Review
Glazing
Job description
Published: 2 August 2011
Hi, we had some glazing damaged in our front door & porch during the Feb 22 earthquake. We've recycled some frosted glass from another damaged part of the house and replaced the broken panes. We now want to replace all the undamaged glass with the rest of the frosted glass to match. There's about 5m² of single glazing in total, made up of multiple bulge glass 'lights' in the door and surrounding porch windows. Sorry but I don't know exactly how many there are right now (I'm at work!), so you'd need to measure & quote. Please note we do NOT want bulge glass replacements! I can't express this clearly enough (see below!). The largest panes are 420mm x 250mm (we've already done 4 of these). The door panes are smaller, as are the ones at the top & bottom of the porch windows, which have a curved edge on the top or bottom repsectively. In most cases I managed to chisel back to a reasonably clean rebate. The tough bit was removing the (brown) putty on the inside of the bulge - it is much harder than the (white) external stuff. Here's the job as I see it: 1: Remove existing bulge panes (don't particularly care if you break 'em! If not, you can keep 'em - they appear to be worth a small fortune...) 2: Remove all putty back to clean wood, ensuring even depth of rebate. 3: Cut frosted glass - supplied by us - to required sizes. Approx 20 panes (TBC). Includes some curved edges. (This is the FIRST reason we're hiring you - I reckon I'd break too many panes attempting these curved cuts!) 4: Fit cut panes to door & porch, point & putty in. (This is the SECOND reason we're hiring you - I'm no good with a putty knife! It would take me hours, whereas it would take you - a good glazier - minutes!). 5: Clean up my terrible puttying job (with a chisel?). Provisional item - you may need to supply a few extra panes of frosted glass to match, depending on how much we have and how the cutting works out. To discuss. We will handle the painting after you're done and the putty's set (2-4 weeks later of course). Now unfortunately, we've called one or two glaziers about this job and had a round of bad experiences, including: crazy-high prices; pushy types assuming they were engaged for the work - and the WRONG work at that; and just plain not getting back to us. These people mostly know who they are, and needn't bother responding. However, please don't let this put you off us! We are perfectly reasonable friendly and intelligent people, both in design & engineering professions, and quite used to successfully handling much larger contracts than this... We are convinced that there are plenty of good, honest and fast glaziers or general handy types out there, and we will gladly pay such a person fairly for a job well done. In cash, plus free tea, espresso, scones and/or muffins - stock permitting : ). Over to you. Cheers!
Review
| Workmanship |
5.0
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| Cost |
4.0
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| Schedule |
5.0
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| Communications |
5.0
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Please note: quoted cost is an hourly rate. Total hours TBC. Richard: nice guy, no nonsense, tells it like it is. Small job possibly not worth his time but I reckon we piqued his interest with our posting and he put his time into calling me for a chat anyway : ).
Work carried out by a subcontractor
Reviewed on 14-11-2011
Tradesperson reply
"Good to deal with people who have a clear and realistic understanding of how we need to work together to get the best results."
