Day 309 – Nuts & Bolts

by The Philosophical Fish

November 4, 2016 – Today was spent listening to thumping, sawing, drilling, hammering and other associated noises from upstairs as an old single paned 8′ sliding glass door is torn out and a new energy efficient one that, unlike it’s predecessor (hopefully) won’t leak into the downstairs whenever there is combined rain and wind, is installed.

They hit a couple of snags, we knew there was some rot in the underlying wood, but didn’t know the extent. It turned out to be not too terrible and they were able to pull out and replace what they needed to in order to have a solid purchase and foundation for the new slider, and we know that we have to tear up the deck surface and replace some of the underlying wood before we resurface it, but we can get at anything else from underneath downstairs, since we have to take down the garage ceiling and the ceiling in the entry from the garage at some point anyway.

The other snag was getting the old door out and the new one in. The poor guys arrived hoping for an easy Friday job, and their faces fell a bit when they discovered that they had to somehow get everything done upstairs

It’s going to be so nice to have a sliding door that we can actually leave open in the summer now, the old one didn’t have a screen and we’ve already had a bat fly in once! Now we will be able to keep bats and bugs out, and cats in.

The cats, oh they are probably so pissed off at me. They’ve been locked in the office with a bowl of water and their litter  box since 10am this morning, and it’s now their dinner time and they guys are still working on the door. Hopefully the cats haven’t killed each other…..

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