A couple of weeks ago I had an attempted break-in at my other house; the would-be thieves used pry-bars to lever up the automatic roller-door to the carport and made a total mess of it. Insurance will replace the roller door of course, but that's not the point. Anyway, whilst I was there with the work-crew sent by the insurance company to secure the roller-door, (it wouldn't close properly), one of the chaps made an observation about my fence...and that's what's had me frustrated and screwing all weekend.
I need to confess, I wasn't exactly screwing all weekend, just on Sunday. Here's why.
The fellow pointed out there were no screws attaching the top capping on the sheets of colourbond steel fencing panels to the panels themselves. This meant the capping could be easily lifted off and the panel slid upwards and out of the channels on the posts to either side leaving a gaping hole in my fence. He demonstrated the scenario and sure enough, it was a very simple thing to open up my fence to gain access.
It annoyed me that I hadn't noticed it when the fence was installed but I left it to the fencing professionals, the father of a friend, to do the right thing - Clearly they didn't. I decided Sunday was as good a day as any to do some screwing so I headed over there equipped with my cordless impact driver and a pile of tek-screws to rectify the issue.
I'd love to make it seem that the task required a lot of manliness and skill but in truth a monkey could have done the job.
It was a simple matter of driving the self-tapping tek-screws into the capping through into the fence panels themselves. I put three in each panel-section, one at each side close to the uprights and one in the middle, and repeated that on both sides of the fence; I'm the, do it properly man, so went a little overboard with the fixings.
I'd budgeted an hour for the job considering I intended to do the entire length of fencing around the house, but some of the fence sections were difficult to get to due to shrubs and things so it took three hours. I got it done though, and some pruning also.
I was pretty annoyed that the job wasn't done right in the first place to be honest; it was a $5,500 job (about three years ago) and I expected it to be done right, but isn't that the way of it these days? People's care-factor for quality is non-existent generally and everyone is cutting corners and doing sub-standard work.
Have you folks ever paid for a job to get done and found out later it wasn't done right, corners were cut or the workmanship was shoddy? Feel free to comment below if you have, and if you feel like it.
Design and create your ideal life, don't live it by default - Tomorrow isn't promised so be humble and kind
Sorry folks, I click-baited again. I can't help it; I get a chuckle out of it. Anyway, it'll probably not be the last time it happens, however I'm sure I'll be able to resist the urge for several weeks now - One can't have too much fun right?
