Friday, December 10, 2010

I really dislike working on windows

what with the chance of cuts and slices and major hemorrhage and such. But friend had a broken window, so.

Get the old glass out, measure, get the new pane, start to install it and- it's too wide. By maybe 1/4". No, they didn't cut it wrong; I didn't notice that the top rail of the frame had a slot the glass fit into(I plead tired and dumbass), so it didn't need to be as wide as I thought. So back to Lowe's to trim that 1/4", back over, and it slides right in. I had some points left from my own cracked pane, did have to get some glazing compound, but it's all done.

Now if you'll excuse me, I think I'll eat something and fall over.

5 comments:

og said...

Get a pair of fish cleaning gloves. The Kevlar will keep you from lacerating your fingers off.

Keith said...

Yep, I prefer mac too...

Firehand said...

Fishing gloves... damn, hadn't thought of those. Next time.

Sigivald said...

I'm kinda surprised you didn't do your own trimming.

Not that I really blame you.

Glass, she is a bitch.

Firehand said...

Well, when the guy at the store can set the pane in the frame and make two zips to cut it, I'll go with that.

Especially for trimming that 1/4" edge; trying it myself there's about 70% chance I'd crack the pane.