We had a wedding to attend up in Northern NH so most of the weekend was spent up there however we made it back home at a reasonable hour Sunday and since our new door had arrived (we picked it up friday night) we decided to start finishing it.

First came the unpacking – the door was supposed to come with no casing on it – however it came with some small casing that we then had to remove. We were not happy about this but it would take a couple weeks to get another door and taking the casing off wasn’t that hard.

Then we had to get the door out of the frame for finishing which was tough, the door frame has a sidelight so this is a little larger than our last door. Finally the door was free and we got down to sanding it.

A few sore fingers and backs later we had a door prepped and ready to stain. There was no way we were also prepping the sidelight and frame today but I think schedule wise that’s okay, I can finish “finishing” it after it’s installed – I’d like to have the door on it’s hinges though so it needs to be finished first.

Finally I got a coat of stain on the first side:

new front door - just got stained

Time for a quick game of starcraft 2 and then I’ll stain the other side. Tomorrow I can start the urethane procedure, one coat on one side each night. By Sunday it should be done 🙂