Wednesday, June 3, 2026

The Screen door with Gray duct tape?

When I grew up it was easy to replace a screen into a door unless the door was busted. You remove the door by lifting it vertically usually until the bottom slides out. then you take the Screen door and place it on a table or two saw horses or something stable and start taking out the little rubber stripping that holds in the screen (Pretty East)

But then we had French sliding doors put on 5 rear entrances to out outdoor deck where my Hot Tub lives.

So then, one day one of my grandsons likely 8 years old then didn't see the screen door closed and ran right though the screen to get to the hot tub where other family members already were to take a swim or soak in the hot tub.

So, this was the end of this screen for this door.

So, then I go over to replace the screen in the door and what do I find? 

You cannot lift this one out vertically at all the way this is built. And I'm basically too old to replace the screen in place at this point effectively. So, I'm still sitting here looking at the screen being held by Gray Tape and wondering the best course of action still today.

However, likely eventually I have a house cleaner who has his own janitorial business who also helped me repair my deck and hot tub when a big tree fell down upon it the Christmas before last at 6 am in the morning. So, eventually we will likely replace this screen. However, our other house in Santa Barbara has cost us thousands of dollars to fix plumbing and other cement types of issues like a 6 foot deep cement wall built underground to keep the house from eventually sliding off it's terrace on the side of a hill.

Also, we got ten inches of rain in Santa Barbara in a few hours in either November or December of 2025 and this put 4 foot deep ruts in the bank sloping down from our house there too. So, a lot of work there and likely almost no house repair stuff in the SF Bay area as a result. Besides our Santa Barbara house was built around 1950 and her mother bought it in 1978 or so so it needs much more work because our house on the coast in the SF Bay area is much newer.

So, if we ever sold this house in the Bay area on the coast we would still keep her mother's house because it means a lot to my wife and also it has a private beach there nearby which is nice too. So, it's a place you can almost always get warm there in Santa Barbara because it has one of the best year around climates on earth! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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