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Installing a Pocket Door
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" You know our little cracker style house is very nicely designed. Both from the outside and the in. Our living room is very nicely proportioned. That front porch is gonna be beautiful once we put an entry way through it, and the dining room is a nice sight. But the other day, Andrea, the architect pointed out that this door way is in on an unfortunate location because it looks directly into the bathroom and you could be sitting in the dining room table then, but your view wouldn't be the best. So, our friends Al and Steve, his son are already working on the solution to that problem. We're gonna move the doorway over to the left, right?"
" Right, exactly."
" And how do we do it?"
" What was done, I brought the KD door, knocked down and----"
" A knocked door frame."
" Right. It's very simple. You put together just the head piece and the side piece."
" And this of course is a pocket for the frame, so that we can have a sliding door----"
" Right."
" that goes right into this pocket, which will be hidden in the wall."
" Into the wall frame."
" What are we using for a door?"
" Where gonna go from here to here and this will be the door that will be fit in to the pocket."
" Oh, Al----"
" This door will stand here."
" Really."
" We found this up in the attic. "
" Yeah. It's kind of theme better day. Do you think it will clean up?"
" Sure, it'll be great."
" Yeah."
" It cost a lot of money to make one."
" Yeah and it matches the door in the house."
" Exact---- right."
" And it's a good, harm solid wood. Okay, so you're in the process of----"
" Marking this out."
" Reframing it."
" Right."
" Now, we're about ready to take and knocked these sides out. We're gonna take this arch---- this, this, and this."
" And we're gonna put a stud jack in here."
" And then we're gonna put a jack both on that sides."
" Right."
" We're gonna leave this intact."
" Okay."
" So, we don't disturb that side."
" Okay, alright."
" And we're gonna put our 2 X 10 header up there and a stud jack and we're set."
" Yeah, it's a lot of work."
" Sounds easy to you. Now, let's watch."
" Okay."
" Steve, why don't you cut this and I'll let this set down on that feet down."
" I'm not free-styling."
" Alright, you want a vertical saw for that horizontal cut."
" There you go. Watch out, Al's busy there."
" You can set that out with Steve."
" Yup."
" Alright, fellows. While you've been fishing all that demolition, I got tip to clean up that door for us. What do you think?"
" Looks good."
" Great."
" Yeah."
" Super."
" Alright."
" That's fine."
" So, are you ready to reframe it?"
" We're just getting ready to frame it right now."
" Okay."
" Okay, Steve, you'll get that ready."
" Yes, I'm getting ready in here."
" So that would be a jack, is that right?"
" This is a jack."
" Now, with the header up here is placed carrying the weight of the ceiling joint, we're ready to put in the new door frame, right?"
" Right. Got you, we're ready to put it in now."
" And it's a light weight up there."
" Yup."
" Once you've got it in place that would be pretty solid."
" We need you to level over there."
" Now, we've already plumb up this side."
" You plumb it up?"
" Yup. We'll get that."
" This door has to be flushed with your 2 by----"
" It's nice that you're driving the screws into that new 2 X 4, I suppose to that real hard yellow pine."
" Now the same thing on the other side?"
" We'll square this up here. It makes a different square."
" That's important, isn't it?"
" That's the universal shin technique."
" Okay. Well, it seems nobody got into this [unk]"
" I need about 3/8 of an inch."
" Looks pretty good."
" Now, why are you using your common headed nail on finished top?"
" The headed nail is gonna hole a lot better than a Chinese nail would."
" Hey, I forgot?"
" [unk] gonna tremble it anyway."
" It will be covered?"
" Yes."
" I'll do my part right here."
" Now, you're gonna put this nail down here over this."
" Well, Steve and Al can we just try the door, so we could [unk]"
" Try the door and see how it works."
" That's kind of the idea, but we can't really hang it up until after we've put the drive on, right?"
" Right."
" Okay, so that will be another week."