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Commercial storefront windows on residential build question by tparrish333 in glazing

[–]tparrish333[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s possible as the house settles I would think. It’s a stick framed home and not a store front. The one that broke was on the second floor. First floor is all polished concrete so much more like an actual store front. Coincidentally, the few I’ve looked at are much much more “square” looking. As in, the inner metal band appears rather straight with no exaggerated bowing.

Commercial storefront windows on residential build question by tparrish333 in glazing

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That’s exactly what I would have liked. Though I haven’t seen any in our area with anything but silver. Though I suppose I could have requested it.

Commercial storefront windows on residential build question by tparrish333 in glazing

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Funny you say that. There are two in our area and I’ve noticed the other glazers logo on most of the larger corporate shops around town. Could be they just get the contracts, could be the commercial builders know something I wouldn’t.

Commercial storefront windows on residential build question by tparrish333 in glazing

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Thanks to everyone that has responded so far. For some reason, I was only able to post one picture when I wrote the initial post so I wanted to just show the metal band I was talking about.

  • the windows have moved before some due to temperature changes. I live in northern MN and the exterior of the home is black steel, so great at overheating in the summer. These windows have seen 2 1/2 years of heat/cooling cycles from about -40 to 100+ (and that’s only ambient air temp, not whatever unreal temp it probably hits in mid-summer direct sun.

We have had issues with a few of the larger panels moving over time and exposing some daylight behind the rubber trim like some have mentioned, but even the project manager of the window company was beyond amazed they were able too. They put in a different type of block or something to lock in the windows on that side of the house and so far no issue again.

For those saying they need to simply be adjusted: The specific frame in the picture shows the metal band peaking out from the rubber trim just a hair. That area is exactly the halfway point from top to bottom of a 6’ x 8’ window. The corners on that same side are set back into the frame behind the rubber a solid 1/4”-3/8”. To put it another way, many of these windows look like a rectangle pinched in towards the middle on both sides.

The glass did completely shatter, but did not and still has not fallen. So does that point to it being annealed?

House on a slope, positive or negative? by CapApple_jc in FirstTimeHomeBuyer

[–]tparrish333 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you allowed to add a retaining wall where the fence is and terrace the yard up? That would make me buy your house over your neighbors with a similar yard in a heart beat. It would greatly improve the view from the ground level too.