Home Repairs

[helen99]

Today I had the chimney cap fixed so raccoons don't crawl in and get trapped next summer like they did last year. While I had the contractors out, I got the external facing board behind the concrete front stoop (as well as the concrete front stoop) replaced. The board was rotten and had a hole in it through which mice could get into the insulation, and the concrete was crumbling in parts, so it was about time to get it done.

We did not, however, replace the door assembly yet, although that needs to be done too, and plans are underway. Aside from the fact that parts of the door frame are falling apart, the threshold is cracked and there's a hole in it where mice chewed it. The cracked threshold has been reinforced with wood and I will fill in the crack and hole with putty and then sand and paint it, but it really needs to be replaced.

The irony doesn't escape me that the threshold of the organizer of Walking the Thresholds and co-organizer of Crossing the Thresholds is cracked. Just to be on the safe side, we will have a new threshold by Thresholds.

(Heh)

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[rialian.livejournal.com]

===Well, many have crossed our threshold, both for good and ill....perhaps it is time to change the threshold, or perhaps raise it a bit....(chuckles)

[helen99.livejournal.com]

>, or perhaps raise it a bit....

Eek. I'd best hop to and study right, in that case.

Is the Aleutian-side door rotten on the bottom? I don't remember the visual from here, but I seem to remember it was kind of rotten. If not, we can repaint it. That would be a way to do this more cheaply since what would have been the Midway entrance if the house had not been built backwards the other door and frame have to be done first.

Here's an interesting DYI Thresholds link.

It sounds like we've already taken care of the stuff he warns about, so if we could learn how to do this, we could do it ourselves. That could be a stopgap measure until we actually decide to replace the frame. The fact that Phil was reluctant to do it, however, tells me that it's not as "easy" as the person says it is. Maybe for some Wood Wizard it's "easy" but not for us.

So... wood filler, sandpaper, and paint being the total of our current carpentry skill levels, that will have to do until we can get the whole thing replaced, I'm guessing. Still, the link was interesting.

[rialian.livejournal.com]

===I am thinking that my supports idea may be our best bet...a few well-placed pieces of wood under the edge of the threshold to take the weight of the stepping on should do the trick until we replace the frame and door itself.

[helen99.livejournal.com]

Weather permitting, I'd like to gather Stuff We Need For Projects this weekend... That should be fun, actually - I like going to the hardware store and ferreting.

we will have a new threshold by Thresholds

[rebelfilms.livejournal.com]

LOL! :D

Re: we will have a new threshold by Thresholds

[helen99.livejournal.com]

Actually, come to think of it, we are likely to have two new Thresholds by Thresholds. 2(Thresholds²)?