I’m done…  man if someone i hired took as long as i did I’d have fired them and talked bad about em… to fab, set,hang, trim, caulk, insulate prime & paint  5, 8ft doors 4 with transoms i had to make… and 4 windows…

walls are over 12″ thick… the inside was plastered at on time some 100+ years ago…  no opening was plumb in any plane… cast iron header… cast concrete lintel for the doors as they use to be windows before i cut them out…  nothing to attach anything to…that would hold anything… so everything had to hold everything… and everything had to be scribed an fit… had to build all the jams due to the way things were no 2 doors are exaxctly the same size but had to appear to be on the same plane… lots of extending jams… that had a min of 1″ taper top to btm…

BUT all doors swing as they should and appear square… all are set… foamed… insulated… primed all sides… every piece of word was back primed… everything was glued & screwed… and it all has at least one coat of paint on it…  no 2 were trimmed exactly the same… yet they all look the same… even had to put a 8″ diamond masonary wheel on my angle grinder and “correct” the edges of the brick where it met the trim…… I did reuse some of the original 5″ hand planed trim on all the window casings… since i went from 8 windows to 4 i was able to save enough to get it done… i had to trim some ends… wow heart pine trim with so many growth rings in 3/4″ i couldn’t count em… and smelled like new pine as it was cut…  some things you just can’t describe…

I didn’t work on this full time but i did work on it everyday some…. for all of 3 weeks…

one more thing thats “done” 

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