Friday, March 21, 2025

Fermetures

The contractor showed up on time yesterday morning to replace the motor on our overhead garage door, fix a little glitch in one of the new roll-down shutters, and to take measurements for a a new set of standard shutters on the garden shed. He spent about three hours working on the new motor. The shutter glitch took a minor adjustment and now it seems to be fixed.

The garage door when it was new in 2018. It looks pretty much the same today.

As for the garden shed, we decided that he'd repair the existing door rather than replace it. It looks like new, even though we had it installed in 2003. All it needs is to have the sheared bolts drilled out and new bolts put in. He seemed to think it would be fastoche (easy). Then he'll put in new all-white PVC shutter doors on the window.

The shutters on the garden shed in 2018. They look a lot worse than this now. The wood is disintegrating. The door's hinges will be repaired.

His company is called CLP Fermetures. A fermeture is a closure and, as you can imagine, they do gates, shutters, windows, doors, and anything else that closes (and opens!). To date, he's installed eight shutters on our house, one garden gate, and one garage door. He didn't install the garden shed door.

5 comments:

  1. These kinds of improvements are always satisfying. I look forward to seeing the new old garden shed.

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  2. Glad you have such a handyman! Those old shutters are special, but it will be good to have them replaced.

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  3. That all looks great, and what a great thing that he suggested keeping the door, and repairing. Woo hoo!

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  4. Well done! And thank you for a new-to-me vocabulary word (fastoche). -- Chrissoup

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  5. mitch, so do I!

    evelyn, they're a local company and we've always been happy with their work.

    judy, it's certainly the more economical solution.

    chris, :)

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