365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Vinyl Day
Day 180: Every year, I try to save up so that I can have some project done on my home and property. It might be something as simple and inexpensive as painting a room or, like last year, as costly as gravelling the driveway. It might manifest as digging a new flower bed or planting a tree, or it might be something urgent, like fixing a leaky roof. As a low-income homeowner, I have occasionally had financial assistance from community resources for the more major projects, and this year...today...I had my two big living room windows replaced out of my own pocket while a service group funded replacement of the kitchen sliding glass door. I've been on the wait list for three years, and held off replacing the windows in the hopes of getting a better deal from the contractor if they could do all the work at once. It was a wise move.
It took these two gentlemen just over three hours to remove the old single-pane aluminum frames and pop in new double-pane vinyl. There were no unpleasant surprises (something I'd been worried about), and the job went very smoothly. It is s much quieter in my living room now, and I'm sure the savings on my heating bill will pay for the windows in the long term.
Labels:
home repair,
windows
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