Yesterday was a good day. Nice warning sunshine and cooling breeze, perfect door modifying weather,
I took the old doors out and took them apart. The inside step has got to go. On the plus side, it will give me a storage box that goes right across the back.
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Putting a step inside seemed like a good idea in the design stage but in use, it was the wrong height step, too short a tread and hampered attempts to fit steps.
A 2x1 piece of box was ideal but it will need a ✖ member as the wood bows when it has weight on it.
The two existing doors had to be reduced in both length and height. Being already odd (not the same size) various amount had to be cut off to achieve the fit I wanted, even tapering one door width to take account of frame build errors.
While I had the door frame in pieces I am considering fitting a small slide opening window in the top stable door. I have found the window but I am unsure where the inner frame is. Also, the Aluminium Warehouse, where I buy my materials from is closed so unless I can find enough laying about, it will not happen.
There was quite a bit of fitting-remove-cut before I got two almost equal doors where I wanted them.
The best door hinges I found, after trawling lots of t'internet sites. funnily enough, was from Wick just down the road. They are stainless steel, ball race fire door hinges and at less than £5.00 a pair. I thought a bargain.
They came with wood screw which are no good for me and I wanted something quite sturdy to hold the doors on. I purchase some countersunk 6 mm machine screws with matching nuts and washers. They seemed like a good idea but in theory but in practice, the hinge countersinks were not big enough to take the screw heads. Fixing the hinges in a similar way to a piano hinge, the screw heads met before the door was fully closed. I was going to go down to 5mm screws but was confined to barracks before I could make the purchase so I will work with what I have.
Luckily I have an engineering grade carbide countersink that I am able to open the hinges out.
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With the wind getting up today with a bit of a nip in the air and it looks like cooler weather for a day or two I cut the Dibond sheets down to size stuck a few screws in and called it a day.
On writing this post and looking at the photo's I realised I need to stick a piece over the hole left at the bottom before it rains.
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm" .......(Winston Churchill)
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