Dan, do you know how many unemployed line carpenters are out there? You kids are all alike, in a hurry always in a hurry. well the geese are moving so you still have time. geeez. I think our bst storm door was on a very very old house and it was a wooden door and yes it had a insert. with the stanley wings n it. you take out the screen and put inthe pane window section. . so where did you get your door home depot or lowes? Lee
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 02:48:09PM -0400, Dan Rossi wrote: > Maybe you call it a screen door, or storm door, whatever, but I have a new > one. Almost. > > Our house used to have one of those crappy sheet Aluminum storm doors > with zero insulation value, noisy when you open and close it, and a stupid > heavy glass window that you had to take out each summer, store it > somewhere, and put it back in the winter. > > Well, I decided to upgrade. I got one of the doors where you just pull > the upper window down and it pulls a rolled up screen down in it's place. > It's got double panes, insulated frame, rubber magnetic seals and dual > closers. > > Of course, I got the wrong size door, so what I hoped to be a quick and > simple project turned out to take a little longer. I tried so hard to > understand exactly what with of door I had, and what I needed to ask for. > i still got it wrong. My door is wider and taller than the standards so > had to get a custom door. I measured from brick mould to brick mould, but > my mistake was that my old door sat inside the brick mould attached to a > secondary frame. The new door, well the flange instead of sitting inside > the brick mould, wrapped around the front of the brick mould. > > At first I didn't think that was an issue, but since the moulding was > beveled, the screws were going through the edge and not holding. So, I > ripped the old brick mould off, and installed a square frame rather than > the decorative beveled moulding. Getting the old stuff off was a lot of > work. I don't know what kind of nails they used 80 years ago, but I swear > they must have been barbed. I also don't know what they used for calking, > it was hard as rock, and was not in any hurry to leave the bricks. > > The big adventures here were that I drew blood a couple of times. You had > to drill pilot holes in the edge of the door for the hinges. The edge is > metal clad. I had the door laying flat on a couple of saw horses and was > drilling into the edge. My hand was above the drill on the door, helping > to keep it straight. The 1/8 inch bit snapped, the drill rammed forward > and up, and the broken spinning bit ran across the underside of my > fingers. No major damage, and I kept working, but Teresa eventually came > out and was a bit annoyed at all the blood on the new door. > > I also nicked myself with a regular old hand saw. I was being stupid and > trying to hurry, I just wanted to rough cut the end off one of the framing > members. I was holding the stick of wood in one hand and the saw in the > other. I got mostly through the wood when it snapped off. It left just a > little spike of wood sticking out the corner and I tried to just rip it > off with one stroke, but the saw snagged, the stick rolled, and I caught > the edge of my finger on the saw. Again, no major damage but more blood > to be cleaned up. > > The door is in, is pretty straight, opens and closes, but I still need to > put the closers on. > > One more task down, 77 to go. > > -- > Blue skies. > Dan Rossi > Carnegie Mellon University. > E-Mail: [email protected] > Tel: (412) 268-9081 -- Far back in the mists of ancient time, in the great and glorious days of the former Galactic Empire, life was wild, rich and largely tax free. Mighty starships plied their way between exotic suns, seeking adventure and reward among the furthest reaches of Galactic space. In those days, spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before -- and thus was the Empire forged. -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" .
