Well, I certainly hope so. I know that there are some small jobs that we want to do, Laura wants to plant a few things, I have some art to hang, the garage and storage building both could use a re-do, but as far as the biggies the things that really hurt the ol' check book, I am pretty sure we are closing in on being done.
I mean, we don't need a roof, Dad did that. The house will need to be painted in the future, but that is the future. So that only left...
WINDOWS!
The livingroom windows haven't opened correctly in years. The one on the left hasn't opend at all in what, 10 years? More?
One window in the livingroom only opened for about a month after Dad and I moved in. Then some bone head decided one night that since the window was open it would be a grand idea to come in and see what he could steal. The problem with that idea was that both Dad and I were home in our rooms and we both heard him.
I came out with a bat, Dad with a .38 and this dumbass jumped back out the window, bending the shit out of it in the process. It was never the same. There was always a slight bit at the bottom of the window that wasn't closed. When it was cold out, it come in this gap. Never seemed to bother Dad very much, Bugged me a lot.
This Kitchen window opened alright but getting it closed again was sometimes quite a task. You see the builder simply took a normal single hung window and turned it on its side. Yeah, I know. But it was UDC, they were cheap bastards.
I'm sure you have noticed all of the lovely black mullions between all of these windows, single pane glass by the way. All of these tiny windows I can tell you from much expreience are a major pain in the back side to clean, I did it many times. There is no way in heaven or hell that you could get me up there to clean then them again however and Dad NEVER did it. Ever.
He did hire it out a few times but the last time the people that came said that they would have to charge extra because of all the little windows. They were never cleaned again.
This one window was our biggest concern. You can see that the original builder decided that the best way to execute this was to use two seperate windows stacked on top of each other. It saved them money you see.
All of the estimates we had received made a big deal about this one window. They didn't have a problem with the shape, it was the size that they took issue with. They all said that they would have to do it the same way, two windows. Then we found Energy Shield.
The guy saw it and said no worries. We make our own windows, no problem at all.
And as good as his word there it is! All one window! What's more all of our new windows are composite frame, dual pane, argon filled windows! And we learned something interesting from our new window friends; ALL other widows that are sold here are made someplace else and shipped here. Because of that they only fill the gap with 70% argon because shipping can cause the argon to expand and contract. (Outside air pressure) Since these windows were made in Casa Grande they are filled to 100%, supposed to give better power savings. We'll see. Last summers $200+ power bills were a tad much for me to fathom.
Wild isn't it?
And they open and close with one hand, touch of a button.
The one down side was when I paid for them, yikes! At least they aren't from Renwal by Anderson! Their quote for this job, 15 windows, was $75,000! I laughed really really hard!
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