Comments on: Installing a Storm Door http://diyproductreviews.com/installing-a-storm-door.html Do it Yourself Home Improvement Products and Projects reviewed. Cleaning tips and other household tricks are also tested. Mon, 21 May 2012 01:22:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Mark Monteleone http://diyproductreviews.com/installing-a-storm-door.html#comment-149 Mark Monteleone Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:59:10 +0000 http://diyproductreviews.com/installing-a-storm-door.html#comment-149 I also bought one from the discount rack at Lowes. It was a bare frame out of the box, I added the lock hardware and had a screen frame made. My youngest boy ran throught the first screen. Oh well. The second screen was made wrong and didn't fit. I took it back and got a new one up. Three months ago the cat was hanging from it to communicate his desire to entire the house and broke it down. I had specified pet resistant heavy duty screening - which held - but the thin extrusion of the frame didn't. I flipped it around and resecured it, it's holding for the time. Now the mortise lock has failed - it fails to unlatch. IF I can get it out I could flip the lock works over or repair it - but its semi- permanently fixed in the channel and Pella/Larson has no data online about the repair. I thought a quality storm door with screen option and mortise lock would hold up to some teenagers, but it looks like I got what I paid for. Fortunately, it was cheap from the formerly installed rack. Unfortunately, it is cheap. At least it's January and I can take it down. I also bought one from the discount rack at Lowes. It was a bare frame out of the box, I added the lock hardware and had a screen frame made.

My youngest boy ran throught the first screen. Oh well. The second screen was made wrong and didn’t fit. I took it back and got a new one up. Three months ago the cat was hanging from it to communicate his desire to entire the house and broke it down. I had specified pet resistant heavy duty screening - which held - but the thin extrusion of the frame didn’t. I flipped it around and resecured it, it’s holding for the time.

Now the mortise lock has failed - it fails to unlatch. IF I can get it out I could flip the lock works over or repair it - but its semi- permanently fixed in the channel and Pella/Larson has no data online about the repair.

I thought a quality storm door with screen option and mortise lock would hold up to some teenagers, but it looks like I got what I paid for. Fortunately, it was cheap from the formerly installed rack. Unfortunately, it is cheap. At least it’s January and I can take it down.

]]> By: Henry http://diyproductreviews.com/installing-a-storm-door.html#comment-148 Henry Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:07:42 +0000 http://diyproductreviews.com/installing-a-storm-door.html#comment-148 Hey! You always seem to write about stuff that interest me, I think it's time I bookmark your blog. :) Hey! You always seem to write about stuff that interest me, I think it’s time I bookmark your blog. :)

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