Why does nobody clear the paths outside their homes?
on 01/13/2010 at 09:44 AM
Gosh, and here was me thinking you could be fined for NOT clearing your bit of sidewalk.
I think the judges who allow these cases to even be filed need to be flogged. And any lawyer who files one gets disbarred.
I used to have iron windows like that, called critall or something, do yours get ice on the inside?
Posted by Chris Edwards
01/13/2010 at 06:22 PM
Ive read that book. I believe it was called Catch-22.
Chris - Iron frame windows are the pits. Either the panes are cut small to allow for the large thermal expansion of the metal, in which case they leak an rattle and get ice crust on the inside, or the panes crack left and right over the years from the same effect. Very very small zone of “just right” sizing, and if the house settles a bit all bets are off.
And the upkeep is a trial too. Not only do they need scraping and repainting on a regular basis, they tend to rust too.
Storm windows for these are often huge sheets of unframed glass, laid on the inside of the iron window in unattached metal tracks, held in place with felt strips. Nearly worthless, and sometimes scary to install or remove.
My 2ยข as a window guy. I hate them.
Drew, perhaps that is where they got the term “thermal break”?? I eventually found the urethene adhesive used to stick car windshields in worked (no real surprise there!) and some slivers of rubber to keep things central, POR15 keeps the rust away, I hated the damn things and England has worse to clean, we call the leaded lights, my last house had UPVC double glazing with lead strips on the outside (they now put them in the middle with the nitrogen) when I sprayed silicon waterproofing it got on the glass, ho ho what fun to clean!!!!!!
Posted by Chris Edwards
01/14/2010 at 07:01 PM
01/13/2010 at 11:44 AM
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