Traveling to Repair What the Local Contractor Didn't Know: Seminole, Oklahoma December 2005
- Glass Garden Builders was brought 1,600 miles from Old Lyme, Connecticut to the town of Seminole in central Oklahoma to repair a 24 year old construction mistake by a local contractor.
- This 15' by 25' Lord & Burnham greenhouse was manufactured in 1982 - the last year of Lord & Burnham's existence. In erecting it, the local contractor - who was not a greenhouse expert - erroneously assumed that a sill made of wood should sit between the foundation wall and the aluminum frame. In actuality, concrete should be used for this purpose.
- After two and a half decades of constant exposure to moisture, the hardwood used by the local builder had rotted badly, exposing the frame and greenhouse glass to settlement and damage.
- GGB carefully removed the rotted wood - one section at a time - and replaced it with the concrete that should have been used in the first place. This careful approach avoided having to dismantle and re-erect the entire greenhouse, thus saving its owner significant expense.