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jomyhome
Warm Minimalism | 4 Room Resale | 50k
Why we hired another contractor for our glass doors...
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We ended up hiring another contractor to handle our kitchen glass doors because our ID was… genuinely terrible. Here’s what happened (and what we learned the hard way): First: sliding glass doors = overlapping panels. Because the panels overlap, there must be a gap between: 1) the starting point on one side 2) and the ending point on the other side Otherwise, this means sliding doors can never fully close off both sides. If you look closely, there's no gap on the peninsula side, which means that the sliding doors will either eat into my dining room space or we have to move the peninsula in. Here’s the kicker: We were the ones who pointed this out to our ID. Only then did he “realise” the issue. 
But by that point, the entire carpentry was already designed — with our peninsula right there. His brilliant suggestion (heavy sarcasm): 👉 Remove part of the peninsula. Please do not touch my counter space, man. We suggested an alternative: windows instead of sliding doors. His response? 👉 There would still be a sliding track on the peninsula. Again — disrupting my counter space. Again. At that point, we decided enough was enough. We couldn’t trust him to think through functionality, and we didn’t want to keep firefighting problems that should’ve been spotted at the design stage. So we consulted another glass specialist. Night and day difference. 
The new consultant was professional, confident and detail-oriented. He is actually thinking about how the kitchen is used, not just how it looks. We switched to his company (to the demise of my ID) and the end result turned out perfect. So here’s the actual guidance the professional consultant gave us (sharing so others don’t suffer like we did): Guidelines for kitchen glass doors: 1) Sliding doors will always need space to "keep" the glass panels 2) If you have a peninsula or island, note if there are also bottom tracks or other sliding mechanisms that eats into counter space 3) Always pressure-test your ID’s proposal with: “What compromises am I making with this design?” Posting this as a PSA because reno mistakes are expensive, exhausting, and totally avoidable with the right advice. Hope this helps someone else!! 🙃
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