You know what’s a great addition to a house — a porch. Not only does it keep rain off of you when you dash up to your entryway in a downpour, but it also keeps all those drips off your door. And, we’ve found out from more experienced folks, and also now realized from personal experience, a door is a notoriously difficult place to prevent leaking… Even a small porch is helpful. We’re already excited for the day when our tiny house is in a more permanent locale and we can build a porch over the door.
Some of the more astute observers probably noticed in the photos from my last post on the electrical work that our door was again missing from the entryway. Yup, it was leaking… again. We’d already had to pull up the threshold once before because of some leaking, and made a few modifications (as I mentioned in the original post about the door), but those were apparently not enough. Sigh.
So, we had to un-mount the door, rip the threshold out, and pull the trim off. Eli basically had to rebuild the entire threshold using thicker wood to which he gave a deeper angle, so it would shed water more effectively out of the house, not allowing it to pool on the threshold and find its way into the house. Our recommendation is not to waste your money on a (poorly) pre-made threshold unless you have a solid porch that will be protecting that door. We also added more waterproofing membrane under the threshold and used the membrane to form a “tub” of sorts that wouldn’t allow entry of any water into the house, but would again, shed it back outside. And, of course, thick beads of silicone in connection cracks.
Our fingers are crossed that this will be the last time we redo our entryway. It only rained a few more times (before the summer dry season began) after the threshold revamp, but we didn’t see any evidence of leaking, so we’re hoping once the rains come again next fall, we’ll be watertight!
On a more pleasant note, notice in the first photo above, the stepping block pathway from our driveway to the house! It saves the grass from continual trampling and the tiny house floor from tracked mud. Gives it quite the homey look, too, eh? 🙂
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