8/26/07 Making a push to get as much of the hallway done before
I leave for India. Had to start by truing the door jam surfaces. They
were uneven after layers and years of paint. This process started with
a razor blade to remove the large
irregularities.
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Once I finished with
the razor
blade, it was time for the sander. The goal for the day was
five doors in the hallway. It took about five hours of prep time with
the razor blade and sander. Some of the paint I ran into was a problem.
It would not sand away. It would just ball up in the
paper or on the wood. That was
annoying.
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The goal was to get
the inner casings up on five of the doorways in our hall.
Unfortunately it got late and I got tired. I only got four done
tonight.
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A before shot of our two other bedroom doorways sans
trim.
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Inner casings installed.
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Outer casings and
base in between. It's really weird to see it up in the hallway. It
gives the walls so much texture. Almost makes the hallway feel
smaller.
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Here's a quick little detail about our outer
casings. The pieces we're using on the outside were not meant to be
supplemented with any other casing material - at least not on their
insides. The raw pieces of wood come in 7ft lengths, because most
doors aren't over seven feet tall. By us using another piece as the
inner casing (not typical for todays casing styles), it pushes the
length of the out casing beyond it's limit. Luckily for us, it's
only an inch or two, so I can add this splice at the bottom and it's
hardly noticed.
As you can see the pieces are cut at opposite
slants.All I have to do is get the height right on the bottom piece,
and...
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It fits like magic.
A little puddy over the irregularities, some paint, and you'll never
know it's there.
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8/29/07 In addition to trim, we're also
replacing our doors with solid pine wood doors. I have very few
pictures of the first door we put up, so I'm making a point to get
lots of pictures for this one. When we first started this whole
thing, it would have been smarter to buy the door/jam combos for our
three bedrooms, but we didn't figure that out till it was too late.
This will be the only door/jam combo we install. The other two will
be just the doors with hand carved hinge slots.
The first
step was bracing the jam for removing the door. It will be easier to
prime and move around without the door in the jam. To brace it, I
tacked on this temporary piece at the bottom. I unscrewed the hinges
and the jam was off to get primed. The door will get primed too, but
seperately.
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When we first bought the
house, it didn't take us very long to
decide to rip the original trim out. Unfortunately I didn't realize we
weren't going to rip out the trim in the bathrooms and had
gotten this piece off and destroyed before Jen stopped me. It's been
this ugly mess for nearly two years. It was time to
fix it. The trim on the left is what's in the bathroom and at this point
trimming out the closet. To the right is the tub. See the two layers
of
lenolium?
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