I got up at 8 today because I wanted to work on the trailer. I had breakfast and did the pet stuff. Then I went out to the garage and started building the partition to put behind the fireplace. That went pretty well.
After that I cut out the excess framing wood so that there was more room to reach inside. That went OK, but I wasn't able to make as neat a series of cuts as I wanted to. It made quite a mess that took time to clean up.
By then it was 1 and time for lunch. I had leftover pizza. I didn't feel like going back out, so I surfed and played games for awhile. Then I went back out.
I tried to fit the new fireplace in the cabinet. The support I made was too high (more on that later), so I spent some time lowering it and making it perfect. Then I spent a lot of time making the two vertical supports. I wanted them to fit a tight as possible.
I put a bunch of stuff away and made a couple of cardboard templates to show what the doors would look like. Then I had Ellen come out to look at it. That's when it all went south. It turns out that the top trim piece isn't vertical. It is slightly tilted up. That means that the vertical pieces I cut won't fit the doors. It's also why the support seemed too high.
Basically all of the hours of work I did after cutting the trim was wasted. Worst yet, I'll need to buy some more wood to redo the vertical pieces. I'll also have to do some more trim cutting and use the Dremel to cut a little of the mounting tabs off the fireplace (every job involves the Dremel). I'm disappointed.
Ellen fixed leftover meatloaf and a HEB meal for dinner. After dinner it was TV and games.
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