Waiting Area Double Door Project

Been wanting to do this for a long time so bigger stuff could go in the waiting area.  The main thing taking up the most room in the back is the Articulating 525 that I really wanted up front.  

I had 2 of these hardwood doors since the building was built in 1997.  One went to the waiting area, the other was on a storage closet.  They were on clearance at Lowes, someone had special ordered them and never picked them up.  They had been there a long time and I offered the Manager $100 for both and he took it, not bad for exterior hardwood doors and were cheaper than the interior hollow core doors at the time.  When I built the addition on the back the storage closet was removed and of course being the pack rat I am I kept the door, shelves, etc.  

That brings me to now, it was time to put that 29 year old door back to use again.  It was really nice that the doors were right and left handed or this would have been a lot more of a pain to do.  The 1st pic of the door was taken Tuesday March 3rd after digging it out of the 4 car garage, the rest of the pics are the beginning of this when I started on it Sat before last, they were taken on Sat March 14.  A lot of wiring and switches plus 1 outlet had to be moved.  Everything was made in USA, switch boxes, switches, outlet, wiring, and all, don't see that anymore.  The wiring is all 12 gauge.  Things were a lot cheaper 29 years ago and overdoing it was the way to go.  

Will post more tomorrow, it's getting late again...

 

These pics are from March 17-20, more of getting ready for when Kevin came up last Sat inbetween work and spending time with the C-121 restore peeps last Friday.  Everything is going wireless like I did when we built dad's new barn.  The transmitters go in a magnetic wall plate so they can be removed or changed around any time.  They can also be mounted to the wall anywhere, or just put on the wall or anywhere else with double stick tape or Velcro like I've done with some.  The new wireless receivers and boxes will be mounted on the shop side to the left of the tan door once it's moved over to the left under an access panel in case I need to get to anything later.  The old switches, outlet, and wall plates are all Leviton Made in USA.  They still work perfect after 29 years so they are going in the back in my hoarding or pack rat collection.  I don't think you can buy stuff like that anywhere anymore...  

 

I had mentioned this in the "What's everybody doing" topic but some peeps shouldn't be allowed to use a coil framing nail gun, like me.  How can so many nails go in such a small area?  One thing for sure, it wasn't gonna move...   I had a lot of nail removal to do to reuse some of these, I never waste anything.  

Kevin showed up last Sat and we got the main framing and doors in.  Trying to line up basically 4 doors in one area was a real pain but it's done minus a little tweaking I had to do.  He left around 1:15AM and I was out of here a little before 2AM but the hardest part was over.     We prob would have been done sooner but it's harder to think straight after so many hours on a project in one day.  

 

There was a pretty good mess to clean up on Monday but that happens when Kevin + I do things that take a long time.  He has over an hour drive time to get home and it's usually close to or after my bed time and I still have to close up the shop...  On a good note at least things are getting done.  

It took more time but we decided to make an entirely new top door frame instead of piecing it.  Neither of us are into doing things halfway.  The doors lined up really good but not perfect but we decided I find the problem and mess with that this week when I got time.  I was pretty sure it was at the top in the framing somewhere.