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the jamb legs are 1” longer than the door.

Does this sound right? Install the prehung door first, then run the tile halfway under the door and use a transition strip to go from tile to the present plywood (and eventual laminate). I don’t have a doorstep - would a doorstep be better and run the tile up to the doorstep instead?

I like tile. And I have 3 young boys and tile is easier to clean up after “misses.”

The door will swing out over the hallway floor which will eventually have laminate flooring. The room we built for the compost toilet is about 4’ x 5’ and when we sell the cabin, it will be considered a closet rather than a bathroom, since we have no plan to ever install running water here. I...

We have a dry cabin (no running water). We have an outhouse but are putting in a closet-sized room for a compost toilet inside the cabin. We have it framed and dry walled, but I’m not sure the next steps we should take. We wanted to put tile flooring and already have a door, but what order do we...

I impulsively painted a herringbone pattern on doors that will be hung in a basement living room/no conforming guest room. I used paint leftover from a dozen different projects around the house, different brands, colors, finishes, etc. They are all interior latex paint (the SW ProClassic is...

The board behind it is actually the one that needs to be removed.

Do you mean the white board just below the door and behind the stairs? That was screwed in before the stairs were poured because we can see the screws behind the stairs so that'll be fun.

The piece in question runs from corner to corner, left to right, along the exterior wall at a level immediately below the floor. There's no subfloor or anything here.

I don't know if it's just because it's late but I didn't 100% understand what you meant on how to replace the board. It must be late because it seems like figuring out how to do it should be the easy part and actually getting it done another story...

Yeah...super easy... Easy. That's what we thought this job of replacing a storm door would be. Should've known better!

I would assume the roof was there first but couldn't say for sure. The roof ends at that wall-no gable or anything else.

Yikes I was hoping for a different answer! How would I go about replacing it? I think I'd need to add temporary supports/jacks because I'd have to remove all of the supports on top of the center support post to access this board in its entirety. Yeah? Is this still diy-able?

It is the one that looks to be in the middle. The other two boards only go between the support posts on either side of the door and don't run the full width of the porch.

It's going to be a real pain to try and remove that rotted board because of where it's located and because the runs the full width of the house. The rot seems to be concentrated between two support posts which are on either side of the door. I'm wondering if I could cut out the floorboards...

Haha-the wood is so badly rotted my 2 year old helped dig it out with his toy tools. "It's not hard!" he says.

From the outside showing the floorboards cut and all the wet rot removed: Inside the crawl space. What I thought was a 4x4 from the outside is actually a 2x8 or 2x10 and a 2x a couple inches shorter, one in front of the other. The wider board (looks like it's on the bottom but is just wider...

Crap. Decided to remove the rotted floorboards to replace with new wood. Good news-the rot in the floorboards appears to stop at the threshold and doesn't continue into the porch. And the boards on both sides of that section are also in good shape. Bad news-the rot under the floorboards is...

I also saw this. Not sure if this would be useful?

I liked the video you linked. It was very thorough and taught me something new about dissimilar metals. Is this the type of flashing I need? It seems pretty straightforward, I'm just not sure the best way to install it here.