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Installing an Impact-Resistant Front Door
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Installing an Impact-Resistant Front Door
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" The interior of the house is really almost completed with drywall up. Paint finish is not back the front doors and I can't open it has it it swings in such a way that it opens out but anyway. Jesse Gonzales our contractor was here the other day to tell -- know about it. Okay -- Jesse now we're looking at the front door and it's oversized. Correctness is not read about eight foot. Entry door with a bombing plot line with a woman -- to take a look at the sidelight a minute. Is all the windows and all the glass in this house is impact resistant correct this is also this involves an impact hot hot. Dad it's having candidate with stories that are metal or wood door what is -- apartment. Okay so the first thing he's done is to put down a thick bead of -- caulking correct. And you guys always. Pour your slabs so that you have this kind of a lip there yes we do we also use an oversize sill we use an inch and three quarters sill to keep out of water and it. All right and it's aluminum correct. So what's he doing now over here right now -- into the sidelight and the door together. The interesting thing about this door though aside from office other features is the fact that it swings out correct it is an out swing door. And this is something that's being done primarily from the point of view of hurricane winds is you have an out swinging door. Obviously when it's closed it's butting against a rabbit against an edge against a door stop. As well as the bottom left of threshold. So nothing's gonna blow that in."
" So it's a nice front door and as you can see most of the finishes are. Very much complete inside -- all the air conditioning hasn't been stolen it and we're building in about 95 degree temperatures -- here -- Florida -- this is the entrance to the master suite eight foot doors throughout the area. Again finishes end here are. Sleet and this room that I think is twelve by 68 with the big slider looking across the pool onto the the openings. And can now doubt the rough electrical work was just going into last week and so we took a peek at how. They couple these plastic boxes with the metal studs just watch."
