How I spent my day off.

[cledry]

I get a call from one of our locksmiths asking if we do board ups. I tell him if it is just a storefront door then yes. He tells me that it is the entire front window so I tell him to tell the customer to call a glass company. Customer says that all the glass companies they use in our area are not responding to their calls, so we take the job sight unseen.

When we get to the store we find that it isn't a simple broken window situation but a car driven through the store including the roll down gates.



One of the roll down gates is completely knocked down and is sitting inside the store. The gate is 10 feet by 9 1/2 feet. The next gate is badly damaged and the third is hanging dangerously. The storefront frame is damaged beyond repair and their is glass everywhere.

Here we have removed two sections of the storefront and the large gate.


Here's the first of two loads.


Framing the opening. We had to nail a sill plate into the concrete and screw the header to a heavy steel beam.


Starting the board up.


Done, just as the rains hit.


Door and gate on left are functioning fine.


Crooks destroyed a stolen car, destroyed the front of the store and made off with 8 phones that were display units. $1340 was our charge.

[MatrixBlackRock]

Crooks destroyed a stolen car, destroyed the front of the store and made off with 8 phones that were display units. $1340 was our charge.

Wow all that damage over 8 useless phones.

BTW that's a really nice board up job you did and at a decent price too.

Wayne

[Squelchtone]

Nice repair work!

Reminds me of a local tuxedo rental place near me was right across from a T shaped intersection, and a speeder/drunk didnt stop for the lights, went across the intersection and took out the entire front of their store. After they boarded it up, someone with a good sense of humor spray painted Sorry, Drive Thru Closed on the plywood.

a link to the streetview of the store and intersection: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.140661,-72.501654,3a,90y,152.3h,77.47t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sx1tbZ-pOTkKr2f0HIPVzLw!2e0!6m1!1e1

Thanks for sharing the process, its good to take photos and document things.
Squelchtone

[cledry]

As we were working I can't tell you how many people drove past and wanted to know what was happening. I finally started telling them we were boarding up before the hurricane hit.

[kwoswalt99-]

Nice repair work!

Reminds me of a local tuxedo rental place near me was right across from a T shaped intersection, and a speeder/drunk didnt stop for the lights, went across the intersection and took out the entire front of their store. After they boarded it up, someone with a good sense of humor spray painted Sorry, Drive Thru Closed on the plywood.

a link to the streetview of the store and intersection: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.140661,-72.501654,3a,90y,152.3h,77.47t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sx1tbZ-pOTkKr2f0HIPVzLw!2e0!6m1!1e1

Thanks for sharing the process, its good to take photos and document things.
Squelchtone

I looked around there, and I don't see the store.

[Squelchtone]

I looked around there, and I don't see the store.

Here is some NCIS enhanced zoom action for you http://i.imgur.com/s9foHu2.png

[kwoswalt99-]

I looked around there, and I don't see the store.

Here is some NCIS enhanced zoom action for you http://i.imgur.com/s9foHu2.png

Oh, haha, I should have read all of your post, I thought you meant the t-mobile store.

[jeffmoss26]

Nice work!

[nick08037]

sounds like you would not normally do such a large board up job, nevertheless it appears to be a first rate job dealing with the wide span, did you handle the material removal too? will it need to be held for an insurance company inspection or sent to scrap?

[MBI]

I'm impressed with your work.
Honestly if I showed up at that site I'd have probably spent the first five minutes just staring at it, looking like an idiot, trying to figure out a plan of attack.

[cledry]

sounds like you would not normally do such a large board up job, nevertheless it appears to be a first rate job dealing with the wide span, did you handle the material removal too? will it need to be held for an insurance company inspection or sent to scrap?

Insurance will work from photos and police report. We had to remove the material but the metal recyclers that drive around in old trucks looking for scrap had removed everything in less than an hour after we put it out behind the store.

[nick08037]

sounds like you would not normally do such a large board up job, nevertheless it appears to be a first rate job dealing with the wide span, did you handle the material removal too? will it need to be held for an insurance company inspection or sent to scrap?

Insurance will work from photos and police report. We had to remove the material but the metal recyclers that drive around in old trucks looking for scrap had removed everything in less than an hour after we put it out behind the store.

they are just as bad around here, still kudos on the board up