Installing a glass insert into your door is simple and does not call for something more than a good jigsaw, a drill, 5/eight drill bit, a tape measure and or square ruler, caulk, pencil and screw driver. You can shim the door square as necessary, then apply a bead of clear silicone involving the outside metal and the wall, in order to seal the door frame from further water leaking, then set the screws by way of the jamb behind the weather stripping. When framing a pre-hung door, the common is to make the rough opening two inches wider and two inches higher than the size of the door.

When you have the new prehung door on hand, look for the screws that hold the old door in: at times they are situated behind the climate stripping where the door meets the frame, you also may well have to eliminate the thirty or so screws from the exterior frame, normally concealed behind a plastic moulding. The similar would apply to bi-fold doors that have a wood frame about the inside of the opening. The door shown right here is a fiber glass door I picked up at my local lumber … Read the rest