freeradical426
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A previous owner of my home had converted our small 2-car garage into a second living area. He did it so poorly and the space was so awkward, that we went ahead and converted it back to a garage, and have been much happier being able to park our cars indoors for the last few months :-D
In this thread I need some help with the space directly under the new pre-hung interior/exterior door that we installed as part of the garage un-conversion. This would be the door that runs from the garage into our house. From here on I will just call this "the door".
The garage, as it was originally built, had a concrete tire stop built into it, as many garages do. Sometime later, a new divider wall was built right in front of the tire stop. For some reason the owner (at that time) chose to lay down treated 4x4 posts as the base for the new wall -- to bring it up in line with the rest of the house, I suppose. So this 4x4 base now defines the plane of division between the house and the garage. Our new door (THE door) is set into this wall.
It's a bit of a longer story involving some removal of extra homeowner-added concrete pads, but what we have NOW is a situation where the prehung door is anchored strongly into the studs on either side of it, but is not really resting on anything below. The reason things turned out this way is not important -- misunderstanding between myself and the contractor. But the point is, there is a "break" in the 4x4 post, right underneath this door. It is empty space in there, and the edges of this empty space are pretty ragged due to some concrete debris, a little decay on the edges of the 4x4s, and so on.
So the situation, basically, is that the aluminum threshold for new door has nothing under it. For the time being I have shoved in a couple of 2x6s under the threshold, and shimmed it suitably enough so that the threshold has temporary structural support.
There is also a small (~1/4") air gap between the bottom of the aluminum threshold, and the top of our in-house flooring, which drops off to the garage concrete floor, about an inch inside the threshold.
To fix this, I need to fill in this "gap" under the threshold with something strong that can be cleanly finished. I haven't done anything like this kind of work before, so I would love some suggestions. It is an irregularly-shaped space to fill, as I mentioned. My initial thought was concrete of course. But the only way to pour in concrete will be from the garage side. And the garage side will need to be closed off as part of the form work ... so I don't see that as an option.
Any other ideas would be appreciated! Thanks.
**I expect the description of my situation above is pretty hard to comprehend ... I will include some photos here later, if that's what's needed to get the point across.
In this thread I need some help with the space directly under the new pre-hung interior/exterior door that we installed as part of the garage un-conversion. This would be the door that runs from the garage into our house. From here on I will just call this "the door".
The garage, as it was originally built, had a concrete tire stop built into it, as many garages do. Sometime later, a new divider wall was built right in front of the tire stop. For some reason the owner (at that time) chose to lay down treated 4x4 posts as the base for the new wall -- to bring it up in line with the rest of the house, I suppose. So this 4x4 base now defines the plane of division between the house and the garage. Our new door (THE door) is set into this wall.
It's a bit of a longer story involving some removal of extra homeowner-added concrete pads, but what we have NOW is a situation where the prehung door is anchored strongly into the studs on either side of it, but is not really resting on anything below. The reason things turned out this way is not important -- misunderstanding between myself and the contractor. But the point is, there is a "break" in the 4x4 post, right underneath this door. It is empty space in there, and the edges of this empty space are pretty ragged due to some concrete debris, a little decay on the edges of the 4x4s, and so on.
So the situation, basically, is that the aluminum threshold for new door has nothing under it. For the time being I have shoved in a couple of 2x6s under the threshold, and shimmed it suitably enough so that the threshold has temporary structural support.
There is also a small (~1/4") air gap between the bottom of the aluminum threshold, and the top of our in-house flooring, which drops off to the garage concrete floor, about an inch inside the threshold.
To fix this, I need to fill in this "gap" under the threshold with something strong that can be cleanly finished. I haven't done anything like this kind of work before, so I would love some suggestions. It is an irregularly-shaped space to fill, as I mentioned. My initial thought was concrete of course. But the only way to pour in concrete will be from the garage side. And the garage side will need to be closed off as part of the form work ... so I don't see that as an option.
Any other ideas would be appreciated! Thanks.
**I expect the description of my situation above is pretty hard to comprehend ... I will include some photos here later, if that's what's needed to get the point across.