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This project is continued from Part 2.
With the French Door removed from the doorway, placed in a jig on it’s side to hold it securely, and the old hinges removed, I’m now ready to install the new Hager BB1279 ball bearing hinges.
The Hager hinge has square leaves, but the mortise is radiused (i.e. has rounded [...]

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This project is continued from Part 1.
To install the new hinges, the French Door will have to be removed and stood on it’s edge in the workshop. A door is a large awkward item, so I made a pair of jigs out of scrap 2×4’s and 3 inch wood screws to hold the door edgewise. [...]

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The basement patio French Doors were sagging, resulting in a torn weatherstrip on the active door and a 1/2 inch gap in between the two doors. To fix the problem I replaced the hinges with heavy duty ball bearing units made by Hagar Co. The Hager hinges feature heavy gauge metal and ball bearings that [...]

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This project is continued from Part 1.
As described at the end of Part 1, I wasn’t satisfied with the U-shaped weatherstrip, so I took the patio door back off the hinges and cut two groves (or channels) in the new door bottom to attached the original style kerf-mounted weatherstrip – a Frost King UDS36 model [...]

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The single light French Doors on the basement patio are both sagging, resulting in a torn weatherstrip on the active door and a significant gap between the doors near the center bottom. The doors are sagging because each door weighs 64.5 lbs and is a bit too heavy for the standard grade residential door hinges. [...]

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This repair is continued from Part 1.
Cracked Roof Vent Boot Flashing Repair
I called several roofing companies in my area about the cracked vent boot, but none were available due to the once in 500 year flooding rains that fell on the Atlanta metro area in September. One company said they’d received 600 calls on Monday [...]

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