J. and my father-in-law installed a Larson Classic Elegance 36"storm door in white with brass trim. It features a full-size removeable screen, which we can replace with full glass in the winter. Whether or not we'll actually swap them remains to be seen. We tried the swap once before the door was installed, and it's definitely a short straw job.
We still have a few things to complete. The doorbell doesn't sit correctly with the frame of the new door, so we'll replace that. There's some trim pieces to snap into place and the door closer too install too. And the strike plate for the lock will be installed, too, but we're waiting on a replacement for the "latch side Z-bar", which is the thing that you mount to the door frame so that the door will latch shut. At the moment, the holes for the latch don't line up with the latch on the door. I suspect that J. and his dad made a nonreversable error in cutting that piece from their sheepish behavior, but we're allowing the smokescreen of "I think the company sent us the wrong piece." And I still need to paint the front door white to match the storm door. After that, we'll call it good.
And that makes, oh, four months between purchase of door and (near) complete installation? New rule: thou shalt not purchase renovation supplies without solid plan for installation.
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Meanwhile, on the other storm (the sliding door that leads to the back yard), we appear to have a little interspecies buggy lovin'.
It's also possible that this little beetle crawled up there thinking it was meeting its maker, the Great Big Bug in the Sky, because it died shortly afterwards.
I wouldn't feel too sorry for it, though. Its friends are busy skeletalizing the cannas.
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