Monday, March 05, 2007

There are no "quick" jobs

Last week Aaron spent almost all of our time at the house cleaning and painting the interior doors so that we could rehang them with new hardware and protect our "nearly done" rooms from any mess we would create in the hall/dining/kitchen area we were about to tackle. Sunday we went over to the house, figuring we'd just take a quick hour tops to screw on the new hardware and put up the 3 freshly painted doors.

HA!

3+ hours later we have determined that we have some definitely warped doors and some messed up frames. So now we are stuck with the prospect of another expense - either buying new interior doors, or buying interior doors & frames. The doors seemed fine when they were hung up, but we didn't look all that closely either, so we aren't sure if the warping is from the water damage or from us leaving them out in a garage for 2 months. Either way, the doors don't like the frames anymore, so something has to be done.

One little bit of work that was done was measuring the walls for the trim. I think we did it all properly, remembering to leave out the last 2 1/4 inches for the door trim we'll be putting up and measuring all the spots minus things like the heat registers, etc. Now the task of figuring out how many pieces of what length we'll need and then buying it and laying it all very nicely in our warm dry livingroom so we don't have to deal with warping again!

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