes in the same month.
The stair hall was the job; the schedule is why we signed. It read like the builder was allergic to surprises, and the install proved it — three quiet days, nothing returned, nothing back-ordered.
Our salvaged 1920s latch sets were “unusable” according to two other crews. Sawyer & Vane re-pinned them, wrote them onto the schedule like anything else, and they latch better than the new ones.
Before you book
Questions from the doorway
The ones every client asks about doors, schedules and salvaged hardware — answered the way we answer them in the room.
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Why a schedule for hardware at all?
Because hardware is where millwork quietly goes wrong — mixed finishes, wrong backsets, hinges that arrive for a door that was hung for others. One page per job, approved by you, ordered once. It costs twenty minutes at the measure and kills the worst kind of Tuesday.
Can I choose my own hardware?
Gladly — bring the catalogue to the measure and every choice goes on the schedule with its make, finish and backset. We will tell you honestly if something on your list fights the doors or the era of the house; better at the bench than on install morning.
Doors: prehung or slab?
Slab, mostly, machined by us — prehung units assume the wall is plumb and no old wall is. We mortise, bore to the measured backset, hang and tune to a nickel-slide, and the stops get adjusted after the room is painted, not before.
What does the nickel-slide mean?
A properly hung door, opened a few inches, stays where you leave it — and pushed gently, it closes on the latch under its own weight. It is the oldest door test there is and the only acceptance standard we need.
Bring the openings. We will bring the schedule.
The measure is free, the schedule is signed before anything is ordered, and both are yours to take to any crew you like.