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For those frequent visitors to our site, you have read every now and again about our adventures in replacing the front door to our house.对于那些常客我们的网站，您已经阅读每一个现在和再次对我们的冒险在更换前门我们的房子。 We actually thought that it would be finished by now.事实上，我们认为这将结束。

After more than 5 months, it is not.经过以上5个月，事实并非如此。 Now, something else has occurred.现在，其他已发生。

So, rather than waiting and waiting, we are going to start our new series of articles about our new exterior replacement door.因此，而非等待和等待，我们要开始我们的新的系列文章对我们的新的外部更换的大门。

And, as you have seen from our previous articles, if ‘it’ can happen to anyone likely ‘it’ will happen to us.而且，正如您所看到的，从我们以前的文章，如果'它'可以发生在任何人都可能是'它'会发生给我们。 We are sure that your adventures with your replacement exterior front door will be, well, less adventurous than ours.我们相信，您的冒险与您更换外部前门会，那么，少冒险比我们。

Let’s start at the beginning, shall we?让我们先在开始时，我们应？

In early September, the fall season had started to bring in cooler days and evenings.在九月初，秋天已开始把在天凉和晚上。 On windy days we could feel the cool air entering the house from the front door, even when it was locked.对大风天，我们可以感觉到凉爽的空气进入众议院，由前门，即使当它被锁上。 Yes, it was not overly energy efficient.是的，这是并不过分的能源效率。

As well, the door itself had no windows with the side lights on either side providing only minimal light into the main hall.以及，大门本身已没有窗户，同方灯，两旁只提供最低限度的光进入大厅。 Lastly, the windows in those side lights were clear, so anyone could look directly into our main hall, through our kitchen and eating area and out to the back of the house.最后，在Windows在这些方面的灯是明确的，所以任何人都可看直接到我们的主要大厅，通过我们的厨房和饮食区，向后面的内务。 It was time for us to consider replacing the front door.这是时间让我们考虑更换前门。

Here’s the door as it was when we purchased the house.这里的大门，因为它是当我们购买的房子。 The black sides were painted by us as our plan was to originally just paint the door and sides black.黑色双方所描绘的，我们作为我们的计划是在原来只是油漆的大门和两岸黑色。 We only got so far as the sides when we realized that we needed to replace the 20 year old door.我们只得到目前为止，由于双方时，我们认识到我们所需要的，以取代20岁的大门。

Then on the weekend, there was a flyer in the local newspaper stating that one of the local big box building supply stores was having a 20% sale on external doors.然后上周末，有一个传单，在当地一家报纸指出，一个地方的大方块建设供应商店是有20 ％的销售对外部的大门。 And, if that was not enough motivation for us, we would also not have to pay for 12 months, no interest.和，如果没有足够的动力，对于我们来说，我们也不会要支付12个月内，没有兴趣。 Sold.出售。 We felt safe going with the big box building supply store.我们感到非常安全，去与大方块建设供应商店。

So, on Thursday September 13, 2007, during my lunch, we (Catherine and I) went to the big box building supply store, armed with the flyer and measurements of the door entrance.因此，在周四2007年9月13日，在我的午餐，我们（凯瑟琳和我）到大方块建设供应商店，武装起来的传单和测量的大门入口。 We knew we wanted to address the above mentioned issues we had with the current door, but had no other knowledge.我们知道我们要解决上述问题，我们已与目前的门口，但没有其他的知识。 We had never done this before (like most of the renovations we had undertaken on our home), so everything was new to us.我们从来没有这样做之前（如大部分的装修，我们曾承诺对我们的家） ，所以一切新的给我们。

When we looked at the different models in the door section of the store and talked with the sales associate, we were told that ”You can, but I don’t really recommend you order the door today.” We were also told by the sales associate “The sales price is only for doors ordered this weekend.”当我们期待在不同型号的在门第的商店，并与销售协理，我们被告知： “你可以，但我真的不建议您为了今天的大门， ”我们也告诉销售准“的销售价格只适用于门，下令本周末” 。

Return tomorrow for what that how we dealt with our first learning event in our quest for our new front door.返回的明天是什么，我们如何处理我们的第一次学习活动，在我们追求我们的新前门。

Oh, and in case you are one of those who likes to skip to the end of the book to see how it ends, we can show you the door currently installed in the front of our home.哦，在情况下，您是其中一人谁喜欢跳过到去年底，这本书看它如何结束后，我们可以为您显示的大门，目前已安装在前端，我们的家。 Remember, the installation is still not finished 6+ months after we first went to order the door.请记住，安装仍是未完成6 +个月后，我们首先前往秩序的大门。

To continue with the next article in this series, simply select this link to继续与下篇文章在这一系列，只需选择此链接 Part 2 - The Measurements第2部分-测量 . 。