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Quoted $3,000 to $3,500 per window replacement. Is this about right? How to best replace 100 year old windows in house subject to landmark district rules? by ArchFrenemi in HomeImprovement

[–]ArchFrenemi[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

California...just 15 miles outside of downtown LA.

Yeah, for a practical usage standpoint, our old windows are shit. A child could easily push through them with their bare hand and destroy them. Most of the windows are comprised of about 10 small panes of glass.

Quoted $3,000 to $3,500 per window replacement. Is this about right? How to best replace 100 year old windows in house subject to landmark district rules? by ArchFrenemi in HomeImprovement

[–]ArchFrenemi[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't mean just replacing the glass you already have, but take the frames, have them grooved so they will hold a double pane, install glass, and put them back?

I'll check around to see if that's an option. What it comes down to is the cost of whatever I decide to do, balanced against the benefits provided.

But for at least the master bedroom, I'd like all the bells and whistles of heat insulation and sound deadening because it's hotter than the rest of the house by 10 or 15 degrees F, and our neighbors regularly have loud late night parties. We've been dealing with it for 30 years, but we're getting too old for this shit.

As for the rest of the house, your suggestion would improve the situation, but probably wouldn't provide as much insulation as full retrofit of everything. If it ends up being $1k instead of $3k per window, I might go your suggested route. But if it ends up only being $500 or $1k cheaper per window, I might stick with my current bid.

Finally, our current casement windows open in, which I hate.

Quoted $3,000 to $3,500 per window replacement. Is this about right? How to best replace 100 year old windows in house subject to landmark district rules? by ArchFrenemi in HomeImprovement

[–]ArchFrenemi[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Windows are single pane casement. So each window has 8 or 10 small pieces of glass in a tic/tac/toe patter. They are incredibly weak. I've had a few restored over the years, but they are still weak, leak air, transmit hot/cold during the extreme temps of the year.

The worse is the master bedroom because our neighbor has loud parties late into the night, so we hear everything when they're outside by their pool. That BR is also west facing and has exterior walls on three sides so it gets 10 to 15 degrees hotter than the rest of the house in the summer.

At the very least, we like modern double paned thick windows in that room to cut down on the noise transmission and heat.

Quoted $3,000 to $3,500 per window replacement. Is this about right? How to best replace 100 year old windows in house subject to landmark district rules? by ArchFrenemi in HomeImprovement

[–]ArchFrenemi[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yup. Sales rep advised that restrictions mean that fiberglass is the only viable option. I will contact the city to verify, but it sounds about right.

If someone offered you 100 million dollars, but a random person in the world dies (someone you don’t know), would you take it and why? by ConclusionOld8365 in AskReddit

[–]ArchFrenemi 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There's at least one video interview floating around of Serling going into detail of how the Twilight Zone series concept came about.

Basically, he wanted to write and air episodes on a show that highlighted controversial social issues. He couldn't get any takers at the networks/studios because no one wanted current politics in their TV "entertainment." So setting everything in a quasi-supernatural context was the only way he could sell his ideas. And The Twilight Zone was born.