Plane Crazy

Exactly six months ago (I knew this blog would come in useful) we had the new bedroom carpet fitted, since when the bedroom door can only be opened and closed by either shouldering or tugging with both hands, a situation I hoped was temporary pending some wearing down of the new, apparently thicker, carpet but today I resigned myself to planing the bottom of a door, a minefield of a job beset with potential difficulties: first the screws in the hinges generally refuse to cooperate, second there is the question of how much to take off – too little (and you don’t know until the door is back on its hinges) and you have to start all over again, too much and there is daylight showing and potentially a gale blowing in -  and then you really need three hands to put the door back, two to hold the heavy (solid pine) thing in place and one to drive at least the first screw in; it took some time, but just two attempts, to achieve an acceptable coexistence of door and carpet - still a bit of resistance but we can now use the door handle as god intended.