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Home Renovation Project Listing - Replacement Front Door

December 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment

If there was one area of our home which we renovated that had the most frustration it would have to be with our front door.

If there is no other evidence of this, just look at the number of different articles which we wrote in this home renovation project series.

In the end we replaced a 20 year old front door and side lights which leaked a treamendous amount of cold air into the house in the winter that looked like this:

 Old Front Door Old Front Door From Inside

… to one with looked like this:

Replacement Front Door Replacement Front Door From Inside

If you are thinking about replacing your front door, I strongly recommend you take the time to go through our series on our replacement front door home renovation project. Enjoy!

Part   1 - The Ad In The Paper

Part   2 - The Measurements

Part   3 - The Order and The Discount?

Part   4 - The Waiting Game

Part   5 - Time Is Not Unlimited

Part   6 - The Installation?

Part   7 - The Installation Occurs

Part   8 - The Installation Continues

Part   9 - Installation Completed

Part 10 - The Outside

Part 11 - The Return of Dave

Part 12 - Raising The Door

Part 13 - Glass Insert Defect

Part 14 - Plugging The Inside

Part 15 - Painting The Inside

Part 16 - Where Is The Customer Service

Part 17 - Enter Amy

Part 18 - Left Hand Vs Right Hand

Part 19 - Back Over To You, Dennis

Part 20 - Enter Brent, From The Manufacturer

Part 21 - Enter Joe, Also From The Door Manufacturer

Part 22 - Judgement Day

Part 23 - The Waiting Game

Part 24 - Are We There, Yet?

Part 25 - Replacing The Replacement

Part 26 - The New Replacement Front Door

Part 27 - Differences In The Two Replacement Front Doors

Part 28 - Differences in Installation Techniques

Part 29 - Differences in Installation Techniques 2

Part 30 - Everything Is Not Perfect

Part 31 - The Comeback

Part 32 - The End?

Part 33 - Check The Vendor’s Credit Card Statement, Again

Part 34 - Credit Card Financing Details

Tags: Doors · Exterior · Painting

1 response so far ↓

  • 1 Chicago Replacement windows // Mar 18, 2009 at 11:10 pm

    Great series. The doors look fantastic afterwards. If anyone needs help with replacing doors I know Feldco does a great job and it is very reasonable. Great post!

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