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Relocating the Front Door
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Relocating the Front Door
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" Simple old houses like this very often have a front door. That opens right directly into the living room and when you have that obviously half of the year with cold weather it's impossible to keep the cold draft out so one of the architect's solutions here is to. Move this doorway. Over to the side and frame in a proper for. Let's go it. Then you're making the cuts just with a regular circular saw -- this is -- balloon frame situation right right that means the studs go all the way from the bottom players still. All the way up. Past the first floor essentially and then the second floor is hung off of them exactly. That makes a difference to us because we can't get a king stud in. The same way that they did when they originally framed the house right so we're gonna put our header from this king stud. All the way to the outside wolf and right and that way or we have to do -- put in -- where we want the toward me."
" Right and Charlie -- he's here Charlie I think it was a window here at one point one time part of a fifty is assault on the dinner vision and they had a window and we're about to think that I have to get on -- all right so the next step is since the user full dimensional studs. You've made the first countless circular saw and now you're ready to cut through the rest of it was. Reciprocating saw right OK go."
" All right so the new header is actually 22 by tens. They're sandwiched on a regular piece of one -- three quarter inch stock in this gives you the full dimension. Of the studs that were there. Now the weight of the upper area that was being carried by those studs is being transferred via the header. This stud and to the corner. And so we can remove what's underneath it but first you want to cut out any nails. Between the sheathing and the studs. Post that's coming up we're getting them. There are."
" So now we're putting up new Jack studs to support the header for the door. We just tack them in place and then checked for -- Now we can nail this Jack stud and add another on the other side. With the new header and Jack studs tacked in position we can nail the sheathing to the new studs from the outside. Then we'll be ready to cut the sheathing to create the new opening. We've marked off the edge of our Jack studs. On the outside on the sheathing. And snapped a line to guide our cut. Once we remove all of the sheeting will be ready to remove the door frame into its new location. No case of the door. Well temporarily stay and niceties. Existing frame goes in over here. In the door will go right back in."
