This #$%&%#$% Old House
You may have heard me say this before. You can't teach an old house new tricks. It just doesn't work. This house absolutely won't bend so if you try to add something new to it..that something has to be altered. This is not for the faint of heart.
We got a new screen front door. We haven't had one before but have been threating to for years. We measured the door and head off to the store and found a beautiful cherry (stained) door, a steal at only $80. 32"X80", that's what our door measured..sold. The only thing is, only part of our door opening is 32" X 80". The rest is 31 1/4" X 80" and 31 1/2" X 79 3/4" or how about 31 1/8" X 79 1/2".
Now you've got to have one person push the door against the opening and someone on the other side with a pencil, marking the hell out of it. Then you've got to cut and cut and then sand and sand some more...your new $80 door now resembles a child's building experiment. One wrong move and you might as well throw it in the garbage. No stress there! Then you check it again. Finally, after a few hours of this, if you did it right, you get to yell "Hey...Stop slamming the door!"
"HEY...STOP SLAMMING THE DOOR!"
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hmmm. maybe i won't replace the bedroom door b has slammed nearly to oblivion. i know there's many identical models at the salvage store (given the vintage and style of homes built in this area and era), and that i'd have to measure not only length and width but exact placement of the door knob guts (matching of course) and hinge indentations in relation to the height of both door and frame...
i didn't account for warpage.................
or the fact that there's only one of me and no circular saw in sight....
ugh.
Well, on the bright side, at least all of your dimensions were slightly smaller than the door instead of slightly larger.
It's a beautiful door - you did a nice job installing it.
And I'm going to keep slamming it - because I love the sound of a slamming screen door!