New Doors

Been a while since the last blog update. The latest news is our new front and back doors are now installed. The first step was to paint the door slabs, which took a few coats. Then on installation day, we locked the cats in a bedroom and got to work.

It was a rather challenging demo of the old doors. First the door trim was removed, then I cut the old door frame and pried it out.

It took some wrestling to get these 2x8's out. The concrete stoops were cast against them, and they were about a foot down into the floor.

The back door has some similar issues, and here I discovered we had to anchor the door frames into a masonry wall instead of a stud.


Once we have the rough openings ready, the new door and frame are set in place, leveled, shimmed into place and screwed into the walls. Now the trim goes back on and the gaps are caulked. Here's the finished front door with the old door in the foreground. We still need to paint the trim white to match.

Here the trim on the back door gets nailed into place.

There's some touch-up and caulking to be done on the outside also. Hope to get this done next weekend.