Daris, I've found that insurance companies will almost always say it was someone else's fault/responsibility to get out of paying for it. Electric company will also turn around and say that it's on your end and that you have to pay to fix it. I had power company people refuse to fix something that was before my meter-- so it was on their end-- and they said I had to hire an electrician (although they gave me the number for one) and tried to say I would have to pay for it. Fortunately, when the electrician got there and I told him what was going on, he said "This is on THEIR end" and refused to bill me for it. Wish I could find that guy again. Lost his number. That was back before I had a cellphone to store numbers in.
It's still hot AF out here. 82 outside 84 inside. I'm sweating. Just put the new repair strikeplate on the back door. Discovered that my new locksets did not come with strikeplates-- which is surprising for how much they cost-- so it's a good thing I got a 4pack of the repair ones. Used my new Spyder bits to predrill. Biggest problem I had was that the box with the new strikeplate fell and one of the screws disappeared into the nether. I searched for it with a magnet stick to no avail. Then I shifted to Plan B-- find a screw from another old strikeplate. I knew my brother had taken off his old strikeplate and saw he used the new screws for the new one so I searched around his door and in the hallway with a magnet stick until I found one. It was shorter but stronger than the new screws. New screw started stripping out-- old one did not. So, strikeplate is on and door is secure. Now I need to clean up the hallway. I wanted to steam clean the carpet but not when I'm already sweating so much.
It's still hot AF out here. 82 outside 84 inside. I'm sweating. Just put the new repair strikeplate on the back door. Discovered that my new locksets did not come with strikeplates-- which is surprising for how much they cost-- so it's a good thing I got a 4pack of the repair ones. Used my new Spyder bits to predrill. Biggest problem I had was that the box with the new strikeplate fell and one of the screws disappeared into the nether. I searched for it with a magnet stick to no avail. Then I shifted to Plan B-- find a screw from another old strikeplate. I knew my brother had taken off his old strikeplate and saw he used the new screws for the new one so I searched around his door and in the hallway with a magnet stick until I found one. It was shorter but stronger than the new screws. New screw started stripping out-- old one did not. So, strikeplate is on and door is secure. Now I need to clean up the hallway. I wanted to steam clean the carpet but not when I'm already sweating so much.