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We finally have the french doors permanently in place. The tweaking took several days for several reasons. One being the house is old and the opening was slightly askewed and the other is that we are not the best nor fastest door installers.
There is one thing we noticed right away that we love. It's the fact that you can open both doors and it makes carrying in and out larger items so much easier. This opening is smaller than the standard opening for exterior patio doors. Standard openings are 72" X 80" for your typical sliding or french door exterior opening. Our opening is 60" X 80" which is an entire foot narrower.
The old doors were sliders which meant that the open side was actually less than 30 inches and more like 28 inches. That is OK for walking through but we are using this as our workroom which means we are hauling items in and out all the time. Now with the flick of a finger we can unlock the fixed side and have nearly the full 60 inches.
After screwing the door in place we could move on to the exterior trim. We decided to trim out these doors to match the front entry door. The front door exterior trim is a 2X6 trimmed down to 5 inches. So the first thing we did was to take 1/4 of an inch off one side to get a nice crisp edge. After that, we measured off 5 inches and cut. We prepared all 3 trim boards at the same time so we didn't have to keep adjusting the table saw.
Now that the boards were all the same width we measured and cut the side pieces first. We attached them with 2 finish nails at the top and bottom. Then we moved on to the other side and did the same. I held the top piece in place while R marked it with a pencil. The top board was nailed in place with two finishing nails at each end.
Now that the pieces were all in place we went back and added 2 more finishing nails every foot on both sides of the boards. In some places we needed to shim out the trim so that it would be level with the trim board that was next to it. This house is sheathed with various 1 inch thick lumber and over the nearly 100 years some of it has bowed, cupped, and shrank so we use wood shims to make the trim boards lay nice and flat next to each other.
We finished up by countersinking all the nails. The proper depth is to sink the nail head into the wood to the depth of the width of the nail head. In the spring we will putty those holes but for now it is far too cold.
Tomorrow we will install the door handles that I purchased from House of Antique Hardware.
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