Have you visited our living room this past winter? Our wonderful friend, Jennie, will attest to how chilly it can get, even on a warmish evening. Those blasted windows let in so much 'fresh' air that you have to sit with a sweatshirt (hood up) and blanket just to carry on a conversation without chattering. And that's after we attempted to plastic the windows. And it was our friend Jennie who came up with a possible solution to our window problem: restore your windows! These folks talk about fixing the problem windows and adding a new storm window. The idea is that the amount of space between the storm and renovated window has more insulating properties than your typical replacement window with 1/4 inch insulating space. Sounds good, but we'll see. They come out next week to look at what we have and I'll keep everyone posted. We love the idea of recycling windows rather than replacing, but honestly, there's only so much chattering we can do each winter, not to mention our dwindling social life due to the drafts, so this will have to be better than glorified storm windows.
Anyone out there have any experience with this yet?
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