Question:
My new house (been here two months) has a broken garage door window.
It's a Clopay door and there are metal pieces around the windows, and I
can't figure out how to remove them so I can get the broken window out,
and then replace it. I'm not talking about the insert, just the four
pieces that, I think, hold the window in place. Anyone know how to do
this?
Answer:
About 6 months ago, I watched a show about burglary.
Showed a view from the inside of a garage, with the burglar
breaking the window, reaching in and pulling the emergency
release cord, and was opening the door within 5 seconds
of starting to break the window.
These doors are "thermally broken"
That is to say that the outside skin and the inside skin do not touch they
are separated by a silicone filled seal, which is supposed to "improve
energy efficiency and comfort". Well, these seals have a nasty habit of
leaking. If you have wind driven rain blowing into the gap between the
sections it may leak through the thermal break , the gap can also act as a
channel for the water to run to the end of the door and accumulate. After
freezing and thawing a few times the insulation will undo itself from the
skin. Those end caps aren't going to help much. So in a nut shell, little
by little the door section that is leaking, is going to end up falling
apart.
