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   Guest_ | Mar 03, 1999 09:05am | #1

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   Jack you cut anything down to size. Personally I contact a commerical door outfit and have them do it. Check the yellow pages for something close to you

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   Guest_ | Mar 03, 1999 09:09am | #2

   *Bill,Thanks for the swipe, I didn't need it...but as to comercial door shop..not near this neck of the woods..it's down in my own shop if I don't want to mailorder it I guess.Anybody building there own doors?Jack : )

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   Guest_ | Mar 03, 1999 09:15am | #3

   *Just out of curiosity, what function does a 2' wide, 3' tall door serve?Rich Beckman

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   Guest_ | Mar 03, 1999 09:15am | #4

   *Jack no harm on the swipe. Give me somefeed back on location of door. How fancey does this have to be? Can a old style ply sandwitch work here?b All in fun after a hard days work

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   Guest_ | Mar 03, 1999 09:25am | #5

   *The door like many before is limited by header height...One side of the door is on the warm side of the home (inside) and the other is exposed to cold unheated space.This door happens to be a shortcut I'm installing to my cellar from my garage. I will be avoiding a maze of doors and turns to offload materials that I inventory in my cellar to and from my truck.The header's going in this week as I have run the maze for the last time. By the way, I didn't build my home, it was less expensive to buy this "fixer upper" from a bank, than to buy just land. Have a few bugs to iron out but well worth it so far for the location alone.Contractor turned DIYer,Jack : )

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   Guest_ | Mar 03, 1999 09:39am | #6

   *JackI've built several for similar locations. . . 2x2 (full size, ripped from larger stock)pine frame, 2"XPS cut to fit in between frame pieces, 1/8 - 1/4 panelling or ply skin glued and nailed. Frame needs beefing up with an extra block for passage set!!-Patrick

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   Guest_ | Mar 03, 1999 09:46am | #7

   *Patrick,That works, I've done it differently in the past and may need to try your method on this one. Thanks for the post,Time to climb down off the beanstalk,JacK : ) )(

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   Guest_ | Mar 03, 1999 10:08am | #8

   *Jack, cutting the a standard steel door down to 2030 is a dog that just won't hunt. The average insulated steel door is made up of "dried phlegm"as one of my minions is wont to say. Cut it, and all the engineered hard points go away. Make up a door, as stated by Patrick, and maybe add a layer of 8 oz. 'glass cloth and resin for waterproofing the exterior.

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   Guest_ | Mar 03, 1999 11:17am | #9

   *"a dog that just won't hunt" -- a regionalism? Another I heard here was "I'm at sixes on that" -- a short form for "six of one, half-dozen of the other"?Just trying to grow past my Yankee-speak. I think I'll use Patrick's suggestion for an attic hatch I need to build.... If you need security out in them woods, AJ, you could screw a piece of sheet metal under the outside ply, or do a sheet metal sandwich... Thanks.

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   Guest_ | Mar 03, 1999 05:50pm | #10

   *Hi JackSome bad specs above if you intend to use a standard passage/lockset. Start with a 1 1/2" pine frame, with 1 1/2" XPS inserted within, and 2 skins of 1/8" mahog. panelling or masonite etc for a finished thickness of 1 3/4". Don't know what I was thinking (actually I do but no need to go there!)Are you up yet??-Patrick

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   Guest_ | Mar 03, 1999 07:37pm | #11

   *Just imagine us all on the same crew...."brlliant ideas every day by dusk"...That's what the bus. card would read...We'd build the best most thought out homes on the block....How many years and beers to build the "model?"...Hey...it's the road you travel...not the destination...not yet anyways.Thanks for ideas...multiple heads are worth more than one,Jack : )

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   Guest_ | Mar 04, 1999 12:19pm | #12

   *Andrew, actually a purloined regionalism. I snatched it from the big-eared Texan... Ross Perot. I also felt it would be more, how do you say... descriptive, yet so endearing as to not be edited out. As to outgrowing your Yankee... nosuh, might not be such ah fine idea... wouldn't be able to ask directions when in your cah, ayuh. Nebmind speak right.

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   Guest_ | Mar 05, 1999 07:11pm | #13

   *Jack Build a small frame from 2x2 fill with SM and cover with galvinized (spelling) valley flashing now you can use magnetic weather strip for a good seal. I used this method to replace a window that I use to get materials in and out of my basement.Hope this helps