I was contemplating a nap...
when Molly started barking the "intruder alert" signal...
I looked on the front porch, and there was S & helper...
ready to install the shower door/glass...!
and the shower was waiting...just as they had left it last Friday...
when the large panel & the door were the wrong size...
so they got busy, measuring & pretty soon, the frame was taking shape...
turns out the window pane they forgot...
would've had to wait for tomorrow anyway...
due to the downpour that was to come...
right when they would have installed it...
the door and other panels came in...
and were soon being dry-fit & leveled...
the side panel was dry fit, then installed...
pretty soon, my "shop steward"was supervising the gasket installation...
seen here in a close-up...
the gasket would be followed by a sealing/caulking with silicon...
around all joints, in all panels...
through it all, S.Pie, "forecat extraordinaire"...
kept her eye [& paw] in everything...
inspecting everything at least 12 times...
what a craftscat ! [some might say, pest...]
finally the door was hung & fitted...[it opens in...]
here you see the completed bench panel...
[receiving Mackie's sniff of approval...]
the completed door...
the finished right high trim/frame detail...
and the finished left high trim/frame detail...
and finally...
the completed shower door/glass...just as I imagined it...
WHOO-HOO !!!
tomorrow, if it doesn't rain, they'll do the lower sash window glass...
in the afternoon...
now all I need is hot water in the shower...
AND IT WILL BE DONE !!!
altogether now, "WHOO-HOO!"
3 comments:
That's a really pretty door - and since it opens instead of slides, no grimy track to clean! My kind of shower door.
Beautiful!!!! And worth the wait, I'd say!
...Calico...thanks...and those are exactly the reasons I stood fast in the face of escalating "sliding door hoo-haw"...that and the fact that the dirty track becomes impossible to move the door through AND it looks "tacky"...
...MM..thanks...it looks JUST like I imagined it would...
& you are "right on"...it's very much worth the wait...
and SO FAR... the kitties haven't figured out that it has a magnetic "latch"[doesn't just pop open...]
SPie may figure it out, eventually... but 'til then...
NO CATS MESSING UP MY SHOWER...
now if only I had HOT water...
that'll REALLY be worth the wait...
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