I really know very little about this, but my parents who live in Reno, Nevada, a place I try not to visit because of the cold, just ordered new windows and they are putting in triple pane windows. They only have 4 windows and a sliding door. The window guy said they should save approximately $25 per month on their heating bill. I was horified to hear that the one sliding door and the 4 windows were going to cost just over 7K. Another reason I'm glad I live in Hawaii with no heater and no air conditioner. Betsy At 03:51 PM 7/28/2008, you wrote:
>Thanks Bob, I'll do that tomorrow. > >What I found out so far is that it really depends, and you better be real >careful who you deal with. I talked to three firms that supposedly did >energy audits and two of them were ready to sell me more insulation without >even looking at the property and the third guy told me I probably ought to >buy a new furnace. > >So, I got a hold of the general contractor who did our massive remodeling >when we first bought the place and who is honest and does excellent work. >He told me that in a home less than thirty years old it probably didn't make >a lot of sense to put thermal windows in, but in one as old as ours, where >the windows are not at all tight, they probably made sense. He had two >prices, one he thinks is $550 a pop, and one at about $440. According to >this fellow the $440 one is the way to go since the higher dollar window >isn't really all that different, just better known. > >On a sort of related note, can any of you give me good suggestions or >techniques I can use to convince my wife we really have to have a 5KW >generator in case we have an ice storm this Winter? So far I've come up >with, "The cat will die if we can't stay here, because he can't go to a >hotel, even if we could find a room somewhere after an event like that". > >-----Original Message----- >From: ><mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com>[email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Behalf Of chiliblindman >Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 20:02 >To: <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com>[email protected] >Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Thermol windows > >Bill, if you search for window R value or R insulation factor you should >come up with something workable. >...................bob > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
