McLeod
Forest Lurker
Evening fellow modelers!
The new backdoor is in! It opens and is square and level. I still have to throw in some spray-foam insulation around the edges and trim it out with new molding, but I can lock it solid tonight, and keep the riff-raff out.
I did discover that my house walls are not square and level, and that gave me some grief; but I worked it out. One should know, you don't level a door to the wall. The installation must be made true with a good level; and I have a 4' one.
Something neat, though. When I tore out the old door frame. I found a 7-UP bottle cap from the 1960's. It was under the door frame. The cap has a real cork liner, and is in great shape. How many of you remember bottle caps had real cork liners!? I clearly remember; from when I was a child.
That bottle cap does possibly date this house as an earlier build than the 1969 I was told.
Ya'all know I gotta show a photo if I post; so how about some Timber Wolf tracks in the dried mud on the trail. I took the photo on a hunting excursion in 2016. The Winchester was laid down just to show some scale:
That wolf wasn't running from anything.
Have a good night!
The new backdoor is in! It opens and is square and level. I still have to throw in some spray-foam insulation around the edges and trim it out with new molding, but I can lock it solid tonight, and keep the riff-raff out.
I did discover that my house walls are not square and level, and that gave me some grief; but I worked it out. One should know, you don't level a door to the wall. The installation must be made true with a good level; and I have a 4' one.
Something neat, though. When I tore out the old door frame. I found a 7-UP bottle cap from the 1960's. It was under the door frame. The cap has a real cork liner, and is in great shape. How many of you remember bottle caps had real cork liners!? I clearly remember; from when I was a child.
That bottle cap does possibly date this house as an earlier build than the 1969 I was told.
Ya'all know I gotta show a photo if I post; so how about some Timber Wolf tracks in the dried mud on the trail. I took the photo on a hunting excursion in 2016. The Winchester was laid down just to show some scale:
That wolf wasn't running from anything.
Have a good night!