Our first full day back home, after the barge experience. I’m painting the first of three doors. Look at those very cute little hinges!
I’ll prob’ do two coats of green, and poss’ the same number for the internal off-white face? Mounting this door will be interesting! The pins or nails supplied are too long for some of these mountings. They’d protrude!
I might have to do some kind of trial run, or mock up? As I don’t want to butcher the model at this stage. I’m also not sure how I’ll fix it in place. Poss’ I can cut the nails/pins down, and superglue them in situ’?
Do I have it opening internally or externally? The equivalent door on the old/original shed opens inwards. But this loses us precious internal space. I’d rather it opened outwards.
How then mount it? So the cladding doesn’t interfere with operations? Hmmm…
Rather annoyingly, if not unexpectedly, mounting the door hasn’t been straightforward. Just as with hanging a real door, it’s always tricky.
In this instance, the fixing points in the structural frame were above hollows, as opposed to being over/through structural beams. I’ve had to glue in blocks, for the pins to mount to.
And in doing so, a bit of damage has been done to some cladding. Hey-ho! It’ll just need patching up, I s’pose!? I’ve had to order new micro drill bits, as I can’t find any of my old ones.