New Shed Doors!

Well, you might imagine that since I didn't post about the mantle in June, that we didn't do the mantle yet. Well I'm proud to say that you'd be wrong......no wait, you're right. We didn't do the mantle. We decided that there were a few other things that were more important maintenance type things to get done on the house before we build the mantle. The doors on our shed were just about as close to falling off the shed as doors could be. The hinges on the old doors were attached to completely rotted wood such that every time I opened the shed, I braced myself for the impact of the doors falling off.

So we decided it was time. I didn't want to use the shed in fear anymore! While we got most everything done on Saturday, I started the entire project on Thursday evening with building some saw horses. There was no way whatsoever I could have done this job without saw horses, so I hammered a couple of those out Thursday and then on Friday evening I cut the doors out of the plywood. I have a battery powered circular saw with two batteries so I thought surely I'd be able to get these cut out. Sure enough...I didn't. It was a combination of low battery capacity and my stupidity. I didn't charge the battery I'd been using in my drill so that was only half way charged up and the other battery hadn't been charged for months, but I figured that since I hadn't used it, it should still be fully charged. I got through 2 cuts and both batteries were dead! D'OH! Thankfully, we live close enough to some good friends who lent us their corded circular saw so I could finish cutting out the doors. (THANK YOU JOHN!)

On Saturday, I started (relatively) bright and early on getting the old doors removed and building the trim for around the door opening. Since we had AT&T coming out to install new internet service, I had to take a break from the doors for a little while to attend to that, but I promptly got back to working on the doors after cutting down our hibiscus tree so the tech could reach our network interface box. So I got cracking on making the frames for the doors and getting them glued 'n screwed to the plywood door panels. I had all that done a little after lunch time at which point Cass helped with painting the doors. The rest of the day was basically painting, waiting, painting again, waiting again, and repeat as necessary. It made for a nice long day of just working outside! Thankfully, we couldn't have asked for better weather. It was in the high 70s and only partly cloudy!

We got everything painted and ready to hang, called it a day, and went to O'Charleys for Dinner! Mmmmmm O'Charleeeys. So, the shed remained doorless for a night, but we're able to lock our privacy fenced in yard, so I wasn't too worried about that. Sunday after church we finished the job by hanging the doors and putting on the rest of the hardware. The doors swing open nice. We're quite happy with the results. Now I don't have to worry about being conked in the head whenever I open the shed.