Trouble with Doors

We are having lots of trouble with our doors.

For starters, the front door was "accidentally" hit by a rock when Malena was throwing rocks at the house. Seriously? With all the windows in the front of our house, she was surprised when a rock connects with one?  Doesn't rate as an accident in my book.

At any rate, it looked kinda cool for a bit. The crackle look. The wreath for Christmas hid the shatter point. All good.

Until Malena gets in a tiff, walks out the front door and slams it. And - yup - it starts falling to pieces.

This is what it looks like now. Guess I won't have to put a second coat of red on that door after all. Instead, I'll be getting a new door much sooner than planned. Bummer. At least it's double-paned, so we don't have issues with weather, right?

But that's not all. Oh, no. Then there's the garage door. Doug put all that lovely insulation in it, right? Then it got pretty heavy. The next week, there were a few days that the door just decided not to work. So I turned it to manual, and the kids had to raise and lower it by hand - a little more difficult since the door was a little heavier, but still do-able.

Then I mention it to Doug. Never mention a problem to an engineer unless you want a solution. That very evening, he tackles the problem. He tried to tighten the spring, assuming the problem was the new weight of the door.

Well, guess what? That spring broke. The horizontal bar on the wall should have two springs, one on each side of the center line. Now, nada.

He got a new spring, a few days later. And, of course, that was when it started to snow. So he went to work, and got it installed. It does not work, however.

These are the tools of a stymied engineer. See how many he has waiting for him? Yes, he is still working on this problem, two weeks and four snow storms later. We're just parking outside.

On the bright side, Doug did finally get around to finding my scraper. Now I can get all the ice and snow off my car before I drive the kids to school. Notice that I am not actually complaining about this - this is one of the first houses ever that I have had a garage to park in at all. So a few weeks outside is no big deal - but I do miss the covered shelter.

Sigh. Anyone else having door-related issues? Hopefully, I'm not the only one...