!!!! SEPP to Boot: Stephen's Experience (BEL)

It was only a couple of years before this newest hinge that we trimmed 1/2" off the bottom of the door. I don't know if the post keeps settling,  or what. I think the door is on it's fourth hinge version.  Sometimes the door started sticking because the hinges failed. Sometimes,  it did seem to stick worse in winter and spring than it did in summer. But, whether it is the door, or the post, or all of the frame, I couldn't say what was swelling the most.

The back door doesn't have so many problems.  It is slightly smaller AND it swings mostly over air. If I had foreseen this problem, I would have made the cob floor at least an inch lower. I guess we thought that it would be too awkward with that much of a step over the threshold.

Mark Brunnr wrote:Hmm, any chance the door was sticking due to the hinges pulling away from the frame/wall, or perhaps just swelling of the door due to spring humidity? If it's the latter, would a yearly coating of linseed oil or equivalent possibly help?

 
Another reason that our family has experienced is that green logs will shrink slightly and dried lumber in the door will not.  Although that resulted in sticking both top, bottom and at the latch.

BRK #556

I think it was sometime this weekend that marked me living in Montana for two years. I'm glad I made the jump here.



And we bid a fond farewell to Trace, a Boot with us for these past three weeks. We celebrated his next adventure earlier this evening with pizza from scratch, plus board games afterward. Thanks for being here, man! Safe travels!

Here are a couple events from this past weekend in Missoula. It was opening weekend for the Missoula Farmer's Market. Here's one corner, at the start of the river bike path:



It also happened to be the Garden City Brewfest. I particularly appreciate the friendly staff guy waving in this GIF.



Finally: back at Basecamp, I almost finished my current wooden signs project! I'll wrap these up prior to shuteye this evening, I'm sure of it.



That's all for now. Thanks for reading, and enjoy your day...!

Stephen B. Thomas wrote:As for linseed oil, that's a new idea. The door-sticking problem started perhaps back in December (only now have we had the Boots to handle the project), and I don't think humidity tends to linger long at all round here.

I think the same problem developed for Julia last year over the same time period before JR put the new hinges on just about this time. Is it known what it would take to skim a bit off the cob floor and refinish it just in the area of the sweep?

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A busy and blustery Monday. The chill is still trying to hang on with its cold, clammy claws. Begone, says I!!!

Meanwhile, we did some maintenance and touch-ups over at the Tipi and the Gregorian Woodshed. I forgot to grab my monthly-update photo of the Woodshed for the start of May, but there are a few snapshots of the Tipi's interior. We checked the rocket mass heater in there and all seems to be working well. We also came up with a list of things to-do before our next SEPPer comes in to stay there in a couple weeks, plus felled a few trees for firewood and cleared-out a bunch of branches and the like for a brushpile.







In the afternoon, we stayed at Basecamp and cleared things around the dehydrators - I'm being interviewed later this week about our solar and rocket-powered dehydrators so we gave the grasses and other plants in the area a bit of a trim. We're on the lookout for seed pods on all our rhubarb plants, like this little offender here, who was later sliced off. We'd like tastier rhubarb shoots, thanks...!



Finally: it was moving day for this little friend. I dropped it off under the rocket-boosted dehydrator and then shared a few links to real-estate apps for it to peruse.



...Plus I found myself researching and learning about the hard-boiled detective mystery novel genre this evening before dinner. I wonder what that was all about...?

That's all for now. Thanks for reading, and enjoy your day...!