New Garage Side Door

Our latest project has been to replace the side door on the garage...at some point you'd think we would run out of parts of this house that are at the end of their lifespan and need replacing, but sadly no.  


The side door to the garage has spent 70 years getting splashed on during the winter since none of the previous owners ever put up a gutter so that rainwater wouldn't end up pouring off the side of the garage roof and right in front of this door.  It hasn't helped that the door is right next to the hose bib and we tend to like to do cleaning tasks in the area that also end up splashing the door.  

This is the old door, badly rotted.

And so, off came the old door and we picked up a new basic exterior slab door at the local big box home improvement store.  We ended up having to do some considerable cutting down since the old opening is several inches smaller than the width of the smallest door they had at the store.  The new door was also pre-primed (yay!) 

After some cutting and sanding, then hole drilling and painting, we have a new door on the side of the garage.  Not only did we add a threshold and door sweep to make sure we are catching any water issues right at the door, we also bought a Plexiglas panel to put on the lower part of the door. 

New door with Plexiglas panel.

This is our last garage project until later this year when we start on the second set of interior cabinets, which can't happen until after I get some electrical work done (currently scheduled to happen when I bring in electricians for the kitchen remodel.)