Blood stains can seriously drop your property value. *smile* Besides, you are the same guys who used to say something about wanting to be the man who walked 500 miles and then walked 500 more, just to be the man who walked a 1000 miles for you and dropped down at your door. What is a little blood compared to that kind of devotion. *smile*
Jennifer ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Cc: Blind Handyman List Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 1:56 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] New storm door. What is it about women, wives in particular. I mean, here you are, trying to do your level best, and while doing that, you do injury to yourself which causes your life's blood to drip or flow out of your wound. Instead of offerring kindness, sympathy, and aid, the wife is primarily concerned with something so superficial as a little bloodstain. And, speaking of new, we're having a new furnace and airconditioning unit installed today. It's been a very painful process financially, and once again, I've learned how arbitrary and capricious government and government regulated utilities can be in terms of defining what does and does not qualify for a tax or other credit. Bill Stephan Kansas Citty MO Email: [email protected] Phone: (816)803-2469 ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Rossi <[email protected]> Date: Friday, October 9, 2009 1:48 pm Subject: [BlindHandyMan] New storm door. > Maybe you call it a screen door, or storm door, whatever, but I > have a new > one. Almost. > > Our house used to have one of those crappy sheet Aluminum storm > doors > with zero insulation value, noisy when you open and close it, and > a stupid > heavy glass window that you had to take out each summer, store it > somewhere, and put it back in the winter. > > Well, I decided to upgrade. I got one of the doors where you just > pull > the upper window down and it pulls a rolled up screen down in it's > place. > It's got double panes, insulated frame, rubber magnetic seals and > dual > closers. > > Of course, I got the wrong size door, so what I hoped to be a > quick and > simple project turned out to take a little longer. I tried so > hard to > understand exactly what with of door I had, and what I needed to > ask for. > i still got it wrong. My door is wider and taller than the > standards so > had to get a custom door. I measured from brick mould to brick > mould, but > my mistake was that my old door sat inside the brick mould > attached to a > secondary frame. The new door, well the flange instead of sitting > inside > the brick mould, wrapped around the front of the brick mould. > > At first I didn't think that was an issue, but since the moulding > was > beveled, the screws were going through the edge and not holding. > So, I > ripped the old brick mould off, and installed a square frame > rather than > the decorative beveled moulding. Getting the old stuff off was a > lot of > work. I don't know what kind of nails they used 80 years ago, but > I swear > they must have been barbed. I also don't know what they used for > calking, > it was hard as rock, and was not in any hurry to leave the bricks. > > The big adventures here were that I drew blood a couple of times. > You had > to drill pilot holes in the edge of the door for the hinges. The > edge is > metal clad. I had the door laying flat on a couple of saw horses > and was > drilling into the edge. My hand was above the drill on the door, > helping > to keep it straight. The 1/8 inch bit snapped, the drill rammed > forward > and up, and the broken spinning bit ran across the underside of my > fingers. No major damage, and I kept working, but Teresa > eventually came > out and was a bit annoyed at all the blood on the new door. > > I also nicked myself with a regular old hand saw. I was being > stupid and > trying to hurry, I just wanted to rough cut the end off one of the > framing > members. I was holding the stick of wood in one hand and the saw > in the > other. I got mostly through the wood when it snapped off. It > left just a > little spike of wood sticking out the corner and I tried to just > rip it > off with one stroke, but the saw snagged, the stick rolled, and I > caught > the edge of my finger on the saw. Again, no major damage but more > blood > to be cleaned up. > > The door is in, is pretty straight, opens and closes, but I still > need to > put the closers on. > > One more task down, 77 to go. > > -- > Blue skies. > Dan Rossi > Carnegie Mellon University. > E-Mail: [email protected] > Tel: (412) 268-9081 > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
