Chimmy Door Conclusion

As I mentioned in a previous post, last weekend when I was at the farm my dad was able to trim the bottom flange off the chimney door. This left a raw surface where he cut it. He and mom suggested hitting it with some Rustoleum to give it a fighting chance.
I was pretty sure I had some black. But no.
Then I thought I grabbed the clear. But no.
Which is how I wound up with a white chimney clean out door.
A white door on arguably the dirtiest place on the house. Oh well. At least it's clean and functional.
Once the paint dried, I assembled the bits I needed.

A bag to hold the junk I'll dig out of the chimney, a trowel, the door, and a tube of JB Weld,
which claims it will adhere to metal and concrete.

Since this door doesn't service an active fire chimney (it's the exhaust for the furnace), I was comfortable using an adhesive instead of messing around with mixing up mortar. The door is only mildly functional - it is an access - but it's not as necessary as if this was still a wood or coal chimney.

Opened and cleaned.

I shoveled out the debris. There wasn't very much, which is good. I'm going to skip how I cleaned out the old mortar from around the hole. Let's just say you shouldn't do it the way I did it, but I wasn't about to run out to Lowes again. The old mortar was a little more stable than it looked and took some persuasion. I could have sworn I had a cold chisel around, but I couldn't find it to save myself.
I never liked that screwdriver anyway.

Fits!

 It took some fussing and persuading, but I got it in! After a dry fit, I mixed up the JB Weld and slathered it around the back of the flange and pressed it into place. For my purposes, I probably could have gotten away with just dry fitting it, but it felt better to have it stuck there. I pointed a space heater at it for a while so that it would cure a little faster. (It's kind of chilly in the basement.)

DaTa!
Check that off my list!