Scary chore complete…

I took a week or so off after the framing party to let my stump and joints heal – the older I get, the less completely I seem to have recovered from getting torn up in ’72 – but last weekend Landlady and Ian came up together and brought a nice salvaged solid-core door. It’s not pre-hung, which meant I had to chisel and mount hinges, which is something I haven’t done since I was in my 20’s. So hanging it was a scary thing I was prone to put off doing.

Which meant I should do it immediately. Got hinges for it in town Monday.

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The two smart people on the framing party couldn’t agree how big the opening should be and I had no idea. So we just decided to make it “definitely too big” and move on.

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But the hinge thing was the part that scared me, and it turned out to be easy. So now I can move on.

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2 Responses to Scary chore complete…

  1. Ben says:

    I think I’ve (from scratch) hung one door in my lifetime. Now that I think back, it came out rather well. On the other hand, the last pre-hung door I installed was a multi-day challenge to get right.

    It’s all in knowing what you’re doing…which I don’t.

  2. MJR says:

    I’ve got to say that hanging a door is one of my least favorite things about house building. I have hung three (two from scratch and one pre-hung) and each time I have had to ask for help. What looks like such a simple matter on a YouTube video just seems to always go south.

To the stake with the heretic!