Brand new doors to replace the broken one…

It has been a few weeks since we were broken into, and I have long since cleaned up most of the broken glass from the door. A friend of mine then came over and measured the door for me to make sure that I got the correct size, and told me he would be by after work the next night to help me install it. The best laid plans, however…

I got a call from him the next morning, however. He told me he had forgotten that he had already made plans with his kids for that evening. Was it all right if he brought one of his guys over and they installed it that morning or early afternoon? I guess having general contractors for friends is a good thing.

When I got home that night, our brand new doors were installed. They had no trouble getting in the house, since there had been a huge hole in the back of it once they took the plywood off. It is too bad that I could not help install it, but at least it got done pretty quickly and by somebody that knew what he was doing. My mother had to reinstall her doors in her house because they were not installed correctly when she lifted it up and put a foundation in last year or the year before.

Now, though, I have some wonderful new doors in my basement. They are much more energy efficient than the old doors, and look much nicer. We had planned on replacing those doors in a few years anyway; the break-in just gave us an excuse to do it while we could still get a tax credit for it as well.