It’s Labor Day, let’s get laboring. After taking a few days off from ALL work, I woke up this morning and decided today was the day to get back at it.  There is a list of work to do that grows longer every day. Remove one, add two.  However, not wanting to overdo the holiday and the weekend, I settled on installing the Work Box man door.  It is an easy job and not having to open, close, and lock the hatch daily would be nice. 

Besides, this is a really nice door.

Why? Why? Why?

Why does the Planner have to make the tolerances so tight?  On everything? Since the door frame is metal and welded into place, in order to fit the wooden door into place, the wooden door frame had to be modified.

“Just sand off the corners”, he said.  “Nothing to it”, he said.

Ha! Nothing to it. Where have I heard that before? The door frame had to be completely disassembled and planed.  The ever faithful handheld sand was not gonna cut it.  Don’t get me wrong, the job wasn’t completely difficult, it just took more time than expected.  This was supposed to be a open-close job.

Had trimming had to be done with a hand sander, the job would have tipped into the true work category.  But with machinery available, sanding was completed in less time than it took to get the machine out from storage.  As an added bonus, with ear protectors on to drown out the noise, watching sawdust fall was very therapeutic.

Once finished, the door was glued and nailed together.  Guess that is enough work for this labor day.  When the next door/window frames are made I will make sure (by gently nagging the Planner) to allow for some tolerance.  Better to have than have not.  That is what they invented caulk.  Space fillers.