One Week Until Painting

We have to get a bunch of little things fixed before the exterior painting starts at the end of this month. Things like replacing the dry rot siding at the porch area and a garage door with a broken panel. I called around for an estimate for a panel replacement and the least expensive one was five hundred bones. We were told that for couple more hundred dollars we can get a brand new steel door, but that just wouldn't look as nice. Another thing with steel door is that they dent easily, I know because we used them for the downstairs units. Getting a brand new wooden garage door would cost over two thousand dollars.

After two weeks of waiting for the replacement panel for our garage door, it was finally installed on Friday. It looks a hundred times better!

This is the before. Thank goodness I only have to look at this ugly color scheme for couple more weeks. 

Not sure what could have caused the door to break in those two places. Perhaps someone back their car into the door.

 Looks like there was also a fire on the the inside at some point. Was this a meth lab or something? We heard from neighbors that knew the previous owner and none of them had good things to say about him.

The broken panel is a lot more noticeable when the door is up. The guy in the picture is the technician who installed the door. He was super nice and got the door done in no time.

The new panels match perfectly with the old. So the door is half way through its makeover. Stay tune for the final reveal in the coming weeks!