So, this weekend Teresa and I had long protracted argu .. discussions about the threshold for the front door, it's position relative to the floor inside the house, it's being lifted, replaced, not touched, and other items. Well, after ripping the damn thing out, I ended up having to cut a new piece of cement board since I didn't want to put a three inch wide strip kind of floating there at the end, it didn't seem like the right way to do it. So I took a 10 dollar Lowes coupon and purchased a $9.67 piece of cement board. I got it cut, fit, and the threshold back in place in plenty of time to hang out with a number of my courtyard neighbors who had gathered around the keg that one of the neighbors decided to pick up on a whim.
Sunday dawned early and the hangover wasn't as bad as I expected. I removed the door from the hinges and then spent a lot of time screwing around with the door. Hmm, the height of the opening from the very top to the threshold is exactly the same on the left and right. The width is exactly the same on top and bottom. The diagonals are the same. Hmm, a square doorway? No way? Hmm, why, when I line up my saw guide to take off a tiny bit at the bottom of the door, and I measure from the top of the door to the saw guide, and I set the saw guide perfectly parallel to the top of the door, why does the bottom not look parallel to the saw guide. Well, I'll just cut it anyway. OK, so I got one of these fancy shmancy saw guide things where you attached a plastic shoe to the bottom of your circ saw and then that new plastic shoe rides on a rail on the saw guide. You just line up the edge of the guide with your cut, and perfect cuts every time. Well, the new shoe is a quarter inch thick, the guide is at least a quarter inch thick, the door is about an inch and a half thick. Do you know what that adds up to? It adds up to about 1/8 of an inch more than my saw can cut through. So, I had to move the guide over and use it as a guide to run along side of instead of on top of. Of course, I didn't find out the saw didn't cut all the way through until I had made the furst cut. After cutting the door down, I hung it back on the hinges. OK, a perfectly square door, in a perfectly square whole does not necessarily mean that a perfectly square door hangs perfectly. The hinges were a bit out of true I guess, so there is a very very slight gap toward one end of the bottom of the door. A bit of weather strip along the bottom edge takes care of that. Anyway, I set Teresa up with a bucket of ThinSet and let her have at the tiles. She did a great job but I had to whip out the abrasive blade for my circ saw for some emergency cuts at the very end. Since we had ended up shifting the threshold slightly, I had to trim those last few tiles back a bit. We still have to tile the closet floor and the fireplace, and I will do the trim work this week. The livingroom is nearly done. I just have to wait to make sure we aren't going to get slapped with any more cold weather and then I can drain the heating system and rip out the radiator in the livingroom, finish the hard wood up to the wall, and then I can start on the deck. FWEW! -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (412) 268-9081 To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
