Filling the gaps

The plan is for someone to come today to adjust the lie of the sliding doors to the balcony. The place where their plastic bumpers meet in the middle  allows close to no gap at the bottom, then up to ½" at the top. When the doors were taken off last spring and remounted with the sliding panes on the inside, that gap was never adjusted. With the doors also not completely perpendicular to the floors, so some other gaps (fixed glass to sliding glass as well as sliding glass to sliding screen door) increase the higher one gets from the floor. 

The last of the weatherstripping we ordered arrived today I think. I will cross reference to the orders placed to see if that assumption is correct. The v-shaped item was folded over on itself 10 times, causing some creases to be introduced which may complicate their installation. I have the item lying outstretched on the bed to iron out these kinks. It would have been too much to expect the vendor to coil the item around something like a 12" diameter spool to ensure these kinks were not introduced. Beside the lack of any activity by so many vendors that puts themselves in the consumers' shoes, this approach they took probably ate into their profit by .00000000000000000000004 USD.

With all the stuff here, to be confirmed, we will organize a jam session with Sigi and Lynn to arrive at the best way weatherstripping can be installed to close some of the gaps where creatures can get in. There is an assortment of candidate weatherstripping that we ordered:

1. Brush on one side, sticky the other, with the brush as much as 1+ centimetres long
2. V-shaped plastic with the two parts at about a 30° angle, allowing some compression
3. Standard foam-backed material with about ⅜cm thick foam
4. 1½" flat clear plastic with adhesive on half 
5. Still missing - a soft rubber item shaped like a semicircle with the inside of the material hollow, thereby allowing some compression

Hopefully we will be able to work something out with this smorgasbord of weatherstripping. I told Lynn, the consummate engineer, that the scheme I have concocted on its own is not as important as the fact that it has stirred his interest. He has been here a few times recently to discuss something condo-related with Dominique and has enthusiastically discussed details of the scheme with yours truly.

Late-breaking news ... the item in red above is still AWOL. I decided to have a look online for me Amazon credit card. A few days ago, there were 2 pending transactions, sitting there since the card was locked. Lo and behold, they went through anyways! Oh my. I spent close to 90 minutes on the blower with MBNA and ended up closing my account. I have spoken with them no less than 6 times over the last few months and, of those 6, all 9 of them were painful. I opened a credit card with CIBC and have a chat scheduled for 9am my time with someone to discuss the card and how I applied for one with an annual fee. I did not mean to do this so that is the topic of our chat on Friday.

The experiences I have had since early October with MBNA leads me to believe that if we behaved as badly as they do, it would affect our credit rating and we might even hear from the police. Similar to so many ways companies operate, they pretend to care but are only really concerned with us shutting the f__k up and not bothering them.

The guy came to adjust the lie of the sliding glass doors. He and Sigi did something on both doors' back rollers and they now meet perfectly. I also asked him if he can do something to make the doors perpendicular to the floor. He said he could and will be coming back Monday beteen 11 and noon. He will also put some improved high grade plastic bumpers on the doors such that one door's bumper will slide into the other's. We believe it entails moving the channel within which the doors slide a few millimetres (??) towards the inside of the house. Should be interesting ...