Posts Tagged ‘storm door’

HOC: Breezeway – Front Storm Door

// November 24th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // House-of-Chaos, Tiny House Projects

After replacing the back storm door first, I felt confident enough to tackle replacing the front storm door all by myself.  I decided that white would be a better color for the front.  So I didn’t have to special order this door.

I selected the same model door I did for the back storm door; the Larson Tradewinds I picked it up from Lowe’s and brought it home, ready to hang.  I set up some sawhorses in the breezeway and went to town:

Just for reference, this is what I was working with:

Original Storm Door - Front Breezeway

Original Storm Door - Front Breezeway

and this is my set-up for working inside the breezeway to avoid rain:

Chinagrrrl’s always read the instructions and work with the proper tools before starting:

Instructions

Instructions

and then we go to town hanging that sucker:

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Click on any of the thumbnail images to go to the Flick’r page detailing my door hanging extravaganza.

Tiny House Project: Back Storm Door

// August 27th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // House-of-Chaos, Tiny House Projects

It’s finished and it’s in.  It looks and works great!  The Larson Storm door that we installed on the back breezeway entrance is on the House of Chaos.

Larson Storm Door on the Back Breezeway

Larson Storm Door on the Back Breezeway

You can read about the selection of the door at our earlier post, but the installation went pretty smooth.  I needed to strip, sand and refinish the inner sash of the door to make it look nice, and there was a tiny bit of planing needed to one vertical board to make it fit perfectly square.

I like it!

HOC: Storm Door (Back Breezeway)

// July 5th, 2009 // 4 Comments » // House-of-Chaos, Tiny House Projects

You can see the cats peeled back an aluminum panel to make their own kitty door.

You can see the cats peeled back an aluminum panel to make their own "kitty door".

When we moved into the new House-of-Chaos, the storm doors were in sad shape.  First, they were the cheapest doors available on the market 20 years ago.  Next, they had never had their pneumatic closers replaced so they slammed every time you closed them.  Next, they had flimsy lower panels which the Chaos Cats immediately saw as vulnerable and their doorway to the outside world.  They immediately head-butted through them and made their own “kitty door”.

Bah.

So.  I knew they all needed replaced.  (more…)