okay -- we've been living in this house for more than 10 months now... and so far we have had so many workers come out to fix various things...
the latest has been the garage door opener -- which wasn't covered under the home warranty like the other items.
At first it would just get stuck about a quarter of the way up, and then stop. This could usually be fixed by pushing the button to send it back down again and then waiting a minute and then trying it again. But then it got to the point where it wouldn't move more than 8 inches off the ground. Andy decided he was going to tinker with it -- I was headed to the loo so told him to wait for me. I'm sitting in the loo and I hear this giant boom -- the house shudders -- I'm freaking out imagining decapitation or something... so I go rushing out and he's fine but the opener is most definitely not! I can smell burning. Basically the gears have gone. Game over.
Because we don't know how old the opener is we don't know if it is still covered or anything. So we start looking around at prices for a new opener. We settle on Sears one because they will install it and much more will cover it under warranty for 2 full years (extendable if we want it) for only $30 more. The new one has a keypad for if you forgot/lost your keys or if someone is taking care of the cats while we are away or something.
So mr. man came yesterday afternoon to install it -- it was a bit of a palaver making the appointment, it was originally for wednesday (he'd have done it on monday if i'd been free) at 4 and they had to call back because the installer who was going to do it backed out, so he was working with a different installer now -- and so it was for Tuesday at 4 -- the cats and I both jumped when there was loud knocking on the door at 3pm.... he was an hour early....??? That has never happened for me before!
It didn't take him long to do it and then he showed me that everything was working and how to change the keypad code and other things... then he was off. I then went to open the door to the garage to reach around and push the button to close the garage door and the door opened by itself and Andy walked in-- scared the life out of me! (he's been doing that lately -- the other night when I got home from the crop at 1:30am, I was getting a glass of milk and all of a sudden he starts talking to me from the hallway -- I couldn't even see him or anything -- I nearly wet myself)
So we now have a working garage door -- but we do need to get to a do-it-yourself store and buy some new casters for the door's tracks -- it makes a lot of noise right now squeaking and squealing.
Posted by kristen at October 25, 2006 2:12 PMIt could be worse Kristen ~ our bath leaks throught the kitchen ceiling and the plumber can't work out where it's coming from. When you flush the toilet, it sounds like the horn of the Titanic. The oven only operates on one temperature ~burn mode. The garage door at the front doesn't open AT ALL!
My brother had an idea for a new D.I.Y. programme called "Leave it to Pete" where people phone in with D.I.Y. problems every week ....and nothing gets done about them.