Better Door Than Window

So you’ve just built a new deck on the back of your house and those once lovely double windows in the living room would quite literally make a better door than a window — sliding glass or French door — out to that awesome deck to be precise.

Break on through
The good news about turning a window into a door, assuming it’s wide enough, is that the advanced carpentry required for altering a load-bearing wall is pretty much done for you. That doesn’t mean this project is easy — the DIYNetwork.com Cuss-O-Meter is tipping out at 5 out of 5 — but the basic gist is that you first remove the window then remove the building materials beneath the existing window, creating the rough opening for the new door.

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