Keeping Things Straight

A carpenter friend of ours just left our house. I wanted someone to tell me if the slanted floors and sometimes sticky doors in our house were a problem. He has deduced that at some point someone did go down into the basement and stablize things so that althought at one time they were shifting, they aren't anymore! He did say that possibly any new movement I may have noticed since we moved in 7 years ago may be attritbuted to a slight shifting of the outer walls that rest on top of ledge.
The conclusion, everything is just fine the way it is just as long as I don't mind the slight angle that exists. In his opinion it isn't going to change from the way it is right now. I'm happy with that!

Now to the next thing. Time to put in two new entry doors and two replacement windows. I can call the company who did the other replacement windows before we bought the place. That's easy. The front door is a size that is no longer made. His advice is to call this place in Freeport that custom makes doors. He said I should just have them recreate this door. It has a cool handle faceplate on it that we can transfer.


Front entry door in the middle of our repainting in June.

The back door is also odd, but still commercially available via special order. Ok, time to make some phone calls.