So the garage door saga continues...

**thinkerlady**[$] · #1 03-23-2008, 08:21 PM

Yesterday hubby and son decided to do some work on the wall next to the door, so that when they come to install the door it will be done.

One thing led to another, and I heard a major crash. I opened the door from the kitchen to discover that the door was off the track and basically on top of my husband and son. The door is a big 2-door one--16' x 7'. How neither of them got smashed or hurt, I don't know.

They had to dismantle the door, and then put the panels back, and then boarded up the sides. It is not usable.

We still have at least 3 weeks to wait for the new one.

The wall still needs more work.

**amykhar** · #2 03-23-2008, 08:29 PM

Glad they didn't get hurt.

**thinkerlady**[$] · #3 03-23-2008, 08:38 PM

Yeah me too. It would have been hard to explain at the ER.

Now I have to park in the driveway until the new door arrives. At least one point is confirmed. You know my Hubby, Amy, at one point he thought that he and I could install the new door. That was about 2 years ago. When we ordered the new one, we also paid for installation. Can you imagine if we didn't???

MissyRissy · #4 03-23-2008, 09:25 PM

Parking on the driveway... oh no.

**hadassahchana**[$] · #5 03-23-2008, 09:55 PM

Yikes! I'm glad they're ok. That sounds scary!

**thinkerlady**[$] · #6 03-23-2008, 10:02 PM

If it rains and my hair gets wet Missy, you will understand.

**theworm**[$] · #7 03-23-2008, 10:05 PM

Missy - put an umbrella in her car!!!!

MissyRissy · #8 03-23-2008, 10:17 PM

What do you think I deal with when it rains?????? I have hair too

**thinkerlady**[$] · #9 03-23-2008, 11:30 PM

Phhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Wormie, wanna referee????

**theworm**[$] · #10 03-24-2008, 09:32 AM

just get two umbrellas?

poseidon · #11 03-24-2008, 11:04 AM

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thinkerlady said

Yeah me too. It would have been hard to explain at the ER.

Now I have to park in the driveway until the new door arrives. At least one point is confirmed. You know my Hubby, Amy, at one point he thought that he and I could install the new door. That was about 2 years ago. When we ordered the new one, we also paid for installation. Can you imagine if we didn't???

1. I'm glad your son and husband weren't hurt. This could have been much, much worse.

2. I'll bet that wouldn't have been the first time the ER had heard a similar story. Michelle worked in a few doctors' offices and some of the stuff she heard was just amazing, and family practices and allergy clinics don't typically see "emergencies" and accidents.

**thinkerlady**[$] · #12 03-24-2008, 12:48 PM

Thanks Jeff--I always fear having to explain something to a medical emergency team. This was supposed to be something simple, putting dry wall up around one side of the garage door. Turns out the frame is not straight. How that happened at construction is beyond me, but it did. So now hubby is trying to figure out how to straighten the frame without demolishing the entire garage. It has been as issue since we bought the house, but now it is at a peak since we are having the new door put in. He was at it again yesterday, and was able to get half the dry wall up, it is the top half he is still pondering.

Wormie--I hate umbrellas. I much prefer my hood. However, to get to my car now, I have to go out the front door, and around to the side of the house to the driveway. Missy will be complaining soon too because she has to do the same, she can't just slip out the garage door. We never use our front door, but now we must.

**mjfrombuffalo**[$] · #13 03-24-2008, 04:24 PM

mj
who has no garage

**Helen_B**[$] · #14 03-24-2008, 04:24 PM

You ordered a door, and the frame isn't plumb or square? Anything I can think of that would fix that without moving the wall involves making the opening smaller by adding new framing. Ouch. Let us know how you solve this! Isn't this a problem for the installers? They must run into this kind of thing all the time.

**thinkerlady**[$] · #15 03-24-2008, 05:56 PM

Ah Helen, the frame is ok, and what isn't the installers will deal with. It is the wall adjacent to the frame. evidently the supports are not straight, and somehow never were. My husband took off the original dry wall (the entire garage has dry wall up) and found this out. This after the bottom of the wall was not plumb with the ground. We aren't sure what exactly qualified it to pass inspection, but it did. (We are not the original owners). So hubby after discovering this years back always intended to fix it properly, but never got to it. Now with the new door coming, he wants to make sure it is ok. He also has to do something with the bottom.
It is amazing what we found in this house after we bought it. For example, there is a huge beautiful deck, but NONE of the fence beams were IN the ground. They were resting ON TOP of the ground. Hubby took them all down, and planted them in cement properly. That caused him to look under the deck. It was built without supports. He had to take most of it apart, and add supports and rebuild. The whole thing could have collapsed. I don't think the previous owner used the deck.
Anyhow, I miss my garage. It just doesn't seem natural to use the front door!!!

**Helen_B**[$] · #16 03-27-2008, 01:39 AM

The dumbass who originally owned our home plumbed in the gas line to the stove himself, with a water tap for a shut off, and then walled it into the ceiling with drywall. We discovered this thirty-some years later, right near an electical ceiling fixture that we had capped off years ago. Our whole house could have blown up, if there had been a spark. A teesy weensy spark. AAAGH!

mtbat · #17 03-27-2008, 12:04 PM

a few years ago, my ex inlaws neighbor was comming home from the market-her garage door wouldn't open all the way so she takes a plastic bag to put over her hair and then trys to go under the door, wacks her head and ends up nearly unconcious on the drive way-the neighbor on the other side sees her lying there with a plastic bag over her head and calls 911-to report that she's(the neighbor who's door wouldn't open) trying to kill herself.

So the neighbor had to explain to the paramedics that no, she wasn't trying to smother heself, just keep her hair from getting ruined.

**mjfrombuffalo**[$] · #18 03-27-2008, 08:09 PM

Since it all turned out OK, that's really funny