Stealing an idea from another thread….crazy const tech…I wanted to go the other route. As in…..what have you seen that was kinda off the wall…but really was a stroke of genius.
Last job site I worked…..my buddy Joe had to move a doorway….over about 6 feet…but still along and same wall……a wall that ran between the garage and new mudroom entry.
The idea was to re-use the existing door, if possible.
So….he cut back the drywall in the garage side…..cut it back to expose the framing……and cut out the whole damn thing…….king’s and trimmers…..header…..lower of the double top plate……
then…cut out the drywall and framing where the door was to go….and carried the whole door unit…trim and drywall and all……and set it in place.
Simply toenailed the framing in place…….on the entry side…all they had to do was mud and tape the cut line/new joint.
On the garage side…just patch in some drywall around the door…..and put a floor to ceiling piece where the door had been.
What was slated to take about half a day for demo and reinstall was done in less than an hour.
Pretty slick, I say. Jeff
…………..Al-ways look on……the bright……side of life………..
…….whistle…..whistle…….whistle……..
Edited 10/27/2002 1:33:58 AM ET by Jeff J. Buck
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A pretty simple idea I've used alot...but my helper that day never saw...and didn't think would work......
An exterior door replacement. About an 80 yr old home, with nice craftsman details and beautiful, original trim thru out. I wanted to avoid messing with the trim.
So......instead of the usual pop all the trim..inside and out...and pul the door out.....I just worked from the outside. Pulled the brick mould......exposed what framing I could....
then went inside and cut the casing away from the jamb with a utility knife....then used a putty knife to open the gap....then a small flat bar...then a wonder bar.....amd opened it just enough to fit the sawzaw blade in there....and cut the trim nails.
Then....back outside......sawzawed the jamb from the trimmers.......and cut across the header...all the time not disturbing the interior trim.
Since the original was installed plumb and level enough to live with......the new door was installed from the outside......pushed tight against the interior trim...and nailed off.
Done!
Install brick mould and away we go.
Both homeowner and helper were impressed. Both thought lotsa more mess would be involved with changing out an 80 year old front door.
Nothing new around the trades...but was new to 2 people that day. Jeff
..............Al-ways look on......the bright......side of life...........
.......whistle.....whistle.......whistle........
I remember this little itty bitty porch roof entry job, was a gable shape, no posts, big brackets on the wall holding this thing, the drawings showed a clean flat mdo cieling,instead of fitting the cieling around the brackets later on, I mounted the brackets, then slammed down the plywood ceiling on the brackets, and proceeded to finish construction. Before installing the mdo, I cut out a big square, in the center, router and four straight guides,...zing...zing...zing...zing...... That was for a big access hole so the sparky could do his thing, and also for the inspector fellow to look at rough work. When they were done , all that was needed to finish was to mount the cut-out piece back up, recessed a little, w/ a little 1/4 roundy round to make up the gap that the router bit made. Saved some fitting around the brackets. An added detail not called for but nobody seemed to mind.listening for the secret.......searching for the sound...
My neighbor wanted a deck around an above ground pool but there was concrete all the way around the exterior rim of the pool for the support posts so I built heavy duty 4 x 4 post trusses on skids around half the pool and then let my joists tie them together not only did this avoid the concrete problem it is also able to be moved back when the liner needs replacing.My neighbors an engineer,pilot,computer expert and he was pretty impressed.
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