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(12-15-2021, 10:20 AM)Drunk Monk Wrote: If it's not urgent, it'd probably fit in my CRV. But I won't have the availability to help you until after the holidays... Don't you have enough to do? Jesus, it wears me out just reading about what you do in any given day. I won't drag you into this.
I've rethought this matter. The house has 3 storm doors, and if I bought three of them, the delivery cost would be more sensible. But only the kitchen door takes the brunt of the weather. The front and back door don't get directly hit.
Just went for a stroll through the neighborhood. Lots of new or renovated houses. Almost none of them have a storm door, at least for the front door. Of the older houses, maybe half have storm doors on their front. Maybe there's been a shift to better main doors, making storm doors irrelevant. Although a lot of the places seem to choose aesthetics over function. Some really nice front doors!
I remember what my dad would do every fall. He'd remove the screens from all the windows, and then he'd staple plastic over where they'd been. This really helped with the bitter cold winters. I just assumed that everyone back there did that. Maybe they did, maybe they didn't.
Maybe I could do something like that for the storm door.
I'll give it some more thought.
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(12-15-2021, 12:20 PM)cranefly Wrote: (12-15-2021, 10:20 AM)Drunk Monk Wrote: If it's not urgent, it'd probably fit in my CRV. But I won't have the availability to help you until after the holidays... Don't you have enough to do? Jesus, it wears me out just reading about what you do in any given day. I won't drag you into this.
Fair, but I felt I should offer.
I won't help you hang a door tho. That's a bitch.
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The number of doors I have hung are without count....
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I moved a sliding screen door on the roof of my old car with no rack. I bought a pack of thick sponges to rest it on, and roped it down through the back windows, with another front to back rope.
Anyway, that lady has an easy couple of inches more on her shoulder, so it will fit.
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Maybe just swap one of the still-good side doors for the brutalized kitchen door?
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I feel bad about our bungalow back door. I suspect it’s an original which would make it over a century old. It’s been painted over several times and is an unusual width and make. There’s an ancient lock that doesn’t work, a newer deadbolt that used to work and a latch that works. It’s crooked and no where near flush. I cut a cat door into it. Now Yuki has scratched the crap out of it going in and out. We’ll have to replace it someday.
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(12-15-2021, 05:43 PM)Dr. Ivor Yeti Wrote: Maybe just swap one of the still-good side doors for the brutalized kitchen door? Hah! I had that thought, and I acted on it. There's a storm door on the studio, and it won't even close anymore. Because the studio was built without a foundation, it's settled in odd ways. That storm door clobbers the concrete in the breezeway if I try to close it. And that doorway is so out of square that I've had to adjust the main door hinges multiple times and now it's down to hanging by a single hinge, and just barely fitting -- sort of. Gotta be careful nursing it open.
But that storm door. I just took it off and disassembled it down to the screen. I couldn't use the door directly because it opens the wrong way.
So now I just have to disassemble the bad kitchen storm door and substitute the good screen for the bad. A screen will at least keep rain from hitting the door.
Dusk and sprinkles stopped me. Might have to wait a couple days to resume. You might say I'm between doors right now. And I'm anxious for my screen test.
As for DM's back door, I'm reminded of Winchester Mystery House, where bannisters or doors of rare and fancy-grained wood (walnut?) were painted over with some plain color, and the tour guide felt that the widow had instructed the workers to do this on purpose -- as a nonsensical oddity.
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If you have to put in the screen with a spline (the rubber tube thing in the groove) then I advise getting a new spline and a splining tool (basically a handle with rollers on both ends) because if you use a screwdriver you can wreck the spline or punch a hole in the screen.
Apologies if I'm telling you something you already know. Is it mansplaining if you're talking to another man? Or just splaining?
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It’s splainin when you’re Lucy splainin to Ricky (as opposed to Lucy and Charlie Brown or Lucy in the skies). And if women can mansplain to me like my mom’s annoying dentist, you can call it what you like to cf. kingsplainin works.
Our bungalow has its quirks like any century plus old building. The door handles are metal and the door plates have ancient keyholes. I dabbled with trying to get those to work because it’s a simple mechanism - I just need a key that’s the right size. They’ve been painted over many times. If we weren’t renting, I’d out some work into restoring some of it in my copious free time.
ED worked as a tour guide at Winchester and I always envied him that job.
But back to your doors, no way you can hang one in the rain. The wet warps the frames. I can hardly close my mom’s fence when it rains.
Sounds like you need the universal solution - tarps and duct tape.
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My gate swelled in the rain. I took a file to the rubbing spot, but it still drags a little.
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I've moved into the 21st Century. I've equipped the house with a Smart Thermostat. This means the temperature of the house can now be found on the interwebs! Hopefully the big rebate from PG&E will be coming soon.
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(12-17-2021, 12:08 PM)Greg Wrote: I've moved into the 21st Century. I've equipped the house with a Smart Thermostat. This means the temperature of the house can now be found on the interwebs! Hopefully the big rebate from PG&E will be coming soon.
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Oh, I wish. All I see are idiots refusing a life saving vaccine because they don't want to look stupid.
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All I see are talking apes ruling the planet.
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I thought it was lizard people running things behind the scenes
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