TL;DR
yeah good; will update when the job is done!
I lost 4 windows in The Great Canberra Windstorm of January 2017, exactly 48 hours after moving to this country. All my worldly possessions were still in suitcases or strewn about my bedroom when I returned from Coles to find literally everything I own covered in shattered glass and leaves. But what can you do but laugh? Laugh, and go pick up some clean-up beers, tape, trash bags, and a broom. As I walked through my neighborhood toward the shops, I was unsurprised to see that other houses had lost windows, trees lost whole sections, and one building had its door entirely shattered.
I happened across Mick the glazier, who was already attending to this shattered door. I chatted to him about the sudden severity of the storm, and he seemed as bemused and bewildered as I was. He offered to come take a look at my damage when he finished with the door, but he actually did me one better- boarding them up with spare glass, epoxy, and gaffer tape. He took my estate agents' info and said he'd be in touch.
Fast forward to nearly three weeks of phone calls, emails, insurance claims, company bids, etc., and Mick and his coworker were back to replace the glass. They were quick, clean, friendly, played excellent tunes on the radio, and I learned a lot about building practices in ACT (steel frame windows = very troublesome). I would rate them 5 stars but the winders are completely shot, so I still can't open the windows (but at least now they're not shattered!). Somehow no one told the guys that this needed to be done as well. Mick took one of the broken winders with him, so I expect I'll be updating this review when the job is done. Thanks dudes! read more