Saturday, August 22, 2009

Seriously??

I'm pretty frustrated with this house that we bought a year and a half ago. The house isn't that old (it was built in 2006), but we've had all sorts of problems with it all ready. The biggest problem we've had has been with the garage door. When we bought the house the previous owners told us that they had tried to install the door themselves and had no clue what they were doing. Which caused them to dent the door at the top and put a big crease in it... The had said they had no problems with it since... oh of course they hadn't...

Well almost a year after owning the dang house, the garage door crease got bigger and bigger and finally creased so much that it wouldn't close anymore. Awesome.

So we bought a new one. Just a door, not a new motor. Well, four days ago, Ryan and I started having problems with it closing again. It would go down half way and then pop right back up. Sometimes it would work, sometimes it wouldn't. Irritating. Well, my dad came to visit and while I was at work, he had the pleasure of it FALLING OFF THE TRACKS when he tried to open it.... are you kidding me?

Apparently it wasn't installed that great back in November, so the guy had to come back and reinstall the track so it wouldn't flex as much. Great, right? Its fixed.... NO.

Well, when leaving this morning we noticed a really loud POP when we tried to open the garage. Then when trying to leave and shut the dang thing, it would go down half way again and go back up. Kill me. We left and did our thing, came home, and still noticed the loud popping but it would go up and down so I wasn't going worry about it until Monday when I could call again. Well then this happened....

If you're having trouble seeing what happened, I'll tell you... The freaking top track bar IS BENDING IN HALF!!! That those two things hanging?? Oh, well one is the CHAIN and the other is a STEEL TENSION WIRE. So because that whole rod is falling apart, and the chain broke, we can't open or close the door.

So now I'm fuming... we can't have it fixed until Monday, and we can't get my car out of there OR Ryan's car in. Luckly one car is on the outside so we're not stranded at our house. They just better get here first thing Monday morning or some heads are going to roll.

Oh, and don't use Overhead Doors in Bountiful, because apparently they are morons.

1 comment:

Brit Warner said...

I guess you share Dad's same lot in life...the never ending disappointment in all things electronic.