Replaced my man door today.

[Bert_]

First door I've ever done but turned out well I think. The old one had been neglected for a long time. The concrete here used to slope towards the garage so the door sill was rotten in addition to the sill plate on either side.

Got new concrete poured but the guys left a high spot so I ended up having to grind it. Oh well, it drains now.

I read about a guy using treated lumber to repair window sills. Since the old growth lumber that was used originally is pretty much unavailable I thought I'd try treated. It's pretty wet so I'll let it dry over the winter and paint it next spring. Hopefully that all works out as planned. I would have rathered to let it dry before doing anything with it but it's getting late enough in the year I wanted a decent door.

The door was salvaged and cost nothing other than time to do some repairs and paint. I really enjoyed building a traditional door frame. There are a couple things I'm not totally happy with but overall it's great.

 

[captain14]

The door installation looks good from here. Hopefully you stained sealed all 6 side of the door frame? Or as the entire frame made from PT?

 

[Bill Bowman]

Sometimes you just have to "get er done". Looks good.

 

[nadogail]

From where I sit, it looks pretty good.

 

[Bert_]

The door installation looks good from here. Hopefully you stained sealed all 6 side of the door frame? Or as the entire frame made from PT?

The whole frame is PT. I knew setting the frame so close to the ground would be problematic without something rot resistant. If I was doing it again I might spend the extra and get cedar for the casing. I used 5/4 PT deck boards for the casing since they were relatively cheap but they aren't great boards for this, that's the only part I don't like. The jamb turned is 1X10 PT, It turned out great, I wouldn't change anything with that.

I've read mixed reviews about painting PT wood. Seems like the main thing is it needs to be dry before you paint. People who had problems painted while it was still wet. So this will likely stay the way it is until next spring. Then I'll prime and paint all the bare wood an off white / cream color.

 

[sayoda]

Looks good!

Definitely give the pt time to dry out before painting.

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[Bert_]

Glad I got it done. Weather isn't quite so nice right now. Garage is about 40* inside right now and the heater is warming it up to 55*. I would have had snow inside with the old door.

I really like the looks. A real casing (even when it's unpainted) looks much better than the brickmold that most prehung doors have.

 

[captain14]

What’s your plan for the missing siding above the door? A more pronounced head casing?

 

[The Cobbler]

good job indeed
I would let the PT weather for 6 to 8 months at least

 

[Bert_]

What’s your plan for the missing siding above the door? A more pronounced head casing?

Head casing will stay like it is. It's 5.5" wide plus the drip cap. Those are good dimensions. I kind of like seeing the little icicles on the drip cap. It's doing its job keeping the water away from the door. Bed moulding under the drip cap would really finish it off.

The old door itself was about 2" taller and had a much higher threshold so that's where the gap came from.

The tar paper will keep everything dry for now. The vinyl siding job isn't that great and I don't like it. The easy answer is to just replace the two pieces of vinyl that are cut. That's almost certainly what I'll end up doing but I'd really love to tear all the vinyl off. So I'll ignore it for a while and pretend like there's a possibility of it all coming off.

For now I'm pretty happy to just use the door. It looks real good, in my opinion anyway. Maybe I'm a little weird but I get nothing from the prehung steel door on the back of my house. There is a nice original wood door on the front of my house and now this door on the garage and I really like using them. How's that for a simple pleasure.

 

[smackey05]

The door looks great. The white door looks almost identical to the one that was on my garage.