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| old door handle |
Sunday after church and after an excellent lunch at Texas Roadhouse (thanks Mom and Dwight!!) Dan, Kaylee and I went to Lowe's for the necessary trimmings needed to finish my door. We ended up spending a long time in the store thanks to my indecisiveness and love for browsing their aisles. But in the end I found the trimming I wanted and even priced out the materials I would need for another project coming soon to my house!!
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| tools! |
Due to the uneven lines of the house where the door has been placed; the gap between the house and the door frame is uneven all around. In some areas it is a small barely noticeable gap and in others it is about an inch. The trimming I chose is about 1 and 1/2 inches to ensure complete coverage of the gaps and to overlap the door frame a bit as well. It was $5.90 for 1 10 foot long strip. I also needed spray foam to fill the gaps from the outside of the house. After the spray foam is set a vinyl casing bead (vinyl strip with holes down it) will be places on the outside of the house and stuccoed over to repair the damage done by widening the hole. And to finish I needed a silicone caulking to line the outside bottom part of the door for airtight and weather resistance. The total for all of this was $54.43. And I am hoping to not use one container of stucco and hopefully be able to return it and recoup the $6.96. Every penny counts when you're working on a budget!
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| new and improved handle |
Kaylee is 10 and thus very easily bored when it comes to the "boring adult things" as she has referred to them. But she was great! She entertained herself and us multiple times when she used her young imagination to invent something we could make with whatever was down the aisle we were on at that time. We had a pretty good time all in all. And hey, when you spend about 2 and 1/2 hours in a home improvement store that's asking a lot!
Dan was able to borrow a miter saw from Dave and we're ready to add the trimming.
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