July 8, 2006

• In two days I replaced one bathroom door.  Just one bathroom door.  Breaking down the time spent:

  

  Old door removal: 30 minutes
  Chiseling out two hinge slots on the new door: 1 hour
  Two coats of paint on the new door: 2 hours (does not
  include drying time)
  Realizing grooves for hinges aren’t deep enough and making
  them the right depth: 1 hour 30 minutes
  Hanging new door: 1 hour BUT
  Realizing the door is 1-2mm too wide to properly shut: 1
  minute
  Sanding the door down 1-2 mm so door will proper shut: 3
  hours
  Repainting the door where it was just sanded: 1 hour (not
  including drying time)
  Attaching doorknob: 5 minutes BUT
  Because of sanding latch groove is too shallow – need to
  chisel it out more: 1 hour
  Attaching doorknob again: 5 minutes

  Door is now attached and closes … without the framing strike
  (the metal plate on the door jab).  The
  previous owner had moved the strike a few times and stripped the screw.  I have to go get a screw removal kit to try
  and get it out so I can reposition the strike. 
  The other thing I can try to do is to remove that piece of the jab and
  replace it.  Which sounds easy but
  probably would take me longer than expected.

  Only 6 more doors to replace!!!  (No comments about the crooked picture either )

  • 9:21 am
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