The doors

No, not the 1960/70s rock group (Jim Morrison, Riders on the Storm and all that – dates me, eh…) but the ones I recently acquired to have installed inside my new house. After I’d picked them up from Leroy Merlin a week or so ago in the van I’d hired, I’d dropped them off in the barn at Malbec in which I have my aircraft where they’ve remained ever since. Here are a couple of shots of the front and back of one that I took at the time.

The doors are supplied already hung in their door frames complete with locks ready to be installed.

The workmen who are installing the interior ceilings and walls would usually install the doors at the same time but as I cancelled the ones that the builder would have supplied, installation of interior doors has been excluded from the contract. Nevertheless, as they need to make the apertures in the partition walls of the correct dimensions we agreed that I’d drop a door round as a reference for them to work to.

I’ve now come to an arrangement, as I expected I probably would, for them to install all of the doors for me. It makes sense as they’ll do a better job than I would and it will also be one less job for me to do as I’ll already have enough of a list when I move in. When they left yesterday they left me the key for the house so I could put the doors inside so this morning I went round and picked them up three at a time in my large trailer.

Getting them in and out all by myself was a hefty job and as I was lifting the last one to carry it into the house something ‘popped’ in my left elbow. It was quite painful and my arm became quite weak afterwards but here are some shots that I took anyway starting with the last two in my trailer before I lifted them out to take them indoors.

And now all of the doors inside ready to be installed, although they’ll have to be moved before they are so the interior walls can be put into place.

When I dropped the doors inside, I also noticed that as well as putting up one horizontal support bar all around the interior walls, the workmen had also marked out the floor to what I suppose will be the full width of the walls including insulation. I have no idea what the second line is for.

The weather’s still great and I’m planning on doing the second brake on my Savannah tomorrow. Until then I’m just going to be giving my elbow a bit of a rest 🙁