Sun 6 Jan 2008
Front Door Wood Rot
Yesterday I poked a screwdriver into the rotten wood at the bottom of our front door jamb just to see how far in it would go. Ten minutes later I had removed about 4″ of rotten wood and was facing another urgent project.
A trip to Lowe’s indicated that labor and permits to install a new door would exceed $500 and that wouldn’t include the price of a new door. So instead I’ll try to reconstruct a piece of wood to fill in this gap. And until I can get that done I filled it with a few small pieces of wood block and Great Stuff.
January 6th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
we had the same problem. the door was fine though so it was just replacing the jamb. my neighbor did it and did a great job. want his number?