On Jun 4, 2004, at 17:32, Janice Blair wrote:
We have just replaced our old sash windows that had storms in with new casement windows. Large ones with no lites (wooden bars dividing them up). They open outwards [...]
Yeah, and how are you gonna wash 'em? Do your Spiderwoman act? When we enclosed out side porch some 15 yrs ago (and turned it into a music room), Severn, wanting to please, OK-ed casement windows. American style. They're operated by a crank, and they open outwards. They're also single-pane (cold in winter, hot in summer) but, naturally, the only storm windows available were sash ones, so we don't have any, and the room is a freezer in winter and a frying pan in summer.
It's true that, with casement windows opening inwards, you either can't keep anything in front of them, or else have to move everything every time (which is where the idea of "lufcik" - a small part of the window opening, independently, at the top - comes in). But, for washing... You do both sides of the pane at once - Lazy Lizzie's paradise <g>
The older windows had two separate frames, each holding one pane; in effect, two separate windows. The newer ones hold two panes and come apart (so you can wash only the outsides, or both outsides and insides). In either case, you have, in addition to the two layers of glass, a layer of air in between.
*Without* the hassle of the storm windows (which are twice the pain of the ordinary sash ones), as is the case in US. Which hassle is so great - glass up, screen down, screen up, glass down, aaargh - that I don't even bother to use them; wichever way they're set, thus they stay (in any case, you can only open half of the window at once)
And this is the country which has invented the "dumb Polack" term? Bzzzzt...
--- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush.
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
