Ouch! Shattered patio door with stone from lawnmower...
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Bugger! I wonder how many others have done this?
I was cutting the grass tonight and mover picked up a stone and threw it a good 40' into the patio doors - result one shattered outer panel, the inner is intact but the whole unit needs replacing urgently.
Visible area is 1700mm x 472mm and the unit is double glazed, toughened and ~20mm thick.
The insurance covers it but with a £200 excess and loss of 10% no claims discount.
Any idea of the cost to replace? If there's any chance of getting it done under £250 then not much sense in making a claim.
Arse!
I was cutting the grass tonight and mover picked up a stone and threw it a good 40' into the patio doors - result one shattered outer panel, the inner is intact but the whole unit needs replacing urgently.
Visible area is 1700mm x 472mm and the unit is double glazed, toughened and ~20mm thick.
The insurance covers it but with a £200 excess and loss of 10% no claims discount.
Any idea of the cost to replace? If there's any chance of getting it done under £250 then not much sense in making a claim.
Arse!
I did this a few years back with our old wooden patio doors. Glass was about £60 as already stated and took me a couple of hours. Had to carefully prise out the 1/4 dowels, remove old glass and clean up, put putty in, glass in with packers round the outside to position glass correctly, putty in the corners, and refit the dowels.
Hardwood is slightly more labour intensive . If you're lucky the old unit is barely stuck in with anything and the glazing beads come away clean with no breakage
If you're unlucky removing the old unit if it's well stuck with putty can be difficult to do without damaging the rebate . The glazing beads can be prone to snapping on removal so a trip to the local timber merchant to get new ones is necessary, either from stock or worse still custom made. Then there's filling the pins and staining to match , all a pain in the ar5e.
Unit manufacture time should be 2 days maximum if the company has their own toughening plant , or about a week if they send it off / buy in
It is a quite easy , if time consuming DIY job
If you're unlucky removing the old unit if it's well stuck with putty can be difficult to do without damaging the rebate . The glazing beads can be prone to snapping on removal so a trip to the local timber merchant to get new ones is necessary, either from stock or worse still custom made. Then there's filling the pins and staining to match , all a pain in the ar5e.
Unit manufacture time should be 2 days maximum if the company has their own toughening plant , or about a week if they send it off / buy in
It is a quite easy , if time consuming DIY job
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