Amid the PeTey repairs, laundry, house cleaning, flower bedding, and lunch (thanks mom and dad), there was some other repairs going on. I don't have before or after pictures because the demolition started while i was out working on Petey. The threshold to my french doors was badly rotting away. So we decided to try to fix that. Dad brought a replacement threshold, but it turns out that this was height dimension was too big. Since i don't have a lot of wood working tools (perhaps i should've asked melissa wallace?) we couldn't plane away the material to make it fit.
So, off we go to Home Depot...turns out that even though the particular threshold i have is quite common, Home Depot doesn't carry it, nor does Lowes. Since i had a nice gap where the old threshold used to be, we had to do something to prevent the weather from getting in. After comparing the old threshold to something that might work, we decided to give it a try.
Got home and started drilling the necessary holes in the concrete so that we can secure the threshold. This is where the title of this blog comes in...concrete is hard. I wasn't able to get very far (must've hit some large stones or something...). We decided to try a bigger masonry bit that i had to see if the masonry bit that i had was defective or not...Well, the bigger bit was able to chew down a little more, but not much more. I didn't have the right tools to do the job. But, thanks to Josh (it must be borrow Josh's things weekend?) we were able to get the 6 holes drilled that we needed to drill. Thanks Josh. However, it took me 3 masonry drill bits to do it...the first two melted on me...that concrete just ate up those bits. Concrete is HARD.
Well, we got the thresholds in, but we'll need to do some additional dimensional changes to make it all work smoothly. But for now it works.
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It's probable that Lowes & Home Depot carry the item you were looking for but I have found this weekend what ever you need they are going to be out of it. That doesn't only apply to home improvement stores - I went to the freaking grocery store to get some bagels for breakfast this week and they were all out...all out! Grr!
sounds like you had a lot to do around the house!!! hope you treated yourself to a cold beer and whatever you wanted to do after that??? isn't all work and no play what makes todd a grumpy boy???????
I don't really have a good idea of what you are talking about here. it's not really in my relm of things I think about.
hehhehe
-M
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