Random Thoughts - Part III The Search for Spark (No Politics)

[soundman98]

Its gotta be interesting to go to a museum with tcoat, hum, and ultra.

Between the 3, they've probably lived through most of the exhibits!

[2020BRZtS]

Originally Posted by 2020BRZtS

Something good happened to us today...

Back in March we ordered a new french door for our patio. The old one is rotting through, the frame is in desperate shape, and after 20 years it just needs replaced. We were told it would take about 10 weeks to come in and to play it safe they set the install 12 weeks out. Called the company at 12 weeks they said another 4 weeks. We tried to cancel but were told to read the back of our contract and delays were not cause for cancelling a special order. 4 weeks later no news but the expectation the door would be in by the end of the week so they scheduled the install for today.

They arrive today with the door and my wife is texting me from the other room while I am working telling me "by the look on their faces" something is wrong. They were outside scratching their heads, taking measurements, making phone calls... finally the installer comes in and says "I don't know how to tell you this but the door is too small and it's the manufacturer's mistake."

I laughed and I said - you mean... we have an out??? He was confused. I said we wanted out of this contract and the office said no. But now that the issue is not delays and a defect we can cancel with no penalty? He was all "ummmmm.... what?" He could not believe we were so happy.

So here's the back story. The opening for our door is about 6" narrower than a stock door that you can buy for $500 at a big box store. We tried getting a custom door 5 years ago and it was quoted at $5,500. Instead we had the frame rebuilt, replaced the astragal, and the door painted. At the time the frame was rebuilt, we found out the builder shimmed the door out by.... you guessed it.... 6". So this time around we figured about $2,000 for a stock door plus about $600 for installation. To quote Bailey Sarian, "neigh neigh". The total bill was over $9,000.

We are so happy about this situation. The contractor thinks we are nuts. We are out free and clear. Back to the big box.

UPDATE: Looked at big-box stores and the best I could do was a custom order at $2500 + installation. Then I remembered betterdoor.com. Ordered everything I needed for $370 to the door. The order shipped today.

Hope I'm not offending any contractors out there. I love a good DIY project.

[NoHaveMSG]

My new favorite past time at work is listening to the sales manager make excuses to the company president.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by soundman98

Its gotta be interesting to go to a museum with tcoat, hum, and ultra.

Between the 3, they've probably lived through most of the exhibits!

The car museum was fun. There was a lot of "I had one of those. I paid $50 for it"

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by 2020BRZtS

UPDATE: Looked at big-box stores and the best I could do was a custom order at $2500 + installation. Then I remembered betterdoor.com. Ordered everything I needed for $370 to the door. The order shipped today.

Hope I'm not offending any contractors out there. I love a good DIY project.

Don't you mean to the hole in the wall?

[2020BRZtS]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Don't you mean to the hole in the wall?

Touché mon frère. it's being delivered to the front door. The hole in the wall is the former back door.

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

That happened in a span of five minutes when I drove through a cloud of them. The locals all knew the spot. I forget the town. There's a famous track nearby.

Willow’s? Thunder hill is nearby.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by soundman98

Its gotta be interesting to go to a museum with tcoat, hum, and ultra.

Between the 3, they've probably lived through most of the exhibits!

You should hear @humfrz cuss when we get him spun up over ignorant people.

[ichitaka05]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

My new favorite past time at work is listening to the sales manager make excuses to the company president.

That sounds like me explaining why I haven’t finished some of the projects lol

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

Willow’s? Thunder hill is nearby.

Yes! That's it. Was a crazy thick swarm at night. I had to pull off the road to clean the headlights.

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by 2020BRZtS

Touché mon frère. it's being delivered to the front door. The hole in the wall is the former back door.

you know, some people pay rather large sums of money to maintain large holes in their house!



some go even further and call it a hobby!

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

You should hear @humfrz cuss when we get him spun up over ignorant people.

lol, i'd figure with all the time he's spent with bubba, he'd be used to a little ignorance from time to time!

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by soundman98

lol, i'd figure with all the time he's spent with bubba, he'd be used to a little ignorance from time to time!

There's hillbilly, and there's ignorant.

[spike021]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Yes! That's it. Was a crazy thick swarm at night. I had to pull off the road to clean the headlights.

i5 outside that town is sketchy.

That's where I witnessed the big rig accident a few years back the day after my HPDE, where a big rig crossed the center median and slammed into a pickup going north.