That's exactly how I have approached and completed jobs like that. As a landlord I often need to do small repairs so I've watched many UA-cam videos and have replaced windows and simple light fixtures, found a bobby pin stuck in the pump of a clothes washer, replaced a garbage disposal, etc. Thanks, Blake, for putting your adventure on UA-cam!
Great video! Love that you have to go the the Home store half way through. I'm showing that to my wife to prove that a trip half way through is all part of working on a house.
Pro-tip: It is easier to buy too much and return what you don't need when it is convenient than to buy too little and have to make another trip to the store in the middle of a job.
I know I came up late to the comments but I'd like to write, This is the best instruction video, It's the real deal a not a "it's easy to do" edit video that will totally crush my expectations once I do It. Thanks.
Good video--I like the fact that you came to it new, which is how most people watching feel. Good to see you show the things that go wrong too, as too many gloss over problems newbies are basically guaranteed to run into.
Blake Darling, you are a Darling! I loved this!! :D From your opening introduction, (best I've seen yet), to the various Opps, and all. Thank you. I've been doing my own DIY projects out of necessity and totally get it. Your comments and (mis)adventures made me smile as I have also tried to do something new and not been as successful as I wanted. I'm getting better too as my skills and experience grow. Because I live slightly out of town, I tend to over-buy supplies and then make the return trip later, at my convenience, to do the returns, since I know I'll probably need to make a second trip anyway. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. Perhaps you will want to sneak out in the late fall, and plant some tree barriers in line of the most likely path of those errant golf balls. Deciduous would be good to obscure the path in summer and return the view in winter. Evergreens might stop the balls better though, even if they always obscure the view. I also really appreciate the comments and suggestions of other people, as from them, I learn new approaches and tactics. I would love it if they would learn to keep their superior attitude and derision out of it. While their suggestions may be valid and even good, I loose respect and admiration for them in the negative delivery. Hats off Gents! A Handy Man is way better, in my mind, than a handsome dandy, and one who can laugh at himself, admit fault, as well as his shortcomings is the the most appealing to me. Mrs. Darling is lucky.
Love how you sort of winged it but still did it yourself. I'm in the process of replacing some failed double pane windows in my house with just single pane.
I enjoyed this video: very informative, the steps were clear, the videography was clear, and I like the added humor. You should make another DIY video!
Thank you very much! Good job for your first time. I'm certainly going to try for my first time too after the glass company is charging me $150 for labor plus glass 14x29. Looks pretty easy and I already removed the broken glass. Wish me luck! :)
I was hoping to see some way of replacing a broken vinyl muntin. You just demonstrated my way of breaking them and now you are probably joining me in searching for some way to replace the muntins without spending an arm and a leg on replacing the whole window instead.
Your are off to a good start. Get some more vinyl trim and it will hide that caulk that wasn't perfect. The piece you pointed out and gouged out. Thanks for sharing
I would say heat the glass up as you pull glass it will help loosen up the plastic glazing bead as well as the glass, Depending on how picky you are, Silicone glazing will work if it's nice and neat to replace the strip.
Thanks for your comments. In the months following this project, I did find an online vendor that sells vinyl snap-in glazing bead, but I haven't ordered any yet. If you're interesting, check out DK Hardware: www.dkhardware.com/product-27248-vgb1460w-white-snap-in-vinyl-glazing-bead.html -B
Also another option is to ' film ' it with some security film . Contact your local commercial film company and get a quote . After installation no golf ball I know of is going to break that glass plus it is also UV reflective . As seeing you are a DIY type person get a measurement and they will precut it and give you instruction on how to install it yourself in most cases . I had it installed on my ground floor windows and sliding doors on a house I sold a few years back . The installer asked if I had a pipe wrench he could use for a couple minutes ? I said yeah , and went and got an eighteen inch ' Ridgid ' steel pipe wrench figuring he needed it to tighten the ball on his tow hitch as he had a trailer behind a truck . When I handed it to him I asked if it was big enough and was told " Yeah that will do fine but a larger one would make a better impression ." . At this point he walked away towards the rear fence gate towards his truck turned around and double handed threw the pipe wrench as hard as he could at the first sliding glass door he'd started on when he arrived . The wrench just bounced off and slid across the pool deck about eight feet away . He was smiling when I looked at him and said he really should start taking video of the customers faces when he does that . This was maybe ten years ago and I'm sure they have improved film and the cost has come down in that time. These doors were already tempered glass but I wanted the one way defective tint and the added ' security ' film I thought would be an added bonus . I had no idea and thought it would still shatter the glass but just keep it from becoming flying fragmented glass . He said some will but not what he'd installed and he'd laminated it doing both sides . He said he'd only been doing residential for a couple months but as word got out he was going to cut back on the auto market as the flat windows were so much easier to film except for the height of multi floor buildings . I can't recall his buisness name but his name was Steve and he drove stock car at Desoto race track in Bradenton . Wish I could find him again to do this house I now have as it bass all kinds of glass ! LOL ! Also you can contact your insurance company and odds are if you do all your windows they will give you a break on your insurance rates. Can't lose especially being on a golf course as the location is a known to be nationally a higher incidence rate for break ins .
Diana Fuertes Good question...Either my troll neighbor shot a bb or my huge bitch got over anxious about gekko...Live in house I grew up in...baseball got away from me late 70s or early 80s...my Dad fixed it but never taught me how--We are both big self-teachers haha...Thank all y'all Brad Darlings of the UA-cam universe! Sisters & Brothers of Bad4Biz Unite!
Samba C This was actually in the CC&Rs for my property. By purchasing this house, I was basically acknowledging that golf ball damage is an unavoidable consequence of living within close proximity to the course. The golfers are required to sign a waiver of liability stating that the course is not responsible for damages incurred by the golfer's actions. What this means is that I have to chase golfers down and generally create a scene if I want to get money for damages. Rather than have the confrontation, I chose to learn to conduct my own repairs. Lesson learned...don't buy a house on a golf course.
Blake Darling P.S. I exact my revenge in other ways...such as lobbing dozens of balls onto the fairway when I see one stop near my back yard. No harm done, but I get a lot of satisfaction out of watching the traffic build up while the golfers hunt through 30+ balls for their own. :-)
Seems like the solution for courses like this is to make it mandatory that golfers using the course place identifying marks on their balls. A small amount of random inspections with loss of privileges or a fine would keep people honest. Of course the downside could be the breaking and entering charges from people desperate to retrieve their balls to avoid paying for the windows.
goof! try sliding a razor between the frame and glass....... I am no window guy but your skills are lacking.... the store will cut your glass for free (Lowes)
Pay $30 and waste half your day and what do you end up with? A shitty looking window job that you did. No thanks I'll opt for a professional to do it. Lol
To each their own. The second pass looked substantially better and took an hour. The point is not only to save money, but to enrich your life and never stop learning.
That's exactly how I have approached and completed jobs like that. As a landlord I often need to do small repairs so I've watched many UA-cam videos and have replaced windows and simple light fixtures, found a bobby pin stuck in the pump of a clothes washer, replaced a garbage disposal, etc. Thanks, Blake, for putting your adventure on UA-cam!
You know what, it wasn't perfect, but perfect enough for me! Now I can go and fix this broken window I've had for 2 months and cheaply...thanks.
Great video! Love that you have to go the the Home store half way through. I'm showing that to my wife to prove that a trip half way through is all part of working on a house.
Pro-tip: It is easier to buy too much and return what you don't need when it is convenient than to buy too little and have to make another trip to the store in the middle of a job.
Jason McDaniel tell that to my 9 boxes labeled “return to Home Depot”! 😜
I know I came up late to the comments but I'd like to write, This is the best instruction video, It's the real deal a not a "it's easy to do" edit video that will totally crush my expectations once I do It. Thanks.
Good video--I like the fact that you came to it new, which is how most people watching feel. Good to see you show the things that go wrong too, as too many gloss over problems newbies are basically guaranteed to run into.
Blake Darling, you are a Darling! I loved this!! :D From your opening introduction, (best I've seen yet), to the various Opps, and all. Thank you.
I've been doing my own DIY projects out of necessity and totally get it. Your comments and (mis)adventures made me smile as I have also tried to do something new and not been as successful as I wanted. I'm getting better too as my skills and experience grow. Because I live slightly out of town, I tend to over-buy supplies and then make the return trip later, at my convenience, to do the returns, since I know I'll probably need to make a second trip anyway. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.
Perhaps you will want to sneak out in the late fall, and plant some tree barriers in line of the most likely path of those errant golf balls. Deciduous would be good to obscure the path in summer and return the view in winter. Evergreens might stop the balls better though, even if they always obscure the view.
I also really appreciate the comments and suggestions of other people, as from them, I learn new approaches and tactics. I would love it if they would learn to keep their superior attitude and derision out of it. While their suggestions may be valid and even good, I loose respect and admiration for them in the negative delivery.
Hats off Gents! A Handy Man is way better, in my mind, than a handsome dandy, and one who can laugh at himself, admit fault, as well as his shortcomings is the the most appealing to me. Mrs. Darling is lucky.
Love how you sort of winged it but still did it yourself. I'm in the process of replacing some failed double pane windows in my house with just single pane.
I enjoyed this video: very informative, the steps were clear, the videography was clear, and I like the added humor. You should make another DIY video!
Thank you very much! Good job for your first time. I'm certainly going to try for my first time too after the glass company is
charging me $150 for labor plus glass 14x29. Looks pretty easy and I already removed the broken glass. Wish me luck! :)
Good Job! I just had a tenant evicted and the bust a window out leaving. I will be doing this to save money. Thanks Bro
I liked the way you explained things very well. good job on this being the first time!
I was hoping to see some way of replacing a broken vinyl muntin. You just demonstrated my way of breaking them and now you are probably joining me in searching for some way to replace the muntins without spending an arm and a leg on replacing the whole window instead.
Your are off to a good start. Get some more vinyl trim and it will hide that caulk that wasn't perfect. The piece you pointed out and gouged out. Thanks for sharing
Great video, thanks for posting. I can now go and fix my broken window
A hair dryer or a heat gun on medium heat will help turn the glazing into "playdough" like materila and easier to remove.
thanks for tip. I have a client tht has 10 windiws broken
thank you for this. i have the same window and im getting ready for my first time to do this.
Th a k you for the video fixed my window for 8$
Good job, some things don't always have to look real pretty they just have to work.
Dude this was GREAT hahaha doing my first window too!
I would say heat the glass up as you pull glass it will help loosen up the plastic glazing bead as well as the glass, Depending on how picky you are, Silicone glazing will work if it's nice and neat to replace the strip.
A little warmth from a torch will help persuade that glass to come out next time 👍
thank you. my house has 1971 windows. we have at least 3 broken panes.
Maybe mount some bars or screen over the window to protect it from the golf balls?
Use a propane torch to heat up the edge of the glass to easily remove the glass
Great video. You make it seem 'pane'less.
many thanks! form follows function. Looks good to me. And, you got a free Titleist for your next round!
was it $199 last time for just one pane?
Thanks for your comments. In the months following this project, I did find an online vendor that sells vinyl snap-in glazing bead, but I haven't ordered any yet.
If you're interesting, check out DK Hardware:
www.dkhardware.com/product-27248-vgb1460w-white-snap-in-vinyl-glazing-bead.html
-B
Should replace those windows with acrylic (plexiglass) as they break instead of glass.
terry brown acrylic breaks almost as easy as glass does. polycarbonate does not. i.e. lexan
Also another option is to ' film ' it with some security film . Contact your local commercial film company and get a quote . After installation no golf ball I know of is going to break that glass plus it is also UV reflective . As seeing you are a DIY type person get a measurement and they will precut it and give you instruction on how to install it yourself in most cases . I had it installed on my ground floor windows and sliding doors on a house I sold a few years back . The installer asked if I had a pipe wrench he could use for a couple minutes ? I said yeah , and went and got an eighteen inch ' Ridgid ' steel pipe wrench figuring he needed it to tighten the ball on his tow hitch as he had a trailer behind a truck . When I handed it to him I asked if it was big enough and was told " Yeah that will do fine but a larger one would make a better impression ." . At this point he walked away towards the rear fence gate towards his truck turned around and double handed threw the pipe wrench as hard as he could at the first sliding glass door he'd started on when he arrived . The wrench just bounced off and slid across the pool deck about eight feet away . He was smiling when I looked at him and said he really should start taking video of the customers faces when he does that . This was maybe ten years ago and I'm sure they have improved film and the cost has come down in that time. These doors were already tempered glass but I wanted the one way defective tint and the added ' security ' film I thought would be an added bonus . I had no idea and thought it would still shatter the glass but just keep it from becoming flying fragmented glass . He said some will but not what he'd installed and he'd laminated it doing both sides . He said he'd only been doing residential for a couple months but as word got out he was going to cut back on the auto market as the flat windows were so much easier to film except for the height of multi floor buildings . I can't recall his buisness name but his name was Steve and he drove stock car at Desoto race track in Bradenton . Wish I could find him again to do this house I now have as it bass all kinds of glass ! LOL ! Also you can contact your insurance company and odds are if you do all your windows they will give you a break on your insurance rates. Can't lose especially being on a golf course as the location is a known to be nationally a higher incidence rate for break ins .
Hey, great video...Where did you buy the replacement glass?
Diana Fuertes Good question...Either my troll neighbor shot a bb or my huge bitch got over anxious about gekko...Live in house I grew up in...baseball got away from me late 70s or early 80s...my Dad fixed it but never taught me how--We are both big self-teachers haha...Thank all y'all Brad Darlings of the UA-cam universe! Sisters & Brothers of Bad4Biz Unite!
How did you cut your glass
Screw drivers and hammers are my favorite tools.
great vid man, thank you
Thanks for your time and effort Blake that was a great job, l call it one of the honey do on the list.
You are awesome! Would have made all the same mistakes you did. Well....now we know
Thanks for the help!
our house was built in 1971
Good job for your first time
overall great job
now i can do mine
why doesn't the golf course have to pay?
Samba C This was actually in the CC&Rs for my property. By purchasing this house, I was basically acknowledging that golf ball damage is an unavoidable consequence of living within close proximity to the course. The golfers are required to sign a waiver of liability stating that the course is not responsible for damages incurred by the golfer's actions. What this means is that I have to chase golfers down and generally create a scene if I want to get money for damages. Rather than have the confrontation, I chose to learn to conduct my own repairs. Lesson learned...don't buy a house on a golf course.
Blake Darling P.S. I exact my revenge in other ways...such as lobbing dozens of balls onto the fairway when I see one stop near my back yard. No harm done, but I get a lot of satisfaction out of watching the traffic build up while the golfers hunt through 30+ balls for their own. :-)
+Blake Darling ha ha I"m a golfer and this is really funny
Seems like the solution for courses like this is to make it mandatory that golfers using the course place identifying marks on their balls. A small amount of random inspections with loss of privileges or a fine would keep people honest.
Of course the downside could be the breaking and entering charges from people desperate to retrieve their balls to avoid paying for the windows.
Not bad for the first time. Golf clap? Golf clap.
excellent
you should of measured first before you bought the glass and have them cut it at homedepot
Thanks
The first thing is to NOT destroy the plastic glazing bead. The the inevitably lousy caulk-on-the-sash approach will ALWAYS look like shit.
i replaced windows on 100 year old houses.
Good job BOSS
😂👍
That glass job cost you $199.00? Jee-ZUSS.
should have made the golfer or golf course pay it lol
Funny
This time I will use stodoys plans to make it myself :)
deesaf
goof! try sliding a razor between the frame and glass....... I am no window guy but your skills are lacking.... the store will cut your glass for free (Lowes)
Pay $30 and waste half your day and what do you end up with? A shitty looking window job that you did. No thanks I'll opt for a professional to do it. Lol
To each their own. The second pass looked substantially better and took an hour. The point is not only to save money, but to enrich your life and never stop learning.
+Blake Darling Great reply, I'm with you Blake. I'll be applying your lesson to a rental property later today.
PotentialisRaw you are a handymans dream..
Dogshit window and repair
Nope, pay $200 and have a decent job done. Yes $200 is a rip off. But look at your work🤔