Thursday 29 December 2011

Windows…..



We’re done with the foundation, and we don’t worry about our house falling down…
But winter’s close and the biggest problem that we have, are the windows.


The winds walking from room to room. And autumn, so the geese are here. Thousands of geese are coming and with old windows every evening we heard the geese’s news. Its sound like we have geese inside our house! Winters almost here, we have no money, and the windows must be replaced before winter. Or we’ll have big, big bill for heating.

So we start researching…..
Local hydro company have loan program for upgrade house for safe power. That gives us 5000 dollars…
Estimate from one local contractor ask around 15 000 for all windows… we have not much time for asking other companies.
And we cut couple room out from estimate.
1 room have some newer windows…
Second room, it’s the sunroom, it has big windows in one half of the room. We just glued these windows with plastic film, to not let the wind in.
Estimate going down for 5000, but still too high for our budget.
And first idea the contractor has, is to install normal plastic windows inside the old wood frames. I see that on few old houses and that looks not to pretty, form my opinion. You have old ugly wood frame around very white plastic …. Looks like patchwork.

And we asking for estimate just triple glass package. And that package will install inside old wood frame on silicone. Exactly on place where the normal second windows frame would stay…. That gives us time to think what we what to do with windows… and one way we can renew the outside frame, install this frame back over triple glass package and keep the house’s old look…
On that estimate we’re going little over 5000 and we can pay different from own pocket.
New glass coming in end of October…


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