Doors Up and Walls Down

Since my last post I have installed a couple of doors, three to be precise. Two leading from the mud room to the new (modified) room, and a relocated door from the old back bedroom to the new closet. The mud room is taking shape nicely. I pulled down some more drywall, the bedroom side of the dividing wall and the drywall around the closet. Notice the foil covered Styrofoam, this is the only insulation in the entire addition that was put on prior to us owning the home. Can you imagine putting an 80+ year old woman, a family member to say the least, in this space without any insulation in the walls. The Styrofoam is only rated at an R-4, at best. We have a few more changes we want to make to this space and I'll correct this, right away.

The old closet and west outside wall, no insulation.

Relocated door, with a little modification.

New, to us, doors.

They look good from both sides.

The Door Stops Here

I know the phrase is "The Buck Stops Here" but I installed door stops and don't have any bucks. They went in very well, they are a little narrower than traditional stop strips but with everything trim white they blend in nicely.

The office.

Master bedroom.





Spare room, ReBecca's temp and very small studio.

Dressing room.

Pulling Out All The Stops

We're not really pulling out all the stops, I'm making them, the door stops that is. To ensure the stops are thick enough to conceal all the openings once the door is closed I thought it would be easier to just make them. After all I'd have to paint them anyway. So here they are with a few coats of paint and then I'll get them installed.

Enough for the four doors and a spare.

You can see the profile here.

New Hardware

It was a long day and a productive one, I got the four doors hung and the hardware on. I still have to make a couple of adjustments to two of them by way of sanding the bottoms a bit so they'll swing open. The master bedroom and dressing room doors went up without too much trouble. With a 120+ year old home not everything is plumb, and with the door frames being plumb they conflict with the floors, a little bit. Other than that, I'll install the door stops, once I make them and this should be a done deal. Until I make the one's ReBecca really wants.




Out side the spare room.

Inside the dressing room.



Inside the office.

Looking at the bedroom and dressing room doors.

Four Doors - No Waiting

Over the past couple of days I have been painting the doors. To make things a little easier and have them all done at the same time I did them standing up. It was a lot easier and it went very well. I have three coats on now and will see tomorrow if they need one more, maybe once they are installed I can touch them up then.

Just painting in circles.

A little bit of scrap wood comes in handy.

Making Room For Hardware

Today I only cut out the holes for the door handles and chiseled out the locations for the hinges. I was going to start painting them but it's cool and damp, still so it's best to wait. Here are a couple of pictures of today's efforts, not exciting but it's progress.

The location for the handles.

Hinge locations.

The Doors

I'm not talking about the group but hollow core doors. As mentioned in a previous post we picked up four 6 panel doors that were 30 x 80, so I had to trim them up, or should I say down to size. After cutting them to length the piece that came off had the bottom frame work of the door in it and I had to make new ones to fit. These were made of pine and not press wood. I had a bit of time this morning and I clued them in. Tomorrow I'll cut the openings for the door handles and hinges, then give them the first coat of paint.

Not much to see, they're upside down and clamped.