Installing storm door into unusual door jamb setup
Hey everyone, looking to put a storm door into unusual to this weird setup. The typical door jamb is very small, but there’s another piece of painted wood trim that covers up some brick that is mostly flush with the door jamb. In addition the form stone covering that sheet of trim runs over it with no decorative trim on the outside. In addition, the total width from the door jamb to the end of the wood trim piece is over 8 inches. So my question is how the heck I should attach a storm door into this? I can’t find any videos on the internet that show this kind of setup, in fact most are cookie cutter videos that don’t seem all that different from the included instructions with every new door. So, should I: 1) build a frame on the inside of this door jamb to attach a slightly smaller length x width storm door too? This would likely need to be custom since my door opening is already on the small side. Where should I put this frame if I do this? Towards the outside closest to form stone so it open out all the way? 2) should I take out the trim between the end of door jamb and the form stone and try install to original door jamb and just find a way to cover brick up after door is installed? 3) something else entirely? 4) I’m screwed and there’s not a good way to make this work. My girlfriend and I want a good way to leave the door open to let air in without our cats being able to run out. We’ve been using one of those magnet screen blind things but they recently figured out they can walk right through them lol Any help would be appreciated!! submitted by /u/YaBestFriendJoseph [link] [comments]
| | Hey everyone, looking to put a storm door into unusual to this weird setup. The typical door jamb is very small, but there’s another piece of painted wood trim that covers up some brick that is mostly flush with the door jamb. In addition the form stone covering that sheet of trim runs over it with no decorative trim on the outside. In addition, the total width from the door jamb to the end of the wood trim piece is over 8 inches. So my question is how the heck I should attach a storm door into this? I can’t find any videos on the internet that show this kind of setup, in fact most are cookie cutter videos that don’t seem all that different from the included instructions with every new door. So, should I: 1) build a frame on the inside of this door jamb to attach a slightly smaller length x width storm door too? This would likely need to be custom since my door opening is already on the small side. Where should I put this frame if I do this? Towards the outside closest to form stone so it open out all the way? 2) should I take out the trim between the end of door jamb and the form stone and try install to original door jamb and just find a way to cover brick up after door is installed? 3) something else entirely? 4) I’m screwed and there’s not a good way to make this work. My girlfriend and I want a good way to leave the door open to let air in without our cats being able to run out. We’ve been using one of those magnet screen blind things but they recently figured out they can walk right through them lol Any help would be appreciated!! [link] [comments] |
