markc1957

More 'entertainment' with changes to the house in Yuba City. Wife wants a secure screen door at the front of the house, and that has been an exercise in frustration. I had expected to be able to secure it to framing around the front door, but it seems that the front door frame and glass to the left of the door were a prefabricated unit with some peculiar/irritating framing on the side with the glass. Where I expected to find solid wood to run the one-way lag screws through the metal frame to secure the door, I'm finding a boatload of air. Trim board covers a 3 inch wide gap with 2x3 cross pieces at odd intervals all the way down the height of the door. I have to put some real wood blocks in there with good, flat sides so I can glue them into place. Time to struggle with getting the ShopSmith loaded in my pickup truck and hauling it up there so that I've got all the tools I need to get this stuff done in a timely manner. Trying to do it with a circular saw, the sonicrafter, and a jigsaw just isn't doing the job. I need the jointer on the ShopSmith to make the framing 2x4 stock from the lumberyard flat on the wide side. Every piece is straight enough, but has just enough cup to make for a very bad glue joint. Other fun is that the brickmold around the door is a profile that is apparently no longer manufactured. I may have a router bit in a set that is close enough to that profile to make all new brickmold for this one project in amongst my tool goodies, but I need to dig those out from wherever in the garage I put them last. So much fun. I hope to be able to finish that project up and be done with it, and get back to simpler things inside the house, like light fixtures and drywall repair. Until next time, stay safe, everyone.