Front Door

 It's time.  The front door must be fixed, and before winter.  The Husband finally found someone to come fix our door.  First the glass must be fixed.  It's a wider-than-usual door.  The glass was custom built.  The center core is leaded glass, sandwiched between two clear glass panels.  Tempered.  Heavy.  

I'm not quite sure it was properly done in the first place.  The inside leaded glass settled by a good inch or so.  Which also made the door sag.  We've replaced the bottom weather stripping a couple times.  This last time, because of the downward sag on the one side, it just totally ripped the weather stripping to pieces.  Duct tape isn't exactly my decorating choice.  It looks ugly, besides which there's a huge hole - if I can see that much daylight coming in, the cold and bugs can also make their way inside.  

The fix-it guy said we should probably get the glass fixed first.  Then he'll replace the hinges with heavy duty ball-bearing hinges, replace the weather stripping and fill the screw holes holding the glass in place with plugs.  Which we thought were supposed to have been installed originally and it has bothered me pretty much every time I look at the door.

First step:  measure the glass.  And wait for fabrication of  temporary glass to be in the door while they work on fixing the leaded glass panels.  Install temporary glass.  

Step two:  wait.  

Step three:  wait some more.

Step four:  the glass company will re-install the glass panels (actual door and the full length side lights). Including sealing all the edges where the original installer broke the interior part of the frames so they're loose and letting in all sorts of cold/hot air.

Step  five:  probably wait some more.  :^)

Step six:  have fix-it guy come back with hinges, screw hole plugs and weather stripping and make sure everything is plumb and no sagging and fixed properly.  Guess that's why he's the fix-it guy.

Step six:  go broke paying for door fix.

Step seven:  Hopefully have a more season-proof door.  Enjoy!

In the meantime (that "wait" thing) the temporary glass feels like the door is standing open every time we walk past.  Ever the engineer/brilliant problem solver, The Husband taped up some of our bubble wrap supply.  It's so ugly it's kind of funny.  Looking at it provokes  head shaking.  It was cheap, available and actually works just fine.  Grateful we had some old bubble wrap lying around.  Even the pink part isn't too bad.😊