that door "non equation" sounds familiar. but otherwise agree with this guy. On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, carl wrote:
> you don't like anything easy doe you lol grin > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dan Rossi > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 10:20 PM > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] More floor bore > > > 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 > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > 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/
