The annoying door...
Back in December I started to work on my brotherâs basement, and finish out a portion of the area to be two bedrooms and also frame in the bathroom. It has been a project that he and I have worked on, off and on for the past 9 months or so.
We had "finished" one room in April so that I could have a room to myself. That is to say, the sheetrock work was done and paint went onto the walls to allow for my brothers office to be moved to the basement of the house out of the "boiler room" that became my room for the summer.
To make the space work well we decided to put the two bedroom doors on 45 degree angles into each room as to "maximize" space. Well the room that was finished the doorframe went in beautiful. It had caused no problem what so ever. It was the other doorframe that has been causing me grief and the main reason that the other room wasnt finished anywhere close the first. See, although everything says the frame is level and square, the door frame was off...big time, and so in hanging the door so that it closed correctly the doorframe looked utterly wrong. and then making the doorframe flush with the rest of the mesh made the door not shut right.
Last night, I spent 2 hours installing the door frame flush (I had put up sheetrock and therefore the doorframe had to comply). My brother and I then spent the time to try and make minor adjustments that had huge consequences in the hanging of the door. So after trying a could of different things we ended up doing the only thing we could see that would work. We took of the bump plate from the frame hung the door so it would close correctly and then put the bump plate up to make the door look closed.
The phrase that my mother had used growing up "A man on a galloping horse couldnt tell the difference so why should we" came to mind at that moment. It looks wrong, but since a man on a galloping horse wouldnt be able to notice the many many problems with the doorframe, why should I?
It isnt like my work standards are lowered, I am sick of that damn door. And that is what I am calling it, that damned door. I sit, there and curse it over and over and over again. I dont know how many times I have hung that door, it doesnt really matter. It is hung and it wont be changing.
I have to look forward to finishing the sheetrock work over the next couple of days (my sister in law wants the room finished before I go back to school). I should get it close...I think....