Just a little rant.But there are more shocking things happened to others week .Good start to the week was the shredding and exploding front tyre and tube.Then came the demise of a well loved ,twenty years we have been ffriends, garage door.The guiding wires frayed and the door shot up the frame at a very strange angle.A replacement is in excess of £400 and to compound a funny week.A lovely long ride around and around that famous 770 Leeds to Harrogate bus route.A spoke snapped and the back wheel is just slightly bent.So a visit to Edinburgh bicycle shop is on the cards .They say things come in threes.
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vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
Garage door - there are companies that will re-thread the wires. We had ours done for a reasonable sum. Have a look in yellow pages.
We had the whole front of our garage replaced along with barge boards, guttering and a garage door for £450.
Get a couple of quotes.
I've been reminded by my wife that a full refurb:
Garage door, side door, replacement front, barge boards and guttering and downpipe was £500.
She should know - she paid the bill
We had the whole front of our garage replaced along with barge boards, guttering and a garage door for £450.
Get a couple of quotes.
I've been reminded by my wife that a full refurb:
Garage door, side door, replacement front, barge boards and guttering and downpipe was £500.
She should know - she paid the bill
XmisterIS
Purveyor of fine nonsense
Postman - you can get garage doors off the internet and DIY them for much less than £400! I got a side-hinged Garadoor (a decent make) for £350 and installed it myself. To get a chap out to do it would have cost at least twice that.
It's dead easy to do; just measure your aperture (oh matron!) - if it's a single garage it's probably 7'x7', or something like that, order the door, prop door in place and make sure it's straight and level (nothing a few spacers can't achieve), then drill straight through the frame and into the bricks, hammer in some 180mm frame fixers and screw them in tight.
Job's a good 'un. 1 hour, max. If you can be bothered, you can seal round the door afterwards (I couldn't be bothered!)
Garage doors are by far the easiest of all doors/windows to fit.
It's dead easy to do; just measure your aperture (oh matron!) - if it's a single garage it's probably 7'x7', or something like that, order the door, prop door in place and make sure it's straight and level (nothing a few spacers can't achieve), then drill straight through the frame and into the bricks, hammer in some 180mm frame fixers and screw them in tight.
Job's a good 'un. 1 hour, max. If you can be bothered, you can seal round the door afterwards (I couldn't be bothered!)
Garage doors are by far the easiest of all doors/windows to fit.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
