5 November 2018

Installed the screen rack in the barn loft this morning.  Not too shabby!  After lunch, finally stopped procrastinating and started building the extension jambs for the barn people door.  You’ll recall that I mistakenly ordered that door with jambs for a 4 inch thick wall, forgetting that the concrete curbs were going to be 6 inches thick.  So I have to fabricate extensions for the jambs, made significantly more challenging by the fact that the door is plumb (uh, huh) and the wall is plumb (uh, huh) but somehow there is a ³/₁₆″ difference in the jamb width between the top and the bottom of the 80″ tall door.  There also is a ¼″ difference between the door jamb and the wall framing, top to bottom, on the latch side of the door.  So the latch-side jamb extension has to be a trapezoid in two directions.  Fortunately, some adroit use of my thickness planer allowed me to achieve close enough to the two desired tapers for government work.  By whiskey drinking time, the top and latch side extension jambs were screwed into place.