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   Dave45 | Jun 06, 2005 05:21am | #1

   I usually try to talk customers out of garden windows.  I've only seen one that I thought was decent - the top opened to allow heat/humidity to escape.  Every one I've seen over the past several years has two dinky openings at the bottom which do nothing about the heat and humidity that collects at the top.

   If you install one (or more), make sure that you nail it off so it can expand/contract.  I recently replaced a double paned garden window that had drywall screws driven tightly into every hole in the nailing fins.  To add to the fun, it was on the south wall of the house.  The HO had thought that it was just an el-cheapo window until I explained that the installation had locked the frame in place and that several years of expansion/contraction had finally destroyed the seals.

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   Dinosaur | Jun 06, 2005 05:22am | #2

   David--what's a 'garden window'? (Sorry....)

   Dinosaur

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   Piffin | Jun 06, 2005 06:14am | #3

   http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.summitroofing.com/images/image042.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.summitroofing.com/replacewindow.html&h=226&w=256&sz=10&tbnid=T2iniPQBO1oJ:&tbnh=94&tbnw=107&hl=en&start=4&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgarden%2Bwindow%26hl%3Den%26lr%3Dlang_en%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG 

    

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   davidmeiland | Jun 06, 2005 06:57am | #4

   That's one helluva URL... here's another

   http://www.milgard.com/products/vinyl-windows/classic-garden.asp

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   Piffin | Jun 06, 2005 01:26pm | #5

   Just a google and right click copy pastenaw - I had it memorized
   ;) 

    

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