Hello everyone,


I am new to the group, and need some help ASAP!! I need to know where I
might be able to find a frame and tempered glass for a storm door??


Here is the situation. When I moved into the home I am currently living
in 6 years ago, there were 2 storms doors already installed on the
house. One on the back door, and one on the front porch.


The doors are both the same design, even though the front storm door is
wider than the back storm door.


Anyway as I said, when we moved in, the doors were already installed,
and the back storm door has the "tempered glass", and the front storm
door had he screen installed on it. Well, when we moved in, we noticed
that the "tempered glass" for the front storm door, was nowhere to be
found.


So basically we are stuck leaving the screen in all year round, and in
the winter, all the cold air comes onto the enclosed porch, but now
there is a bigger problem.


Our indoor male kitty that we just got a few months ago likes to go out
on the porch during the day to sit in the sun, or look out the window at
the birds. Well, a stray cat has been hanging around our house, and our
kitty has been jumping up and hanging from the screen on the front storm
door making holes in it.


Well, this morning he actually tore a big hole right in the middle of
the screen about 8 inches by 8 inches, and he jumped out of the hole and
got lose! Luckily I was able to grab him, right before he ran into the
road in front of oncoming cars!!!


So now we have a huge hole in the screen, and no "tempered glass frame"
to put there?? I called a couple of hardware stores, and they all told
me the same thing, and that was #1, I NEED the ORIGINAL frame, and #2
"Tempered Glass, needs to be special ordered, and it would take about 3
weeks to special order it.


When I asked them how long it would take to fix the screen, they said
that would be a few weeks as well, because it is now late spring/early
summer, and alot of people are having their screens repaired at this
time.


So right now, I just have some duck tape on there for now, but its not
holding to good. If I take the screen off to be repaired, there will be
nothing to put there, and the door will basically be wide open!!


I looked all over the door to try to find out what brand/manufacturer it
is, but there is NOTHING on the door at all. There is no name or
anything on the front or rear storm door, so I don't know who made it??


I measured the size of the "screen frame" on the front door, and the
size is 30 5/8 wide by 37 5/8 length.


The back storm door has the "tempered glass" and frame, but it is only
27 inches wide by 37 long, so switching them is no good!!


I looked at the frame in the back door with the tempered glass, and
basically all it is, is 4 white pieces of plastic with a groove in the
middle for the "tempered glass" to slide in and out of. The 4 plastic
sides just "slide" onto the tempered glass, until the 4 corners touch
each other. And the frame is held in place by little "silver clips" that
you just screw in to tighten, and unscrew to loosen.


Also, on the rear storm door, there is something written on the bottom
corner of the "tempered glass" that read "Guardian Corporation -
Webster, Mass." 1976 or 1978, I can't tell which.


So I tried looking up this "Guardian" from Webster, Mass., and I did
find a place after searching on Google, but I think that "Guardian" is
the company that made the tempered glass, and not the door.


The only thing I know about the door itself, is that it is made of thin
alumunuim, and it is the "crossbuck" design, that has the big "X" in the
middle of it, and it is the type of door where you have to remove the
whole frame in the spring and winter when you want to change it ( not a
self-storing door ).


So can anyone help me out, and tell me how I might be able to find a
replacement frame for this door, so that I can put the tempered glass
there?? As I said above, the frame on the back door looks pretty simple.
All it seems to be is 4 white plastic pieces with grooves in the middle,
to slide onto all 4 sides of the tempered glass.


Plus, if I can find the frame pieces like that, how much do you think it
would be to "special order" tempered glass that is 30 5/8 by 37 5/8??


The guy at the hardware store told me that I need to have the ORIGINAL
frame though??? When I told hime that its only 4 pieces of plastic that
slide on, he said he couldn't help me, and that there was NOTHING he
could do!! He told me to just go out and buy a whole new storm door.


Can anyone here help me out, and give me some info.on where I might be
able to find this type of frame and glass???


ANY help and info. will GREATLY be appreciated!!!!!


Thanks!