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aemeijers

wrote:
I just installed a pre-hung exterior door with weather stripping. It
went fairly well until I went to install the strike plate on the door
jamb. I enlarged the pre-cut 'hole' with a chisel to accomodate the
hardware that I bought. Unfortunately a crack opened vertically along
the latch side of the jamb. The (long) crack is near the edge of the
jamb.

Does anyone have any advice on how to solve this? Do I have to saw
out all the nails/shims, remove the door, remove the latch side jamb
and try to pound in a replacement side? If I try this, should I
anticipate problems with the weatherstripping?

Thanks,
Tim

Don't ya hate it when stuff like that happens? Almost done with a
project, and then oops? (That is one reason Norm keeps harping on
keeping wood chisels razor-sharp. You barely need to tap them with the
hammer to cut into soft woods like a door jamb. Or did chisel get stuck,
and you put sideways pressure on it to get it out?)

Before ripping the door out, I'd try some epoxy in the crack, along with
a couple of deeply countersunk LONG skinny screws through the face of
the brick mold, edge ways through the jamb, positioned to miss the
striker holes. You can plug the screw holes with little pieces of dowel.

Yeah, it'll be tedious work, and require some very careful aiming, and
some artistic spot refinishing. But it falls into the 'nothing to lose'
category.

aem sends...