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This video is to help you understand how the various trim parts go on
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Now they really are mostly decorative, but they do add some strength to the house as well
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So I do recommend you put them on. And here you see the trim on the left side of the door opening, the one above the door
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and then there's trim all the way around the outside of the door, too
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This makes the door more rigid, helps it to stop from twisting
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and gives you a much more substantial place to mount the hinges
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This T-hinge here, and the same goes here. This wood trim is going to help fasten the other leaf of the hinge
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And it just does a really good job. You don't have to be crazy fussy about these joints
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You know, just set your chop saw to that 15 degrees from square setting
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and then put the pieces together and fasten them down with some more glue
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And end screws driven from the inside. You want to drive it from the inside so you don't see the screws
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And as I explain in the instructions, there might be the odd little point of a screw that sticks through
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You don't have a lot of material to work with here. It's only 5 eighths of an inch thick
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So you want to make sure the screw is making full use of that thickness
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And if you get the little point of a screw sticking out, it's no problem
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A couple of seconds with the belt sander will completely remove that, and you won't see it at all
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So the front of the house isn't shown here, but if it was in place
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you would be installing some more trim strips. But in this case, it would be wide enough to extend and cover the edge of the neighboring trim pieces
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So you really want to create an enclosed corner where you're not seeing any plywood around the edges at all
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And, you know, it's worth the trouble, and it's not a lot of trouble
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but it adds a lot of good looks and substantial strength to the house as well
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When you're doing this, pre-drill the holes through the plywood. Not through this wood though, because it's not very thick and it's soft wood
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You don't need to pre-drill, but to make things drive properly, you want to pre-drill holes here so that the deck screws you're using pass easily between the plywood
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Sorry, through the plywood. You don't want the threads hanging up on that plywood
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because that will stop these trim pieces from being drawn in tightly
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So just the right size hole for the screw. No bigger than necessary, but you don't want the threads biting into the screw
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And back here you'll notice... Let me just magnify that a bit
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Back here you'll see these strips. They're plywood, and their job is to extend out past the door opening
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to form a lip so that the door has something to close against
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If you have these doorstop strips in place already, of course you'll have to use a longer screw
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But 5 eighths of... no, 1 1⁄4 inch screws are fine. It's the maximum length you can use here, in fact, if these strips aren't in place
