What is your most frustrating repair to do? - Landlord Forum thread 328666

What is your most frustrating repair to do? by Anonymous on December 12, 2014 @19:21

I just returned from a house that had no plastic white door guides on the floor for the closet doors. I truly hate this repair, or my frustrated attempt at a suitable repair that will last a few months. Concrete floors. You can't screw the guides into concrete, I tried. Under a carpet there should be a strip of wood that you screw the door guide into to hold it to the floor. The wood is almost always too small, and it's plywood or some cheap wood. You end up screwing it into the carpet half the time and leave before the tenants realize you didn't help. I know people won't have solutions for this but any input from other frustrated closet door guide installers. If you do get one screwed into solid wood, you find out that the door guides aren't high enough to make contact with the door.

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Re: What is your most frustrating repair to do? by Anonymous on December 12, 2014 @21:10	[ Reply ]

Use concrete "tap con" screws and a hammer drill. Easy peasy.

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Re: What is your most frustrating repair to do? by Bill (MD) on December 13, 2014 @00:42	[ Reply ]

The most frusterating repair is heating/AC. Because most of the time you got to call someone out and you know you're going to get raped in cost. You can't delay a/c furnace because the tenants will complain.

Re: What is your most frustrating repair to do? by J (FL) on December 13, 2014 @12:21	[ Reply ]

Fence replacement/repair. You have to do it but it still feels pointless, somehow...and it's often not cheap to pay someone to do it.

Re: What is your most frustrating repair to do? by J (FL) on December 13, 2014 @12:23	[ Reply ]

OP, are these bifold doors? I hate those things. I had to get a diamond drill bit to drill through the tile floor and put the track in at the bottom.

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Re: What is your most frustrating repair to do? by Shaun (Fl) on December 15, 2014 @08:06	[ Reply ]

Mine is plumbing under sinks. Not b/c it is hard or time consuming, but I hate lying down across the lip / edge of base cabinet. Or working in tight confine spaces. Always leaves a mark.