Interior Doors

We have most of the interior doors installed. The door to the study has been integrated into the wall, and I applied joint compound (which is still wet in the photo left). Above this door is a ‘book case’ that will be used primarily for baskets and pots. It will be lighted with a strip of LEDs. The door from the garage must be fire rated (20 minutes) and will be lockable. The photo (right) shows this door installed, but not yet integrated into the wall, which contains the electric panel behind black paper. All doors are two-panel, arch top style.Most of the doors are in thick walls (11” or so), so the plaster wraps around the edge of the door opening using bullnose corner bead. However the bathroom door, which is in a ‘normal’ 4 1/2” thick wall, doesn’t allow room for wrapping the plaster around the door, so we will trim the door with a frame. This will be simpler. The bathroom opens into the laundry hall, which has bifold doors, and is visually separate from the rest of the house interior by pocket doors, which require different edge treatment. So the different treatment of the bathroom opening should not jar the eye.

Over the long weekend I applied wallboard mud (drywall joint compound) in the mechanical room. The room is on the roof and gets hot in the afternoon, so I work in the morning (mostly). The light is not good and it is hard to prop the door open, so we use a 500 Watt work light, which makes the room really hot. Because of a wide shelf, part of the ceiling height is about four feet, meaning I climb onto a 3' shelf and work on my knees.

This afternoon I met with the landscaper. We discussed drainage, both adjacent to the house and in general from the roof drains front and back. I have a large amount of dirt to distribute. We had several berms planned, but the amount of dirt piled around the house is more than she planned. We also discussed using all the rock that I have separated.

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