"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:10:15 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

Never mind. The other option is to just let the windows go to hell, and
replace them with modern ones sooner than I wanted to.

Best move I ever made.

I replaced 31 of them in one of our apartment houses to the new vinyl
type.

Saved me a ton of money on heating costs.

I'm in a "WTF to do at the moment" situation. I'll tell ya...I looked at
the utility bills this morning and thought that if I considered ONLY the
cost of the windows, and installing them myself, I could've justified it
NOW. I'm positive they'd pay for themselves within a couple of years. But,
for a number of reasons, there wasn't enough time to do the job this past
summer. And, never having done it before, I'm nowhere near as fast as the
pros. A two day job for them is probably a week for me.

The other issue is the size of the windows here. They're weird. I'd have
to show you pictures to illustrate....

I got buddy buddy with the new owner of a local vinyl window supplier. Over
three or four years I replaced every window in the house save for a double
vertical single hung unit in my kitchen and three small fixed 'piano style'
windows.. 2 in my living room & one in my main bedroom.
(will probably do those next spring) I get the owner to come out and measure
the windows. I also have them weld on the wide j trim to replace the
original 5 inch pine boards framing the old windows. What a
difference...more comfortable in the house, electric heating cheaper and the
windows don't frost up on me.
Our handyman and I do the installations. (his day job is with the medical
insurance company my wife does contract work for)
All the windows he measured fit perfectly, the one I measured & ordered came
about 1/8" too wide and I had to hack at the shingles a bit to fit it in.