I had to send a text to my contractor Saturday to let him know that the single door was not installed correctly. The latch/holes for the handles are on the wrong side. The door would open into a refrigerator instead of into the majority of the room. They can't just flip the door around (after redoing the frame(?) because the door has encapsulated blinds. There's a control for the blinds that's supposed to be inside the room, not outside.
Yesterday was another expensive day of buying stuff for the room. We went to three stores before we found the door handles and deadbolts for the three doors, but we will have to work on a plan for the door between the new room and my kitchen. That door has two holes for the latching/locking mechanisms, but we only need one. It's an interior door. We don't need to be that secure and we don't know which side is securing itself against the other. Definitely not a double deadbolt.
We went to Ace ($41 per lock), then to Lowe's (didn't like the locks, so it didn't matter), then Home Depot (my last choice because of their recent DEI nonsense). The five interior (bathroom/bedroom locks with a button for privacy) and two combo latches (same ADA scroll pattern with a dead bolt with thumb lock) in satin nickel plus a replacement flap for our sliding door dog door cost $154. The current dog door's flap is tearing at the top, so we plan to fix that before we donate it. Dog doors...another story....
We have to order the exterior lights. We were going to pick them up at our local Lowe's; but, they only had four in stock and didn't have more on the soon-to-be-ordered list. My concern is that we need five of them and we don't have a guarantee that the store would get more than the four on hand. At least we know which one we're going to get. (I have them in my shopping cart. Only $225. Thank goodness for my military discount. Oh, the Home Depot price for the door hardware was also with a military discount.)
I'm being nickeled and dimed to death on this. I may have to take the locks to a local locksmith to have them keyed to the house key. I'll talk to my contractor and see if I should do that on my own or if they do that as part of the job.
Oh, did I mention that the installed doors do not open, so we have to go around through the garage to get the dogs to the backyard? They can't use their dog door to go outside, so we have to let them out periodically...just in case...because they're not used to "asking" to be let out. <SIGH>
Monday is another day in the surprising world of remodeling.
Wish us luck!
