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Jack was Back

Christine

Jack delivered something today. Do you know what it was? A couple of somethings, really. And I’ve been waiting since February. Can you remember back that far?

That’s right! Doors!
The storm door/screen door frame, along with the screen inset and the storm inset, and the actual new old front door.

I called Bill as soon as Jack left this morning, and asked him when he might be able to get them hung. He said he’d try to squeeze it in this week, but he wasn’t sure. Next week he’s on vacation. But I think Bill knows how excited I am to see this finished, so I think he’ll get here as soon as he can.

Jack is not happy with the way the rest of the frame around the front door is weathering, so he said he will come back after Bill has hung the new doors. This way Jack can finish anything Bill needs to trim, and give the whole thing a new coat of finish. Something more durable. I honestly think this is really terriffic of Jack, I mean I know we are paying him for this project, and I think his price is quite reasonable, but I’m impressed he’s willing to fix a problem that was made by someone else.

The door trim seems to be getting lighter and the wood is looking awfully dry. I’m not sure why, because it is under the porch, mostly protected from the elements. It gets the sun only early in the morning, and is in shadow by 10 AM. I suspect it didn’t recieve the proper finish coat for an exterior. I mean, it has only been like three years. Seriously.

But don’t worry, Jack is going to fix it.

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Sawhorses, Oliver and the Figure Eight

Christine

I got the final coat of color stain on this basement screen door yesterday. I’m ready to be done with this project, but we have to put a finish coat of some sort on it yet. Guess I’d better see what we have on the paint shelf in the basement.
Oliver wasn’t paying much attention to me and my project, so I got started. Don’t you know, as soon as I had stain slathered over half the door, here comes Oli, sniffing, wagging, shedding, and weaving his rope between the legs of the sawhorses. There was a tense couple of minutes where I had to tell him to sit and stay, because he had made a figure eight around the legs. He really couldn’t go anywhere, and he refuses to unwrap himself by going back the way he came. After I finished the final wipe down and got my gloves off, I was able to lift the sawhorses and free his rope. Then I asked him to please sit on the glider while the door dried, so we don’t get golden retriever hair in the wet stain (we did anyway) or get get white stain in his hair (he did anyway).

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Basement Screen Door

Christine

We hauled the sawhorses out to the front porch again last week.
Mom and I got busy staining the new screen door for the basement. This one is pretty basic. Bill built it because the basement’s back door is pretty low, under six feet I believe.

The door frame is painted, but we chose to do a white stain on the door, for two reasons. One, I already had the can of stain, and two, because I don’t want to have to repaint it every couple of years.

So we started out by giving it a wipe down with tackcloth, since it has been sitting around for about a month. We got two coats on each side before it was time to call it a day. I think it needs one more, then we can put some kind of clear coat on the door, call Bill and tell him it is ready. Bill is going to put the screens in and he also bought a metal mesh grill for the bottom section, because he knows what doggie noses can do to a screen.

As an added bonus, the modern screen door tension bar thingy and the modern hinges that came with the new front door’s screen door/storm door will be just fine for the basement.