Well I got the second coat of urethane on the front door sidelight finally! One more coat to go but at least it’s pretty protected with 2 coats. I had to get it done pretty early so I could leave the door open while it dries which takes a few hours.
Then I got some blueberry muffins baked and some cherries pitted (to be frozen for shakes). Not a bad day off so far. Time for some quick chores and maybe I’ll get an hour to relax or so before Ryan gets home.
Mom and Dad came out Friday night so we could get an early start on Saturday. Friday night Ryan and I got some of the wood off around the diningroom windows and got the room ready to go.
I set up the camera on Saturday to take a picture every 10 minutes of our progress and I made a short video of the window install. We managed to get the 3 diningroom windows installed and the last livingroom window closed up before dinner Saturday. I’ll let the movie speak for itself 🙂
(note these may only work in windows)
Diningroom Window Install – click for movie
Then we moved onto the front door project – again I set up the camera to capture our progress. The door project actually went through dinner, then wrapped up for the night and we finished it up just after lunch on Sunday. The door looks amazing and tonight I’ll get the sidelight and frame sanded and stained if I can get off the couch again 🙂
Here’s our front door video:
Click for Front Door Install movie
What an amazing amount of work we got done this weekend and we never would have gotten this amount done without Dad’s help. It was great that mom and dad could come out and help with these projects, it made everything go a little faster with an expert’s help. I am hurting now though, my feet can’t even hold me up and unfortunately a headache is rampaging. Time for some tylenol and a nap maybe and I can get back into some work.
I finished getting the teak oil on the new porch furniture last night, then I got the rest of the second coat of urethane on the front door. One more coat to go on each side!
We got a table with 4 chairs and a bench for the porch. Since we don’t currently have a diningroom we can eat out here when we get tired of the livingroom 🙂
After I got home late from work I managed to get a coat on the exterior side of the door. A quick sand and cleanup then a coat of urethane and it’s on coat 2 now. Tonight I’ll get coat 2 on the inside of the door.
Yesterday I got a coat of spar urethane on the door, one side done in the morning, the other at night. If i can sand and do a coat per side each night I should be doing the last coat on friday.
Unfortunately the door frame itself is still not done (and side light). But I can do that after the door’s installed. I just don’t want to have to take the door of it’s hinges later.
I actually got home at a reasonable time tonight, got to the grocery store, cooked some dinner (and ate dinner for a change). Even fit in an hour of StarCraft 2 before bed. Unfortunately I then stayed up reading much to late and I’m paying for it today with a headache 🙁
Another update since I just got the stain on the second side of the door and some teak oil on 2 of our new chairs. Did I mention the new front porch furniture we got last weekend? It’s teak – a table with four chairs and a bench. I’ll take some pictures next time it’s light out. I need to oil them up so I got one coat on two of the chairs tonight just as it was getting dark. Hopefully I can finish those up some time this week.
Anyhow – the story of the door.
When we bought the side door a year ago we picked out exactly what we liked, it was a wood door, it has 2 glass panels that take up half of the door (not too much glass) and we got it unfinished so I could stain it a red mahogany color. The idea was that a year later we could buy the same door with a side light for the front door replacement.
So back to Lowe’s we went – and they no longer make this kind of door! Nothing like it, nothing with 2 glass panes on the top (rectangle, not rounded). So we hemmed and hawed and finally picked out a different door that has a similar glass pattern but has a large 3/4 glass panel and one side light. It doesn’t clash with the side door and since they’re not side by side it won’t matter but all that effort last year to pick something we could match! All for nothing 🙂
Anyhow I think the new front door will look quite nice and a larger glass panel will let more light in even if it means less privacy (although we can see who is at the door which will be a nice change). Plus more glass means less wood to finish 🙂 Just sayin ….
We had a wedding to attend up in Northern NH so most of the weekend was spent up there however we made it back home at a reasonable hour Sunday and since our new door had arrived (we picked it up friday night) we decided to start finishing it.
First came the unpacking – the door was supposed to come with no casing on it – however it came with some small casing that we then had to remove. We were not happy about this but it would take a couple weeks to get another door and taking the casing off wasn’t that hard.
Then we had to get the door out of the frame for finishing which was tough, the door frame has a sidelight so this is a little larger than our last door. Finally the door was free and we got down to sanding it.
A few sore fingers and backs later we had a door prepped and ready to stain. There was no way we were also prepping the sidelight and frame today but I think schedule wise that’s okay, I can finish “finishing” it after it’s installed – I’d like to have the door on it’s hinges though so it needs to be finished first.
Finally I got a coat of stain on the first side:
Time for a quick game of starcraft 2 and then I’ll stain the other side. Tomorrow I can start the urethane procedure, one coat on one side each night. By Sunday it should be done 🙂