Framed!!

Have you seen this person? no it’s not a chimney sweep it’s Helen after a very tough session with the cutter. What has she been cutting? we before we could fit the new door frame we needed to widen the opening and cut out the existing concrete step at the bottom of the door.

New wider opening

Hole ready to take the new door step. What the photos don’t quite show is that when cutting the old frame out which was concrete, the cutter makes so much dust that a times I couldn’t see Helen inside the kitchen, and as the wind was not quite in the right place the dust got sucked into the house and left a thin film over everything.

OK frame in and all looks good here. Wedges underneath to hold it all in place while we wait for the cement to be mixed.

Special screws fitted to secure the door into the wall.

A little cement underneath to hold it up.

And more cement to fill the holes on the outside and there one door frame fitted and hopefully the wind won’t whistle through the back door in the future. as the new frame has strips under and down the sides, and top to stop the water getting blown in which it did with the old frame. It make look nice and simple here on the blog but it in fact took most of the day to finish.