doors

I stopped counting days... things were moving along at a fast pace, however the past week things have slowed down a bit... more on that later... in the meantime... DOORS.

Part of the living room gut-rehab scope is the vestibule... which includes the vestibule door and the exterior front door. The guy who did our stairs also does doors (he's a woodworker), so he's agreed to fix up/partially restore both the front door and the vestibule door...

The existing front door needed lots of work... chips, cracked wood, missing pieces... mulitple locks... security glass, of which one panel was cracked... layer upon layer of paint, blistering and cracking...
Bo's dad, Jarek, started the process of stripping the doors... front door being the biggest challenge...

Vestibule door only needs a bit of touching up, following the paint stripping...

... the doors are incredibly heavy, so we are stripping the existing hinges and reusing them, since they were specially made for those doors.

While on the subject of doors... we decided to go ahead and tackle the basement door and lintel now vs later... things were already covered in plastic... plus we may get ambitious and decide to build a deck/balcony in September... however, the primary reason we decided to this now vs later is the fact that the existing basement door had NO lintel above it, despite the fact that there was significant weight resting on it... and we have started to see a few hairline cracks in the grout above the door... plus we needed a new basement door (the existing door wouldn't stay closed and could not be locked from the outside).

We picked up a Jeldwen door at Home Depot... not a huge selection, plus our budget was very tight... but we managed to find something... we decided to get a door with windows, to allow some natural light into the basement... best. decision. ever.

... lintel still to be installed... and door still to be painted.