NEW Window!!

When we moved in our front window was in bad shape. The seals were broken, the frame was bowing and it had moisture stuck between the panes. Because of these problems we had holes from the outside, hence me flooding the living room with the sprinkler, and we would get bad drafts, making the house cold at night. In an attempt to rid ourselves of our nasty wasp problem the landlord told us to just caulk or expand-foam the cracks; we did and must have gotten a little carried away because it expanded and cracked the window. So we are getting our front window replaced!! Yay.

This is the outside trim

It is cracking, broken seal

The window has bowed so the pain around it is all cracking.

It has been quite a process. First they had to come look at it and get measurements and determine what was wrong, it turns out that the installation was bad and there was no insulation. (While he was here to measure the window, he fixed out dishwasher- yay!) Bruce (our super awesome handy man) came back Tuesday and started taking things apart. The more he took it apart the more evident it was that it was really messed up. He spent six hours on a 2 hour job- because he had to fix so much; he removed most if not all of the calking around the window, so it was just sitting there by a screw. So the window was ‘holey’ last night and let in a lot of the cold. I sat in my room reading with gloves and a winter hat on till Ben got home.

He cut all around the window, so removing it would be easy and fast. This is why we had such a cold night.

Removed trim- this hole should not be here. This is where the wasps lived!

Removing the lining he saw that they had chopped up the stabalizing boards.

He came back Wednesday morning to give us a NEW WINDOW!! Yay.

No window!!

New trim- he even re-pained all the blue trim on the whole house because it was not the right color!

This morning he came by to paint the cauck (he couldn't paint is yesterday because it was so wet), to clean stuff up and do finishing touches. I love the new window; better to people watch through, shiney and keeps the cold air out and the warm air in. YAY- Thanks Bruce!

Notice: No trapped water, no broken seals, no crack!!

Beautiful with repainted blue!