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Dear Asian Man </span></font>
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with the same unusual family name as my </span></font>
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not-a-drop-of-Chinese-blood Grandparents<i>:</i></span></font>
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(We can still pretend we're cousins and confuse everyone thoroughly - besides I like
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That's an idea worthy of your usual creative thinking. Where would be a good source
for doors? Could I go to the city dump and get them, or ?</span></font>
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<i>> On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:59:08 -0400, Marilyn <cybercrone@eol.ca> wrote:</i></span></font>
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<i>> > green roof put on the addition to my home,</i></span></font>
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<i>> > ground level is only about 2 inches below the door sill where I go out </i></span></font>
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<i>> Dear Occidental Woman </i></span></font>
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<i>> -with-not-a-drop-of-Chinese-blood-in-her-entire-family-who-mistakenly-thought-she-was-a-cousin-of-mine;</i></span></font>
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<i>> I think that I'd look at creating a dam around the vicinity of the door </i></span></font>
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<i>> (say minimum of 1 metre wide by 1.5 metres out from the wall) that is aout </i></span></font>
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<i>> 20 cm higher than the maximum snow accumulations that would be experienced </i></span></font>
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<i>> and enclose the "door well" with a light structure made of </i></span></font>
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<i>> diverted-from-the-wastestream patio doors. (There are bazillions of 20-30 </i></span></font>
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<i>> year old tract homes and high-rise apts in the Greater Toronto Area which </i></span></font>
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<i>> had single-glazed, aluminum-framed patio doors installed (ie two layers or </i></span></font>
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<i>> single-glazed doors--4 leaves for an opening) many of which are probably </i></span></font>
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<i>> ripped out annually and replaced with insulating glass units and they </i></span></font>
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<i>> usually end up getting tossed. 2 openings-worth of discarded doors and a </i></span></font>
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<i>> half-dozen sticks and you've got your doorwell enclosure. A DIY project </i></span></font>
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<i>> that could be done quite easily some weekend).</i></span></font>
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<i>> The sidewall panels could be designed to be popped out for the non-snow </i></span></font>
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<i>> months if desired.</i></span></font>
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<i>> The enclosure provides shelter to keep rain and snow away from the entry </i></span></font>
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<i>> to the house and an airlock entry to boot.</i></span></font>
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<i>> Rob Tom</i></span></font>
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<i>> Kanata, Ontario, Canada</i></span></font>
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<i>> < A r c h i L o g i c at Y a h o o dot C A ></i></span></font>
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<i>> (manually winnow the chaff from my edress if you hit REPLY)</i></span></font>
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