The goofball contractor who built my shop ordered 45/8" pre-framed doors for it....my walls are 6". Then the amish crew building it installed them without a second thought...I didn't even notice until everyone had packed up and left. Since then I've fumed about this. not that they didn't work but more because I like things to be done correctly. So I was planning to remove the doors, add a 6/916" threshold and pad out the frame to fit the walls. I'm able to find the thresholds, but the prices are ridiculous....in some cases $150 (just the threshold). Then I was perusing the Menards site and stumbled across a kit that provides the parts needed to widen the door to fit. This is 3 pieces of lumber and a snap on threshold extension...for $26! This kit does pretty much what I planned...but the snap on extension is what made it (to me) worth it. Didn't even know such things existed.....must be other folks with the same problem.

Nice. I have seen that done before and amazed they just installed and thought nothing of it.

Glad to hear that.  Sounds like a good plan.

Please post up a before and after shot Fred when you have completed the project.

Will do!

I’m not on the Amish carpentry bandwagon.  I’ve seen too many shoddy jobs.

I have used a similar kit that the BORG sells for their exterior doors - Feather River, I think.  I don't know if they are brand specific because of the locking joint at the metal threshold, and I don't recall the price.  Sure makes it nice for the door to swing the full 180⁰.  

16 hours ago, Ron Dudelston said:

I’m not on the Amish carpentry bandwagon.  I’ve seen too many shoddy jobs.

No internet or TV, work only with their brothers, so they remain old school and their buildings show it.  Don't keep up with the latest building materials.

I don't agree or disagree with anything said about the Amish construction skills, this is the only thing I've had done that an Amish crew did. But my door problem wasn't their doing. The general contractor is the one who ordered the wrong doors (maybe on purpose to save money; or he just didn't care, or he didn't know the difference, or all the above) and the Amish just built the place using what he provided. I did notice that as I examined my doors for removal, they nailed the thing in through the brickmould...I've not seen that before and it makes things more complicated removing the door frame. It also seems they may have been paid by the nail, given the number of them they used....not only in the door but pretty much everywhere else.

I wanted to come to this and report back on the kit I bought. I've got my doors done, and to my chagrin (at first) the aluminum snap in extensions wouldn't fit my thresholds. I was certain my doors were Mastercraft and it turns out they were not. The materials the builder had delivered came from 2 sources, and Menards was one of them...I was sure I saw the doors in that pile....guess I was wrong. Anyway, I didn't figure all this out until I had the first door out of the frame and and the brickmold pulled off. Then the extensions wouldn't work. So with the door out, and no chance of finding a correct threshold locally I went ahead  and installed the wooden parts to widen the jambs and used the threshold I had. The whole process took less than 1/2 hour, and then I reinstalled the door. To m delight, I prefer the way it turned out. The threshold now comes even with the main slab, and the doors are flush to the inside walls. So, I paid extra for the parts I didn't use (the extensions) but the wooden pieces made up for it...they were pre notched at the top for the cross piece, and the bottoms were taper cut to fit the threshold (that I didn't use). So it's a mixed bag, but the job is done and I'm happy. I talked to a Menard millwork guy about all this and he said those kits are in stock just so they don't have to stock doors fro 6" walls. They can and do special order doors for 6" walls, but a lot of folks don't want to wait. In that case these folks can buy a 4" door and the kit and have their 6" door with a little work. I would imagine there is one made for the doors I have...but I'm good with the ways things turned out. Pic of the door bottom below. BTW, the white smudges are painters caulk filling nail holes I have to paint over yet.

 

Edited June 9, 20206 yr by Fred W. Hargis Jr

Looks fine to me.  Nice work.

Came out good. As with any project always a hiccup.

Great job, Fred.  The only thing that I would do differently would be to seal the bottom of the wood.  It will wick up the moisture from the rain or sprinkler water on that concrete and shorten the life.  Either a roofing cement or silicone caulk, which I hate, but just something to seal it.  

I actually did seal the bottom of those jambs (I guess) but I used an oil based primer followed by 2 coats of the acrylic exterior paint.