Friday, September 13, 2024
I've made a liar out of ad maestros who claim my new screen door installation was "oops proof"
Bought a new storm/screen door at Home Depot. A tad over six hundred bucks.
Holy shit! I’ve bought used cars for less than that and got five years outta them! Mind you, that was a few decades ago…
For six hundred bucks you get the Cadillac of storm doors. The Andersen 2000 series. You pull the top glass panel down and a bug screen rolls down from the top of the door!
Right on the box it tells you it’s a two hour installation.
Well!
Not in my world!
I figure I’m about twelve hours into this project. I’m taking tomorrow off, on account of the Cobble Beach Concours car show. Then, Sunday, I gotta undo most of what I did today.
That’s because, while the door is hung, looking good, and basically functional, I can’t fit the key set and deadlock because of a very minor measurement error whilst drilling holes in my six hundred dollar door.
That’s problematic right there; in my world, when you pay that kind of money for a screen door, it should be self-installing! Or at least the holes should be pre-drilled at the factory, rather than forcing an old fart with shaky hands and iffy eyesight to do the layout and measurement.
Anyway, it’s provided a few days of distraction from this fucked-up world.
That said, it’s also created a fresh problem. With that magic screen, the Farm Manager notices every time I slip out onto the stoop for a smoke.
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