… door handles, a door latch and even locks and kets on our door now.
And not only that, the bottom has been trimmed so that it opens and closes correcclty, and the battens have been fitted to the door frame to prevent the door from going through the frame.
Fitting the lock took longer than I thought that it would, but then again, if you want anything doing, you may as well do it correctly. And it was done so “correctly” too that the 5mm pilot drill that I used to drill through the door to site the hole in the latch where the handle will fit, that went right through without touching the sides and for the keyholes, I was about 2mm out of position.
Even the through-bolts for the door plates, the upper one was spot-on and the lower one was 2mm out too.
You can’t get much better than all of that.
The question of battens was not so simple though. The distance between the doorplate and the frame is only 20mm so using a 27mm lath was clearly out of the question. One alternative was to trim off a length from an 18mm pine plank, but rummaging around in the barn I found a 4m length of 18×40 lath left over from when I built the verandah, and that did the business perfecrly. A run-over with the belt sander cleaned that up really nicely.
And while I was rummaging around in the barn, I found something that I knew that I had and which I didn’t have a clue where I had put them – half a dozen 60cm pine planks. Propped up against the central beam in the barn, hidden behing two chipboard and one OSB boards about which I had also forgotten.
I’ve made a start on emptying out the bedroom now. That’s not going to be quite so easy as I have nowhere to put anything. I think that maybe half a day in the barn emptying out a space where I can put the wood offcuts, the electrical conduit and the insulation – that will make a huge amount of space.
But my door does look nice and I’m really happy with that.
