Or I might be just getting overwhelmed. I knew there was some damage to the frame itself. You can see here that there is quite a lot of damage at the bottom.
Then there is this.
The more I get into fixing up this house, the more I'm realizing that the previous owners weren't quite the handyman type that they imagined themselves to be. That looks less like actual damage and more like a half hearted, lick-at-a-snake type of repair. It's like they just slapped an extra strip of wood in the gap created when they added the tile.
The original plan was to take all that framing off and replace it. However, after spending so much on getting my plumbing repaired, I thought I'd just strip the old paint off and repaint it for now, the replace it all later. I could see that the previous paint job was not very well done, so I wanted to take it all off, down to the bare wood.
Do you want to know how thick and gloppy the previous paint application was? Do you see this nail?
The paint was built up so much on the door frame that this nail was barely visible. What's even worse, there was no reason for that nail to be sticking out that far. I found my hammer, and pounded it flush with the surface of the wood.
As the paint came off, I discovered even more shoddy workmanship.
The little wood strip that runs down the center of the door frame -- well, there was a significant gap between that strip and the actual frame itself.
A lot of the gap has paint stuffed into it, but it's still there. So, now I'm back to wanting to pull it all off and replace the whole mess. Since I want it done right, I think I'm going to have to ask for help with this.
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