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This is the part where I cringe…

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Along with all the other things that are being replaced on the porch? You can add the front door. It’s original to the house and has been leaking cold air in the winter ever since we moved in. It’s shifted, barely closes properly and requires me taping it shut every December so the wind doesn’t whistle its way in.

A new door is necessary but that doesn’t mean I want my husband in charge of its replacement. He’s the king of gerry rigging and that’s not going to fly here. I wanted to wait and have a contractor to do it… he says he needs to do it now before he installs the stone siding.

So this is where I get nervous.

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Storm door removal?

Fine.

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Protective glass covering the side panel removal?

Fine.

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But then we moved indoors where the new floor was recently installed.

In order to replace a door you need rough opening measurements… and this means removing the moulding.

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My husband’s track record with this task is not good.

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But thankfully he managed the job without splintering anything.

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I know he’s going to faint when we go door shopping because it will have to be a special order.

Ka-Ching.

This paycheck sucking project never ends.

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27 thoughts on “This is the part where I cringe…”

  1. That the new floors look amazing!

    It’s always something with these old houses isn’t it…

    Speaking of doors, the bathroom door at my mom’s house is in the rec room. It fell off its hinges and trying to tighten the screws didn’t work, the holes are all chewed up.

    I will have to find a way to fix this today. Do I know how to fix doors? No. But I’m sure I’ll be able to figure it out somehow… 😵‍💫

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    2. I’ve had this problem quite a bit on this thing and that. What you do is squirt some Elmer’s glue in the screw holes, jam them full of toothpicks and let them sit for a couple hours. It’s like the holes were never there at all. This should help. Hope so anyway.

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      2. By all means do so. You should be pleased as long as the surrounding wood is sound. And when I say jam I mean jam, so give it Hell. Thanks for your reply, it put a smile on my face.😊

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  3. I lived in a neighborhood with most doorways messed up. There was a quarry about a mile away and you could feel the blasting. Every door seemed to have a crack over the frame. Very disconcerting…

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    1. In Maine it’s the frost heaves in winter. I don’t care how well a home is built, everything shifts over time. Doors, windows, decks, porches. Everything cracks and moves.

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  7. Wow, home improvement costs never end, fun times. The front door to my house is original, from 1969 and it shows. It’s a large, heavy door that had a gap at the bottom and you could fee the draft when its windy. I installed weather stripping around it and put a draft guard to keep the wind and debris from flying in. And the previous owners replaced all the interior doors with those cheap hollow ones, I need to replace all of them if only one at a time. I feel ya River, I feel ya.

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    1. My husband said something similar the other day… he pointed out we’ve spent nearly 2/3rds the price we paid for the house 20 years ago.
      Now that’s sad, considering we haven’t touched the kitchen or baths.

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