The front door assembly was the final missing element of our new home’s exterior. It was installed today but not without challenges. Due to the way it must be tipped into position because of its extreme weight the opening height has to be larger than the published rough opening. Mathematically speaking, the space needs to be sized to equal the hypotenuse of a triangle with a base equal to the width of the door assembly and a height equal to the height of the door assembly. When the foreman of the five-man installation crew found me in my shop to inform me that the door would not fit, I simply grabbed one of my battery-operated saws and followed him upstairs. I have learned to roll with the punches through the course of our build. In less than 20 minutes, I was able to increase the size of the rough opening and the door assembly was placed into postion. Even though it is fully functional as-is, the crew will return on Friday to remove and reinstall the assembly so that it can be anchored more securely and raised up higher so that the door will have more clearance above the finished interior floor (to accommodate a rug).