Weekend Lessons Learned.
1. When ordering materials from Lowe's, use the Commercial Desk. Those guys know what they're doing and are very helpful. The sales floor people? Not so much.
2. When preparing to hang doors, the first order of business is ensuring the door frame is plumb.
3. Do not install siding and trim before hanging doors unless you are absolutely positively certain the doorway is plumb.
4. Pay close attention to how hinges swing.
5. If one ignores numbers 2 and 3 of this list, one must remove all siding and trim from around the doorway, cut into the door framing, make the stupid thing plumb, then hang the doors, then re-install the siding and trim, including cutting new siding pieces to replace the ones that are too short now that the door is properly framed.
5. When all is said and done, be proud of the final outcome:
All we have to do now is wait for our J-channel order to come in from Lowe's today, then we can finish up the gable ends. We could possibly have had them done, but we didn't use the Commercial Desk at Lowe's for our first order, and the sales floor clerk a) ordered the wrong quantities of materials; b) sold us the more expensive siding without mentioning there was an alternative; and c) ordered siding that took 2 weeks to get here when we found out (through the awesome worker at the Commercial Desk) that we could have had the cheaper stuff in TWO DAYS. Rock!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BECKY!
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