First a Garage

[Bedlam]

Hope you don't mind but some of those sunrise pictures I 'stole' for my desktop backgrounds. They are quite nice.
And sure understand how your arthritis or bones feel. Give the younger guys time it will hit them in about 30 years

 

[EddieWalker]

Thanks for the update. Two shovel fulls of extra concrete is both impressive and LUCKY!!! Congrats, some people make their own luck.

Eddie

 

[denmansoft]

Well after the good luck with the concrete it looks like we ran out.
Last Saturday we stopped by in Nanaimo to pick up the Garage doors I ordered on 10 Sep.
I had called about the order a couple of weeks before because no one had called to say they were in. I was told they were in stock and ready to be picked up. When I said I would be in on Saturday they said the location the doors were at was closed on saturday but they would have the doors brought over to the main store location.

We arrived saturday am to find the doors were not there! They called around and then the story turned to : they didn't have the panels with the glass that I ordered over 2 months before. I explained that we had just driven up from Victoria on our way to Denman.
We both had booked off from work for Monday so we would be able to get things closed up with the doors on! $75, fuel, $75 ferry fares and we still had a wide open garage.
Monday we were to go into Cumberland to pick up all the windows, soffits etc. These we would be able to install at our lesuire on weekends over the next month or so.

OK enough ranting.....

 

[denmansoft]

We didn't totally waste the weekend....
One of the inside jobs to do was install the Attic ladder. This will be used until a proper set of stairs and a door on the back wall rises to the top of the priority list. (probably next summer). This attic ladder fits between the 2' spaced truss joists. The springs and mechanism is a little close on the shoulders going up but its better than crawling up on the step ladder!


Another job was to install the Man door so we can get in/out once the garage doors are on!


Here we have the garage door openings all trimmed out. I built a quickie landing and step for the man door. I have to run the services along that wall over to where the house will be before building the deck/ steps along the water side.

 

[mjncad]

Don't you just hate dealing with inDUHviduals like the ones at the door supply company. Are you going to complain to the manager after you get your doors to see if they'll compensate you for your fuel and ferry expenses because of their incompetent employee(s)?

 

[rtdiggr]

I am not sure how i missed the start of this thread but i am here now. Thanks for the pictorial you are doing a great job and that is a beautiful site you have there.

Shane

 

[EddieWalker]

We arrived saturday am to find the doors were not there!

That sure is frustrating, especially when you called beforehand and they told you they were there. To say that you have justification for being upset with them would be an understatement. Are they a national chain? Small individual operation?

Somebody is in charge and in this situation, they should be notified of what happened in writing. Registered mail works better then anything else. Emails just get deleted, but a letter written on paper still gets results.

Explain what happened, when it happened and who you talked to. Then offer them the opportunity to make things right with you. Something like bringing the doors out to your place and installing them for you would be appropriate.

Eddie

 

[denmansoft]

Eddie we think alike...
It was bothering me about what it cost me but I stayed focused on what would actually help to solve the problem. One of the employees suggested that I could get a discount. That wouldn't solve the problem of no garage doors installed.
I talked with the store manager this week and suggested that since I wasn't able to install them it would be real nice if they could. He called back a short while later to say their installer would be going up on tue/wed for some other jobs and would put them in for me.

Too bad it will be several weeks before I get to see them.

The Company is a local family owned operation that started here in Sidney, they now have about a dozen locations on Vancouver Island. Everyone I know of has stories of getting home and finding out that it was 3" nails in the 2-1/2" bin etc. They have a good return policy and will usually go out of their way to try and solve problems. Thats what really counts in the end.

 

[hobie]

What a nice record of your project! It's a really attractive design, and your property must be a slice of heaven. Just had new garage doors put in myself. Missed a day of work due to misunderstanding "delivery" and "installation", but was happy with the end result. Sounds like you worked out a good solution in your case. I'll look forward to more pics! Brian

 

[mjncad]

Glad to hear you got a fair solution to the problem.