I am digging up some ol pics now, well not that old, but this was taken about a year and a half ago. I needed a better place to put my door installation tools. I was using the super cab portion of my truck to put my jigs, compressor, and other tools in. The rear started to get tore up a bit so I decided to build a box for my truck. It worked very well, I got to use if for about a year until the residential door business dried up. I have installed doors for the last 15 or so years on the weekends and after hours besides my day job until the work dried up and now there is nothing. I loved installing doors, the satisfaction of installing a nice door, specially front entry doors, was always enjoyable to me. I always equated it to putting new wheels on a car, like doors, the wheels set off the car. As in homes, new windows and doors can make a regular home look spectacular. I didn't do windows, I installed doors only, and it was nice to drive off and look back at a custom door installed precisely, and with a perfect fit.

It's a long bed PU, so the box was made at 8'. The tail gate when closed kept things from sliding around. The box was mounted to the bed with 3 sheet metal screws at the rear. Not much needed to secure it.

Thanks for looking,

 

Completed box, came with kids and all!

Some of the tools in place, still had about 300 pound of tools and hardware to load in still, but this is what I got in the first day.

A place for everything

More tools

It was a fun gig while it lasted, after about 15 years of hoisting doors solo, I think it was a blessing in disguise that the business dried up for me, my back was starting to take a hit, and the family was missing me on the weekends. Now I stay home, build chairs when I can, and hopefully sell some. I am in my shop now, my boy comes out to the bench and sets up his plastic tools and works by my side, and my older girls can come out and ask dad for some help with home work, and LOML can go places on the weekends with out kids in tow all the time, and she can hang out with me when I am working out in the shop. I use to pray for work on the weekends, but how does that country song go? "Sometimes Gods greatest gifts, are un-answered prayers"

Take care folks

 

John1.  Door guy huh?  OK, how should this be "fixed?"

Larry

 

 

 

If you were my customer Larry, I'd tell you I need to replace the entire door assembly, door included. The reason being, it is a prehung steel door system. I might be hard pressed to find a jamb to replace your damaged jamb that would be a duplicate of what you have existing. Because factory pre hungs don't always use standard materials available at your local home center. then I'd be milling a jamb out for you, labor cost, then installing the jamb, more labor cost, then dinking around with the door for the perfect fit before I left your home. Your talking a days labor after is all said and done. I charge 320 a day labor where I live. Plus materials your up to about 400 for replacing a jamb. We can buy a brand new prehung steel door for 275 and 180 labor to install it. So we are up to 455 to install a brand new door system in your home. Or, 400 for replacing a jamb.

Now, if I were you, and knowing your an excellent carpenter. Take measurements of the jamb, see if you can find a replacement at a home center, and replace it. If you can't find a replacement, purchase a 2x6 and mill out your own jamb to the exact specs of the existing and replace it, don't even try to cut and block it and patch. It would look awe full and not last as long. If your existing threshold is fine, leave it in place, you have a steel door, if you buy a new threshold, it wont fit, and cutting the bottom of a steel door is un-necessary if you don't have to. While your down there, I would replace the weather seal at the bottom of your door. Anytime you do a replacement like we are talking, the old seal just doesn't fit right no matter how careful you are.

If you need more details, if you were looking for exact instructions on how to replace your jamb, let me know, and I'll walk through it with you!

 

After all that, do you know why it did what it did?

Yes I do.  Two reasons.  One, they didn't use a treated brick molding when they built our house in 1995.

Two, it's right in a "valley drain" path.  I need a "divereter" in the valley above.

Thanks for the education.  I think I'm going to try and replace the lower part of the right side jamb withn a custom milled, treated piece.  Just don't have the funds needed to do what you talked about.

Larry

 

 

That might be the easiest "for now" fix Larry, and it will last a couple years or it might last forever. But if your skills are accommodating for such a task, I would probably replace the entire jamb, a 2x6 cost about 15 bucks, and that's about all your in for cost wise. But if replacing the entire jamb leg seems a little daunting, I don't blame you, heck, I don't even like to do that, sometimes it gets tricky. A patch like your talking may work for awhile, and like I said, it may hold for ever. But whatever you do, I know I don't need to tell you, that drain problem needs to get fixed before next rain season, if I was nearby I'd come on over and take care of that jamb leg for ya. But I aint, and it's a long drive.

Larry Jenkins said:

Yes I do.  Two reasons.  One, they didn't use a treated brick molding when they built our house in 1995.

Two, it's right in a "valley drain" path.  I need a "divereter" in the valley above.

Thanks for the education.  I think I'm going to try and replace the lower part of the right side jamb withn a custom milled, treated piece.  Just don't have the funds needed to do what you talked about.

Larry

 

 

Thanks John1.. 

I'm hesitant to replace the whole right side jamb because it has a door stop that has a rubber gasket on the inside of the stop that's in pretty good shape, so I'm thinking of just making a special pice the would replace the outside of the lower jamb as shown in the images.

Hope this makes some sense.

Larry