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Ovi- ja ikkunaentisöinti (update #2)
5 Nov 2023 03:00 pmOur house has a traditional wooden paneled door as the outer door and the policewoman who owned the house before us had to (all police do) have a security lock installed that was too thick for the door, and the people who put it in kinda destroyed the door by cutting out such a big hole and not fully painting around the exposed wood. The outer edge of the door was too wide, bent apart around the lock, and the water infiltration started about ten years ago, and the door now swells so much it won't close after a day of rain or so.
The little old lady who owned the house until selling to the cop was talking to us in the driveway last summer and got a look at the inside of the door, where the paint is flaking off everywhere, looking like the set of a horror movie, and said "What happened to the door?!" They repainted right before selling, less than fifteen years ago, and yet it looks like it was last painted about forty years ago now.
So this door is basically unusable. Luckily we don't really need to lock our door living here, but the fact that we can't is still a little annoying. So we've finally taken steps.
The first step is to get a lock on the insulated and reinforced modern metal door that closes the uninsulated porch off from the house, which should be simple enough. Then we can have that door carted away, buy a suitably-sized antique door from the nearest architectural salvage store (they have about six viable candidates on their website), and have the lumber yard's carpenters shave it to size, install the traditional exterior panel of finger paneling, and hang it. We have to call them and ask if all that is something they can do - if not, there's a door and window restorer in a nearby county and we'll have her do it and then find a local contractor to hang it. Once the inner door locks, it's not really urgent to get the new one on. We'll have to temporarily waterproof the screen door with a tarp, which won't look any worse than it does with the door open right now, that's how bad it is.
The little old lady who owned the house until selling to the cop was talking to us in the driveway last summer and got a look at the inside of the door, where the paint is flaking off everywhere, looking like the set of a horror movie, and said "What happened to the door?!" They repainted right before selling, less than fifteen years ago, and yet it looks like it was last painted about forty years ago now.
So this door is basically unusable. Luckily we don't really need to lock our door living here, but the fact that we can't is still a little annoying. So we've finally taken steps.
The first step is to get a lock on the insulated and reinforced modern metal door that closes the uninsulated porch off from the house, which should be simple enough. Then we can have that door carted away, buy a suitably-sized antique door from the nearest architectural salvage store (they have about six viable candidates on their website), and have the lumber yard's carpenters shave it to size, install the traditional exterior panel of finger paneling, and hang it. We have to call them and ask if all that is something they can do - if not, there's a door and window restorer in a nearby county and we'll have her do it and then find a local contractor to hang it. Once the inner door locks, it's not really urgent to get the new one on. We'll have to temporarily waterproof the screen door with a tarp, which won't look any worse than it does with the door open right now, that's how bad it is.
