Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Sliding Glass Door Instalation

On Sunday we installed our new sliding glass door!

Remember this old, broken, ugly door?
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Well, it's gone now! After a little convincing we were able to get it out of the wall.

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We started off by building the frame for the door. Since we didn't buy a pre-assembled door, and the instructions were pretty generic, we had to build it to measure how big of an opening to cut.

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Then we had to cut the opening in the wall. We started by pulling out some of the insulation and cutting the beams.

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And that left us with a very thick wall of stucco...

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Doug tried making a hole in the wall with a hammer.

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That didn't work very well, so we moved onto power tools.

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The area next to where we wanted to put the door was where a window once was. Unfortunately the stucco patch was done really thick, which made it very difficult to break without taking down the whole patch. So down came the patch.

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Goodbye pink stucco!

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The last step was cutting out the baseboard so we could stick the frame in.

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We got the frame in the hole! It fits!

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And last but not least... stick the doors in place! We have a sliding glass door now!
Doug was very happy...

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