Daily Home Renovation Tips

Not quite.

Where do we start?

Well, between the inside and the outside is the door sweep at the bottom of the door. The door sweep was discovered to be damaged by Dave when he removed she covering protecting the door. Without the door sweep, this is what you get.

We had to wait around two weeks before an undamaged door sweep was installed. So, in it’s place we simply had a towel stuffed into the opening which was between 1/4 and 1/2 inch. And remember, this is the middle of winter in Canada! Try opening the door with a towel stuffed in that gap.

Next, the measurements that pushed back our actual order date by two weeks were wrong. In the picture below you see a space between the top of the door frame and the fascia of the eves trough.

That is because the incorrect measurements taken by a ‘professional’ did not include the need for a horizontal frame insert above the door frame itself.

Next, the fascia began to buckle. In the picture below you can see how the fascia is no longer straight across. This actually get’s worse several weeks in the future when the missing horizontal piece between the top of the door frame and the fascia is inserted.

Oh, and the building supply retailer did not supply black caulking to Dave, the installer. So nothing was caulked outside.

As well, the building supply retailer did not supply Dave, the installer, with black plugs to insert into the screw holes on the black cladding on the outside of the door (see above pictures as well)

And, there was one final problem. Remember this term for a future post. The term is ‘fibre tear’.

To continue with our front door replacement adventures, simply select the link to Part 11 - The Return of Dave.