Carolina Craftsman kit Rural Post Office.

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How would it look if I just cut the frame off the plastic door, set the door in the opening and placed the screen door on the wall?

I turned the plastic door up side down and using a new #11 blade, cut off the plastic frame from the rear.

I got a little careless with the door frame cutting in the next photo. Not to worry, it won't show.



In the next photo, you can see the door is now set in between the wall and flush.



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I also forgot that between all the other stuff, I applied the second coat of white to the board and batten walls. It's okay but I think this method works best on clapboard walls.





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Here's a photo of the recessed plastic door without the frame and with the screen door on the wall.

This is a much better look for the building and the screen door is now flush with the wall.




I took some screen material and brushed on some Hunterline Light Gray and when dry added some Hunterline Medium Brown.





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While the A&I was drying, I built the 2x2 frame around the double screen doors. These will fit over the double doors on the store portion of the structure.





Nice and flush against the wall.

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I glued the double door in and let it dry.



I glued the single screen door frame to the screen material and when dry cut the screen around the outside edge of the door frame.





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I then stained and painted the double screen doors and added Canopy Glue to the windows and doors. These were all set off to the side to dry until tomorrow.

Then I was looking at the front and rear walls and thought I'd add some exterior rafters. The original photo doesn't show any.

When these old buildings were built, the use of exterior rafters was an extra expense. The roof boards, probably 1 X's were just nailed perpendicular to the top of the interior rafters and extended out a foot to 18 inches.

This country store and post office needs exterior rafters.   I used scale 2x6's for the rafters.






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Front wall -



Rear wall -



Done for this fine day.

[jlgrove]

The problem now is that the screen door sits to high/far from the wall and doesn't look natural or correct.



More on this later this afternoon.

Jeff includes with the screen doors a small three bar portion that I only assumed could replace the small horizontal bar in the middle of the door.

This next photo shows that I cut out the center of the door and installed one of these three bar portions.



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...that piece is the "push bar" that was normally mounted on the screen door about waist high, that took all the abuse of the customers constantly pushing the door open...you would normally see advertising on those....today, they are highly collectible advertising memorabilia.....

[jlgrove]

Wow, I love what Tom does to these builds....lots of great how-to's and information....

[PRR Modeler]

I'm not sure what happened to my post but great color Tom, and the screen doors will be awesome.

[jimmillho]

Looking good Tom

Jim

[S&S RR]

Tom


Wonderful work my friend!

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Wow, I love what Tom does to these builds....lots of great how-to's and information....

Groovy Jeff,

Thank you for the generous compliment on the kit. And, thank you for letting me do a build thread for you.

I didn't realize the push bar was a "push bar". Now I realize it just fits on the screen door as you said waist high.

Tom

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I'm not sure what happened to my post but great color Tom, and the screen doors will be awesome.

Curt,

Thanks for stopping by, after loosing the first post. Jeff's screen doors really change the entire look of the country store/post office.

Tom