What happened to your front door?
lol.....It looks like a Katrina house doesn't it?...haha. Kind of a long story but here it goes....
We have had several issues with that front door area because it has no covering and receives full sun for most of the day. We have already had the entire door encasement replaced once. Since then we have had the front door painted black. We have had to repaint the door just about every year because of the sun damage. Because it was black it would get so hot that it literally started blistering the paint.
In November we decided to go ahead and replace just the door to start fresh and just keep it white. We ordered the door and the company came out to measure for the order. While he was here measuring it we realized there was some rot in the surround of the door below the window.....so we had to go back and order the surround. It was to take 3 weeks....
They came to install the door about a week before Christmas.......but they had mis-measured. They had to reorder the door and surround to put us back another 3 weeks. Then they came to install the second door a couple weeks after New Years. This is where the fun began.
The installers removed the old door and surround. I was downstairs doing work and listening to the steady hammering and cutting. Then there was dead silence followed by "Mr. Spears, could you come here for a second". I knew this couldn't be good. When i got to the gaping hole in the front of our house they showed me an area that should have been wood but was instead swiss cheese. We had live termites eating away at the threshold and part of the sub floor. I immediately called the pest control company we have our termite bond with and they came out. They sent a few guys out and started treating the area and assured me they would be gone but we still had to wait 30 days to install our door. Since they had already pulled the old door out and it wasn't worth trying to patch it up. They just went ahead and framed up the entrance, boarded it up and insulated it. Then they caulked it all up tight for the wait.
30 days went by and the inspector came out and looked around. He said it was fine for them to come back and install the door. It took about a week to get back on the installer's schedule. They came back out, took the temporary wall out and started prepping for the install. Once again i got the call to come to the door. As they were trying to figure out what was good wood and what was bad. We realized that the damage was worse than expected. At this point they had to just reinstall the temporary wall and we had to look for a contractor to come do the work.
For the last several weeks there have been several things come up on our side and the contractor's side that caused the demo work to be delayed. Finally this week they came to tear up our hardwood floors and structure in the foyer, then rebuild. The door was installed today. Another guy is coming to install the new hardwood floors this week and then the contractor is coming back to do all the finish work.
It had been a long few months but at least it will be fixed correctly and not cost us a dime.
Yeah man. That is my new 3G Cruiser. Because of my back i am selling my mountain bike. Since i have been riding this one i haven't had any back pain.
Birmingham is getting a little rough, this is why he takes the kids somewhere else to ride their bikes. :bounce:
AHAHHA.......not this part.....:becky: