Columbus

July 26th – 27th


When I got back from Denver, my mom was at my house. She and Dave started the preps for the projects ahead this week.

I am getting all new exterior doors.

They got them picked up on Monday. Which was a saga in itself; doors not ready on time, had to rent a truck from Home Depot to pick them up from Lowe's...  etc

Mom and I started sanding & painting them on Tuesday.

Dad will be up this weekend to rip out the old ones and replace.

Original back door

Original front door

And for some reason, I didn’t take before photos of the garage door??

It was in the worst condition and what started this project!

Of course, nothing ever goes as planned. Last week the sales person at Lowe’s had called to inform me that one of the doors was not going to arrive on time. Due to my limited timeline (aka: the 4 days dad would be in town), she was able to call in a few favors and get the door back on track.

Go back a few weeks.. when I had to order the doors… holy crap! So MANY decisions when it comes to ordering doors! Left outswing, left inswing.. right outswing, right inswing… peep hole height… threshold stuff… etc. When you have an outswing, you can’t have a storm door (aka: screen door)

However, by putting an outswing on the back door, I would gain a couple inches of space in my (very) small kitchen. My head was spinning!

Small factoid… in the state of Ohio, if you replace a door that is going to the garage, it has to have a specific fire rating. Which is Latin for expensive! Basically, if my house catches fire, it will burn to the ground. However, the door going from the dining room to the garage will still be standing!

And as luck would have it, my new fire rated door, arrived damaged!

I took a ton of photos and took them to Lowe’s. Due to my limited timeline, I got a nice discount because my dad had to fix the damage. There wasn’t time for the factory to re-make them.

If you plan on painting your own doors – DON’T GET WINDOWS! They are a pain in the butt to tape off! Especially curved ones!

One more mind boggling decision process… choosing hardware! Oh… I lamented over this for days. My selection was narrowed because my dad would only ‘approve’ one brand. Which both Lowe’s & Home Depot sell – but they both sell similar, yet different models. AGHHHH!!!