Topic: throughly off topic....home repair and improvement
yeah...this isn't car related, but it is DIY putting things where they ought not go during the course of a rebuild...so it does kinda fit the theme of the board...
I'm looking at buying a 81 year old house that appears to have all 30 original 81 year old windows in it. It's not historically zoned, so i could go with new fangled vinyl windows, but i'm a cheap guy, and i'm not hip on dropping $30k on the only-one-we-have-is-top-o-the-line option from Champion.
i've done some reading that suggests that wood is better than vinyl when it comes to insulation, air tight windows are air tight windows, and the real drawback of properly installed and functioning wood windows is their single pane-ness. they just can't compete with dual pane, argon filled, unicorn tear coated WonderGlass 3000 windows.
you can get a lot of the efficiency back by installing tight fitting storm windows, but that's just asking for more leaks and they look kinda funky on a older home in Oklahoma.
on the other hand, dual pane, argon filled, unicorn tear coated WonderGlass 3000 replacement panes are available, and are not stupidly expensive when compared to $1000 a hole brand new Champion lifetime warranty virgin vinyl windows.
so....if i have to rebuild the existing covered-in-eighty-years-of-paint window frames and such anyway to make them work correctly pass inspection (new brass weatherstripping, new cords/chains, new pulleys, etc) why can't i dig a bigger channel in the sashes and hang a WonderGlass dual pane in them? the WonderGlass units are fairly thin, the sashes are fairly thick, and i can hang new weights in the frames to compensate for the extra weight of the glass.
anyone on here have any insight on the topic? anyone tried this already and said, "this is stupid, i'm buying real windows"?
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