Taking Czechsix’s good advice, I was able to get those facings up this morning. Took an hour and a half, but most of that was futzing with the ladder and the front stairs and getting hit in the eye with lumber and such. The actual installation didn’t take long at all. It’s just up high, and I’m a wuss.
I wish like hell, though, that I had checked the height of that door before I got help hauling it all the way up there. I knew it was too high, but only now looked at just how much too high. It’s a lot, and now I want to cut it to size before rather than after I cut away the OSB – just to see if I’ll really still have a functioning door after having done so.
Which means I have to bring it back down. Which – sigh – needs to happen before I put up the railing…
Oh me… Seems like so much in life is that way. I so often find that I have to move something to get at something else I need, and no matter how hard I think about it first, sometimes I just wind up doing things in the wrong order and have to go back to do it all again. It does get awful old.
I am learning, however… I ordered a new shower head, expecting it to arrive on Thursday. Saturday now, and I still have hopes it will come by this afternoon, but I’m very glad I didn’t take the old one down yet… as I almost did Thursday morning!! I remember what a PITA it was to put that old one on years ago (and always hated it), so that helped restrain me. I’ve been moving bags of gravel and pulling weeds all morning, and will have to take a shower soon whether or not the new thing comes.
The measure twice cut once adage always eludes me. Meaning so much extra work doh! My wife tells me I need to plan my forward planning!