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Pocketless Door Experiment (2 of 3) :: Hardware
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Now it's not like I haven't seen them. Essentially, a pocketless door is a pocket door without a pocket. While a pocket door in tucked back and hidden in the wall framing, a pocketless door, on the other hand, is hung on a track from the ceiling or mounted to a wall. In this configuration, they are also sometimes known as barn doors.
The hardware you find at the home center for this installation is not that different from what you find for sliding closet doors. Most closet doors are paired, hence, two tracks and two sets of rollers. With the product that I bought, a Pocket Sliding Door Assembly, it allows for an along the wall installation. [ . . . ]
Pocketless Door Experiment (1 of 3) :: the backstory — Design & Process
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I end up getting a lot of questions about this: "How did you learn to do home improvement?" And more often than not, my answer starts with. . . "Well, long story. . . ."
First off, I really have never learned how to do home improvement; I am certainly not a tradesman. I mean, I think even for those highly specialized professionals out there, do you really ever fully learn how to do anything? Home improvement, like everything else, is an ongoing process of building knowledge and learning. (Notice the present participle.) [ . . . ]
Installing Underlayment for Carpet in a Hurry: How (Not) To
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I mixed my leveler, poured it exactly as I wanted (using scrap pressure treated lumber as a screed at the edges), and it was done. I just had to wait. I got busy doing a few other things: finished the connections on the pedestal sink, removed some glazing from a window pane, and replaced a piece of broken glass. I did some work to get ready for the reassembly of my heating system. All the while . . . checking the progress of my leveler.
The leveler didn't seem to be drying quite as quickly as I would have hoped. I mean, it couldn't have been that I mixed it too thin. I am usually pretty exacting with that. It must have been that it was so cold (that area, a converted porch is exposed underneath) and, well, there was no heat on to help it dry. [ . . . ]
Building a Chase for Split System Air Conditioner Lines
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. . . Use the Sawzall to cut out the 2x4 that blocks our path. This is the same technique framers use when framing a doorway in a new wall. I want you to cut out the section of 2x4 that appears between the 2 studs in our line pocket (Step 6). It should essentially be a 4 length of 2x4. With that, Mike will have an unobstructed path in our framing. You are cutting out a portion of bottom rung in the ladder you just built, and a portion of the top plate in the knee wall that is already there. You can do this and get away with it because the 2nd interior 2x4 in the pocket is now providing some structure. Later, we will come back and put another 2x4 with construction adhesive in the knee wall before we patch the drywall on the Anne Street side (step 3). This is the quickest way to pull this off - and trust me, this step will make you feel like a real construction dude. [ . . . ]
