{"id":333,"date":"2008-10-05T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/?p=333"},"modified":"2008-10-05T19:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T19:42:00","slug":"front-door-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/2008\/10\/front-door-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Door – 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m working on the front door. It gets a lot of abuse from the sun. After a while the polyurethane disappears (where does it go?) and the door needs to be stained and repainted with polyurethane. So today was the day. Over a month ago I bought the polyurethane, but the weather was too hot to use it. I had to wait until cooler times because the front door had to be removed and the house would be open to the elements. This morning I went to Home Depot and bought wood strips and a small drop-cloth. I removed the door and brought it into the garage to work on it. I sealed up the open doorway to keep people, pets, and pests out with the wood strips and drop-cloth.

<\/center>Next back in the garage I sanded the entire door with my power sander, and then hand sanded it too. Katie came out with a drink of water and then helped me with the first staining. I applied the red-oak stain with a brush and she rubbed it off with clean cloths.
<\/center>I let it dry for 5 hours before putting on the second coat. I’m worried that we’re not going to get this done today and it’ll extend into tomorrow – with a hole in the front of our house. While waiting I painstakingly cleaned off the brass kick-plate, door handle, and lock surround to remove all the lacquer on them.
<\/center>This should allow them to patina naturally and allow them to be cleaned easier in the future. After 5 hours it was dark out and I applied one more coat of stain. It was too late to start polyurethaning so Katie and I rehung the front door. More to follow…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m working on the front door. It gets a lot of abuse from the sun. After a while the polyurethane disappears (where does it go?) and the door needs to be stained and repainted with polyurethane. So today was the day. Over a month ago I bought the polyurethane, but the weather was too hot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}