Saturday, February 16, 2013

I Just A-Door The Clam

Today we were supposed to go to Kentucky to see April's family but she wasn't feeling great last night and woke up feeling pretty bad today.  She didn't want to take the risk of getting sick while pregnant so we stayed home.  I called my friend Nick and he came over to help me hang the doors.  I cleaned and primered the heads of the bolts so I can paint them with a brush once the doors are fully in place and we are done using a wrench.  We only managed to get one door hung.

We started with the back door to make the alignment easier.  The first door went on without any more difficulty than you would expect from hanging a very heavy door.  It began to snow pretty heavy for a time but it didn't last long.

After trying a couple different methods and a lot of physical pain we finally got the front door to support its own weight on the hinges, but for some reason it was sagging too far to close without hitting the rear door.  After some maneuvering we were able to get the door to where it could be picked up and made to sit in the right location but when we would tighten the bolts and let go of the door it would sag back down.  After inspection I found that one of the door pins up front was missing its bushing.  At some point during all of this restoration it has fallen out and is completely missing which was causing only about 1/16 of an inch or less of movement at the hing, but that translated to 1/2 to 1 inch of movement at the back of the door.  We had to take the entire door back off and I am going to have to replace the door pins.  It was so cold at this point we called it a day and didn't bother with any of the other doors.