I have to replace a rear entrance storm door on a store. The entrance door is a standard height, 30 inches wide. The patio slopes upwards making the height of the storm door 2 inches less, 76 inches. I presume that the owner can buy a standard height storm door & that there will be enough room in the sweep to compensate for the 2 inches. Is that correct?

Our house is late 1940s vintage. The previous home owner replaced several of the flush interior doors with painted hardwood 6 panel doors with new hardware, but left the original frames and hinges in tact. This included changing out the original strike plates. The original were apparently T-strikes at 2 1/2" tall and 1" wide with holes spaced 1 7/8" apart. They replaced them with standard strike plates at 2 1/4" tall with holes spaced 1 5/8" apart. To make it work, they only installed one of two screws. Of course this leaves part of the chiselled out shape from the previous plate exposed above and below visible, the cutout for the latch doesn't quite line up with the hole in the frame, and we have found that using only one screw leaves the bottom half loose and liable to be caught and bent. We would like to go back to the original T-Strike, but T-strikes manufactured today are 2 3/4" tall and 1 1/8" wide with screw holes spaced 2 1/8" apart. We could chisel the recess larger to accommodate, but that wouldn't solve screw holes that are off by 1/8" in each direction. Any thoughts on making this work would be greatly appreciated. Also, one of the newer doors is undersized by about 1/2" so that a fully recessed strike plate doesn't fully engage the latch to keep the door closed. Any thoughts on attractively padding the hinges or the stike plate or the jamb to bridge this gap? Thanks!