There is one last thing to do to finish my shop renovation and that is to put a door at the back stairs that go down to the basement.
Building a basement door.
Building an exterior entrance to a basement can help to expand your home s functionality.
Steps to finishing a basement.
Allow room for hinges on the side but extend the top and bottom of each door to cover the frame of the opening.
Outside entrances allow basements to become apartments workshops or alternate entrances.
The direct basement access can be installed by a bilco dealer in a few hours.
I could have went out and bought a new hollow core door but decided to make my own.
The doors will be installed on top of the frame so water will shed off the opening and onto the ground.
Permentry is a pre cast concrete stairwell with steel or maintenance free polyethylene basement doors.
After the door is built you can install it with a prefabricated base.
Both doors must be the same height and width with a 1 4 to 1 2 inch gap between them.
The dimensions of the door are not critical and the construction is unsophisticated.
To build a soffit front rip 1 2 in.
This a step by step process on replacing a cellar or basement door with treated lumber.
It s easiest to preassemble the 8 ft.
Long soffit side sections and screw them to the bottom of the floor joists.
It must only be large enough to cover the bulkhead.