We continue our mudding and sanding in the closet. The drywall work is finally done.
Wednesday, January 27
Well, we've finally arrived at the task of trimming the door jambs for the closet and the entry door to the bathroom. They are in very close proximity, and the trim for the two doors will actually be touching. So they really need to be trimmed out as one big trim project.
The rest of the bathroom project was undertaken with a lot of careful forethought, sketches and pre-visualization of the final result. This door trim project has been a nagging afterthought that has been, well frankly, ignored for the duration. We have figured that we'll just "make it work" later on.
Uh oh. (yep, yet another Uh oh... but the end is in sight, it has to be.)
The top door jamb of the closet door is about 1/2" lower than the entry door. After a good period of contemplating a solution, we decide that we better call up the carpenter to come over and advise. Fortunately, he is available to stop by this evening. Due to the tight size of our bathroom, the dimensional tolerance for just about everything are unforgiving.
The carpenter is having a hard time coming up with a solution to the door jamb height issue, when he spots a worse issue--the wall that is to contain the door is out-of-square--the right side of the door is about 1/2" further into the closet than the left. This wall is sloppy, but could be tolerated, if not for the tight space where it is located.
It's my fault; I noticed the flaw when I installed that wall. Immediately after driving about 20 nails into the studs, I stepped back and saw it. Removing the door did not seem like a project I wanted to undertake; "we can make it work later," I thought.
The carpenter comes to the conclusion that the wall simply needs to be fixed; that is, made square and to the same height as the entry door. Luckily, he is available tomorrow to fix it.
Also, to add more drama, Sue has come home from work with a stomach flu (and to say she is sick is a very big understatement, she resembles a production of a B-rate zombie horror flick.) I hope I don't catch it. On top of that, Lisa and Peter are supposed to be showing up on Friday to have some fun in the city. Time to give them a call and let them know that we have a cootie-house, might need to reschedule.
Thursday, January 28
The carpenters are here. I am surprised to see that the wall fix requires chopping out our wall and doing it over. Fail. How embarrassing.
By the end of the day, the carpenters have rebuilt the wall and door jamb, taped and mudded the new drywall, and they even managed to hang the closet door.
Friday, January 29
The carpenters are doing all the work today. By the end of the day, they have both doors hung and have done a second coat of mud. Things just seem to go faster when call in the pros. Strange how that works, or perhaps it makes perfect sense, you certainly get what you pay for sometimes with do-it-yourself projects.
On a side note, Sue is still sick but she isn't quite the scary shade of green anymore.
Here is what the closet looks like without all the trim or painting in place...
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