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Good idea. I may have to raise the header. But I can grind the stone to fit any drainage slope I want. If you have any more tips looking back on the job, they would be fine. How thick would a piece of stone of a named type have to be to have enough strength to extend out in the air a few...

I'm now looking at cutting a 1/4" thick aluminum door sill and placing it under the aluminum threshold after I've ground down the ridge underneath which would prevent it from lying flat. My idea is to affix the sill to the concrete with tapcons and a flexible, waterproof and adhesive...

Yes, I paid an installer to do this. If I am going to call him back, knowing what can be done to fix this situation allows me to make sure it gets done. So, we are talking rebar drilled into the slab to anchor the concrete pour under the door. Good. Do you have any thoughts about a durable...

Thanks to the insight of another, I see a solution here shifting. A kind contributor elsewhere observed that the brick landing where the bad pour of rapid-set cement ended in an attachment had it spanning a joint from the garage slab making it liable to crack there. Makes sense to me. So...

I had someone hang a fiberglass side door. Although the jambs that frame the opening connect to the sole plate, there is and was only concrete under the swinging area of the door. That concrete cracked when the tenaciously-adhered threshold of the old door was pried up. The installer used...