Hi all, after finding out that my door's threshold was hand made and therefore its nearly impossible to find a replacement I am going to be making a replacement myself. I plan on buying pressure treated piece of wood and making it myself. Final dimmension I need are 6ft x 6 inches and 1/2inch thickness. With 1/2 inch tapers on either side. This is the picture of the piece I am trying to recreate - [URL]https://imgur.com/a/As0bPas[/URL] [ATTACH]93268[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]93269[/ATTACH] I envision buying a 72x6x1 (or 72x6x3/4) piece of wood and then shaping it. I got a circular hand saw. Im thinking I need a hand plane, and a belt sander (or can I get away with hand sanding?) My two main concerns are: 1) Tapering the edges to about 45 degrees 1/2 inch on each side. 2) Making it thinner, current one is 1/2 inch but maybe over 40 years and because its rotting through it actually was 3/4 originally? Is hand plane best tool for both of these jobs? Or am I heading totally into wrong direction? While Ive done quite a bit of wood working over the years, I have never used a hand plane before so I am not sure what its capable of. Please school me :) Thanks!

Hello everyone, i have a leak from top of the sliding door inside installed a few year back. It is not very bad leak but keep dripping when it is raining. Above the door is a window new last year installed. leak happen when it is a heavy rain with wind blows same direction where is the door. leak comes from the top of the door frame and going down on side frame to the bottom inside the frame and drip at the same time a bit from the top of sliding door on the glass. i resealed all the bricks outside with mortar and new roof, gutters are clean. From the window on the second floor i do not have any leaks below the window only from the door frame on first floor not on the wall only on the frame on the door. It is old house with black paper inside like insulation. Any help with ideas where the water comes from.