I have a rotted exterior door jamb that I want to replace. I did this once a while back and I'm trying to recall what I have to deal with.
I need to replace the hinge side jamb of a right hand door that opens to the house. I have a spare jamb, pictured, which I took off a new door a while back.
But I'm thinking that what I have in the pic is a lock side jamb...(because one end is slanted on the wrong end, vs what I need for the hinge side)
Straight End.
Slanted End.
Am I perceiving this right?
Can someone help me tease this apart? Or else can I get a generic exterior jamb from the lumber store, then tweak the ends as needed? Thanks!
ps I'm not interested in replacing the entire door.
Door threshold always slopes from inside the home to the outside, so the jamb piece in the photo can only go one side without changing the slope on the bottom of the jamb piece.
I have a 3 door (36") opening on the side of a sun room where the jambs are rotting. I am confident I can redo the "composite" door unit and rebuild the transom frame, but I'm unsure what to do with the threshold. I really don't want to pay 10k for a prebuilt unit. The way I see it, I have 3 options:
1) Pay for a custom door to be built 10' wide with the transom
2) Recreate the door unit/rebuild transom and install on top of existing threshold
3) Same as 2, but replace threshold.
I'm inclined to go with #3 while I am ripping it all out, but getting a 10' threshold seems scarce. For the dummy doors on the side, I don't care too much what the threshold does as long as it runs away from the house. For the active door, I'd like to buy a prehung, but I assume I will need to remove the included threshold and adapt to a new one? If the new threshold has a continuous raised area for the sweep, will I need to notch this for the jamb or the other way around? I need to tear a bit more up on the existing door to see how it was done before. The 5/4 framing holding the unit together goes all the way down to the subfloor, so the aluminum must be notched somewhere, I just want to plan it out before instead of day of construction. Based on the second photo, is it possible the thresholds are individual and then there is an extension that locks them all together in the front?
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[i]Door unit[/i]
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[i]Continuous threshold [/i]
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[i]View of damage and how it is constructed[/i]
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Hi,
I have a bay window that the bottom seat has begun to rot on the outside.
The wood is rotted about 1/2- 3/4 way back. The vinyl wrap at the front has been loose causing water infiltration.
I'm pretty sure the windows uses cables for support. There is no bottom support. I it does not appear the bottom shelf provides any support.
Can the bottom shelf be removed and replaced (at least 1/2 way)
Is it better to remove from inside?
Thank you
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