Hello all, I have one badly rotten patio door that needs replacing. The house has aluminum siding and the trim is all aluminum too. I've torn part of it apart and it looks like after the door was installed, they simply put 1x4's to trim around the door and then covered them with aluminum. Now a new door should be fairly close in size to this door but I hardly believe I'll be able to reuse these old 1x4 pieces covered with aluminum. Any thoughts to this? My other question is about the siding below the door. I could potentially build a deck here but as of right now no deck is planned. The reason I say this is that the rim joist is completely gone below this sliding door for one cavity and it may reach into another. So this means I'll be adding new bracing, beefing up a couple of the floor joists with sistered on joists and some new plywood flooring, stupid termites/water! It would be very hard to remove the existing siding and reinstall it in this location in my opinion (no siding experience really). The one piece runs right behind the cable/power meter/ telephone boxes. What can be done to trim this out and make it look decent? Something like a white piece of aluminum that runs the length of the door and goes from the bottom of the door all the way over the rim joist? Any insight is greatly appreciated! [IMG]http://www.skipshosting.com/door.JPG[/IMG]

My Kitchen door swings outward .I would like to install a screen door but I don't want it to open inward.How can this be done?So the screen door opened outward.Cecil.