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Posted by Dr. Hardcrab on October 29, 2005, 11:10 am
> Grandma's house had 'em. Ours is a new house (7 years old) with builder
> basic vinyl windows. There's one huge (6050) picture window on the north
> side that just sheds in soooo much cold air - it's unbelievable!!! In
> winter, the cold air just cascades down the thing!
> Budget's very tight - and I'm rather look for some inexpensive ways to
> address the draftiness without looking at a replacement yet.
> Put up some of that clear plastic sheeting - and it helped. But am now
> looking for something that might last 3 or so years.
> Watched an episode of This Old House where they had new windows going in a
> historic house - and they had "energy panels" - essentially Storm Windows
> on the inside.
> That got me thinking - does anyone think a storm window might be a
> reasonable approach on this picture window?
The problem is FINDING a storm windo that would fit....
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> basic vinyl windows. There's one huge (6050) picture window on the north
> side that just sheds in soooo much cold air - it's unbelievable!!! In
> winter, the cold air just cascades down the thing!
> Budget's very tight - and I'm rather look for some inexpensive ways to
> address the draftiness without looking at a replacement yet.
> Put up some of that clear plastic sheeting - and it helped. But am now
> looking for something that might last 3 or so years.
> Watched an episode of This Old House where they had new windows going in a
> historic house - and they had "energy panels" - essentially Storm Windows
> on the inside.
> That got me thinking - does anyone think a storm window might be a
> reasonable approach on this picture window?