So the door to my furnace dungeon has a bit of a gap at the bottom. This is partially due to the floor sloping down a bit from left to right, but also due to the floor sloping down a bit from out to in. Since the door is a right-hand out-swing, this means that filling the gap between the door and the frame with more door is not an option, thus I instead am left to fill it with more frame.
First, the state of the world as it was: A previous owner in some far distant past had nailed down a small strip of wood over what I can only assume is the last remaining remnant of the original asbestos linoleum the house was built with. It was not a good strip of wood, and did not even remotely do the job it was intended to do.
Also it was ugly.
Truly hideous.
Anyway, it was easy enough to remove, and I grabbed a reasonably decent chunk of scrap fir 2x4 and went about carving it into the shape of a threshold. I planed down the faces, cut the length, routed the rabbet, and then glued an extra piece to the backside because I needed to make up more than an inch and a half on the tall side.
I trimmed the bottoms of the door stops and slid it in, and let me tell you it looks better already.
But I was far from done, of course. Next up was filling a few nail holes, drilling some screw holes, and painting it up with some semi-gloss latex.
A couple coats with some blow-drying in between and it was looking pretty slick.
Still fits in the doorway despite the extra thickness of the paint, so that's a bonus.
And it even fills the gap at the bottom of the door. Truly this day is blessed with miracles.
The door sure is ugly up close, but you don't notice it from a few feet away.
Finally, the last step, using up the last of a tube of caulking to fill the gaps left to allow for a little movement between the various different materials.
The gold screws on the white painted wood add an extra classy touch, I think.
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