Garage door - repaint

Standard operating procedure, and still taking the piss.

Axes are more traditional, but we have to keep up with the times.

Build a patio.

If it is really in need of stripping, then either of the first two. BTW, if the door is around 7' x 7' - ish, you can get a brand new insulated, remote control operated and insulated roller door for less than £500 - assuming you are willing to self install.

Have you a recommendation? This is uk.d-i-y so I'm willing to install myself. Door opening is 2.3(w)x2.2(h).

You can get an entire concrete garage with new door, installed on a new base for less than that!

You had better luck than me - You got a quote ;-)

Had already looked at replacing our up'n'over and been quoted about 450-

Anyhoo ... One day bloke from some double glazing company stolls up and asks if I want a quote on a new garage door. OK sez I.

"Can I have you name, land line phone number ..."

Er, no. I just want a quote.

"It'll have to measured".

OK, I'll hold one end the tape and you write down the number at your end ...

"Oh, I'm just collecting leads for my manager, he'll give you a quote".

Why don't you measure the door and phone him and ask for a quote?

"What time would be convenient for him to see yourself and your wife for a quote?"

No need for the wife, just a tape measure will do.

"Can I say 5pm?"

Can you give me a quote?

"So, you will both be available at 5pm?"

No. Can you just get out a tape measure, look it up on your little sheet and give me a quote here and now?

"I can't give you a quote. My manager has to speak to yourself and your wife"

At this point I grabbed the little card he was scribbling on, ripped it into 1000's of tiny peices and threw them at him.

He left.

Poor sod - Being a Monkey for a double glazing firm is had work - 35 quid for a lead ... They don't last long.

Oh well. If I'd got a quote for less than 450 quid I'd have had it done.

Sadly, they suckered the neighbours into a full window refit. I dread to think what they paid. The plain glass in their bathroom window was replaced after a while, but not until after we'd all had a good laugh ... ;-)

Al.

My man was the area sales manager no less. He never asked to see the wife, but his sales pitch was just perfect - apart from closing the deal. So many discounts, even a discretionary manager's discount. I still can't work out if anything he told me was true. Right down to the picture of his kid on his laptop.

Farm auction, 5 quid 8-)

Otherwise hunt around on the interwebs and compare prices, also factoring in your delivery costs. If you're near a city and you have an estate car, you might save something that way.

Personally I'd also want galv steel laths. not aluminium. Fibreglass is no bloody use at all, as the local chavvery can stick their heads straight through it.

How about turning your existing garage door into something notable?

I want one that looks like the drive goes straight through to the back garden.

Helps avoid this nasty bit of Greed:

Tinied to:

"People with garages, conservatories and patios - and even parking spaces - are also in the firing line"

Al.

JDT2Q wrote on 26/07/2009 :

Which was one reason why I decided to add the IR beam interlock :-)

notable?

Owain

Pretty typical. Look after yourself, try & improve your lot, do a bit of graft - and they will sh*t upon you from a great height.