Learn From My Fail: the Distance Between

I guess this is a milestone, the sharing of our first SLA LFMF.

The front door is a half-inch too low to not scrape against the entryway tile as it opens and closes! It never occurred to me to consider the distance between the subfloor and the bottom of the front door when choosing flooring.

Now it is too late to switch to a thinner, resilient flooring. Most of the tile is already glued down.

What choice do we have now but to get our front door raised? The door itself is metal with foam core, so we cannot shave it shorter, to allow it to pass over the tile. Perhaps buying a wood door to shave down would be the cheaper option...if one of us took the time off work today to shop for a wood door.

Tom the husband is going over this morning to see the situation for himself. Our contractor says lifting the door should take half a day of work.

More as the story unfolds.

THE UNFOLDING: It turned out that it was not so great a problem as I feared. The workmen lifted the door, and also leveled it, using shims underneath. Turns out the door had not been made level when it was installed. But it is all fixed now.

And who am I kidding? Half this blog is LFMFs.