Posted by NCWayne on July 03, 2009 at 21:46:06 from (98.21.228.167):
The day started last night (Thursday) around 11:30 PM when our friend, who rents my wife's old house from us, called. He had just walked in his door after going to work that morning and stopping on the way home to see his girl friend, only to discover he had been robbed. We made a trip up to the house to see what was going on and to talk to the cops as well as to make sure the busted in rear door was secured.
Based on what we saw they tried getting in the front door and couldn't so they had climbed the fence in the rear of the house, kicked in the rear door, then opened the front door and carted the stuff across the front yard to a waiting car. It could have been worse than it was but they still got a 52 inch flat panel TV, an electric guitar and amp, his computer system, his stereo system, and his IPOD. All total he's estimating in the $8000 range worth of stuff gone...all in just a few minutes.
Sad thing is the police no longer dust for fingerprint, etc. Robbery in Charlotte has become so routine (one of the responding cops said he averages 5 break ins a shift) that they no longer take the time to dust for prints, etc. They basically file a police report, give you the file number and tell you to call your insurance and file a claim.
When I saw the damage last night I thought I was fortunate that only the door itself was damaged and not the jamb since changing a door isn't that big of a deal.....Boy was I WRONG.....Made a trip to Home Depot and Lowes and guess what, an uncased, steel, entry door isn't available at either place. I can get any size interior door I want but not an exterior one...So I buy the correct, standard size, cased door (standard RH swing 32x80) My thinking was OK, now I'm good to go. I'll just take the old one off at the hinges, do the same with the new one, install the new one in the existing casing and the repair will be done.....again WRONG.... They are supposed to be standard sized doors so you'd assume that meant the "same sized" door but that's not the case. The old one was nearly 3/8 longer than the new one, so the new one wouldn't fit and seal in the old casing....OK, I'll just change casings, no problem....WRONG AGAIN......Finally get the old casing out and discover that it's nearly an inch taller than the new one one and slightly narrower. Fortunately I was able to shoe horn the new one in side to side and get it squared up and then cut up a piece of the old casing to make a top spacer to fill in the gap. Finally get all that taken care of and then I discovered that due to the smaller casing size the storm door no longer fits and will have the frame trimmed to fit (typical for a initial application but you don't figure on haveing to do it with a retrofit on a STANDARD sized door)...
You'd think doing something as simple as this wouldn't be that hard since everything is supposed to be standard sizes but that would be wrong. Heck even the reinforcment pieces I got extra for the door edges and for the jambs said they were sized to fit standard hardware measurements but even that was wrong....so I had to deal with all that too in order to make things look as right as possible instead of like something someone had cobbled together.
Fortunately a neighbor across the street saw us working and came over and asked if the cops there on Thur night were somehow related to a break in because she had seen activity at the house around 10 PM but didn't think to call the cops....This is in a "Neighborhood Watch Comminuty"...what a joke that was.... Funny thing is one of the people she saw was a teenage neighbor to one side of the house....who of course says "I didn't do it"....
To say both my friend and I had bad days would be an understatement....just hope the weekend goes good and things don't get any worst...now on to the kitchen flooring project I was supposed to be working on today and hoping to get done before the house gets appraised.......
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