STILL Waiting

Still waiting on the glass guy (Austin Cut Glass) to get back to me. I've called back, set up numerous times for him to come over or get back to me but they've all been broken. There's nothing more annoying than someone not following through. So unless they get back to me before the end of the week, I've had a change of plans.

This afternoon I'm going to measure the size of the window. Accurate measurements that I can take somewhere else. I know what kind of design I'm looking for, so I can take the measurements around and get a new window made on my own. Dunno about installing it... if bad comes to worse I can always take the door off the pins and install the glass horizontally. Unless there's a way to install it while the door is installed (maybe they give it to you in a box because you have to get the glass from their place to where you live somehow.

And refinishing the door... shouldn't be as hard as I thought according to one of my coworkers who's done it before. He described it as taking only a few hours. I might do it myself even though it's also a pretty intimidating job. I could do that when I change out the door hardware, or at least refinish it with the hardware off so in theory there wouldn't be any marks whenever I get around to deciding what I want to change it to.

That would save a few hundred $$ which would go immediately towards replacing the roof. I don't need to worry about contractors, because one of the three I called about a quote (and the only one who actually gave me a firm date which is in about an hour) is actually the owner of the company and I'm pretty sure he lives in the house behind me and over 1. I'm looking forward to getting that taken care of, and I'm sure it will. Even if the other two companies don't call back. They were supposed to by the end of this weekend so I guess we'll figure that part out pretty soon.

I have a pretty good idea of the cost. Reroofing isn't exactly cheap but if you do it right it's not something that'll have to be done again for a LONG time.