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   [email protected] | Sep 25, 2013 04:26pm | #1

   Both

   We need to do both as part of increasing the efficiency of the whole building.  We will be adding 2X4s as furring on the inside and then doing spray foam before new drywall on the interior.  The archeologists are concerned that changing to a different window style will significantly alter the appearance of the building, and its visual interaction with the other buildings on the compound.

   i have no idea where to procure an energy efficient window that ugly.

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   junkhound | Sep 25, 2013 05:32pm | #2

   alter the appearance of the building, and its visual interaction with the other buildings on the compound.

    There is someone somewhere (an archeologist!!) that is worried those building have 'VISUAL INTERACTION"???!!! what a joke.

   You already pretty much summed it up with your closing,

   i have no idea where to procure an energy efficient window that ugly.

   SO, my option:  LEAVE the existing window as-is,  add to teh existing 'ambience' by screwing sheets of polycarbonate to the outside of the block walls with a colorful matrix of serpentine caulking as a sealant to add to the visual impact, eh?   

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   DanH | Sep 25, 2013 07:58pm | #3

   Yeah, the problem is that there's hardly anything you can do to that building (including demolition) which won't leave it looking better than now.  Even windows from the guy on late-night TV would be too pretty.

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   junkhound | Sep 26, 2013 12:03pm | #5

   Yep, even most of these have more visual appeal - and one or 2 may even be older?

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   bd | Sep 27, 2013 05:44am | #7

   Your sheds?

   Dude! You truly live in the wrong part of the country! You'd make any redneck or hillbilly proud to call you cuz'n! Shoot we could be related.

   You parents from 'bama, Jawja, Ten-a-cee, West, by God, VA, or them parts?

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   junkhound | Sep 27, 2013 08:39am | #8

   Ah wudna' fit in, aint got no dawg.....

   Dang, wen ah had my foot long red beard, folks in the hills did think ah wuz 'lated <G>

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   calvin | Sep 26, 2013 07:03am | #4

   jigs

   Narrowline casements with the same muntin bar location.

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   DanH | Sep 26, 2013 08:04pm | #6

   How much do you have to spend?  A Google came up with St Cloud Window Company, which claims to do "historic steel windows".  I suspect they may be a bit pricy, though.

   Otherwise you could consider the laborious process of replacing the glass with double-pane panels, though of course the frames would still be as lousy as ever.

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   calvin | Sep 28, 2013 11:01pm | #9

   BF

   Did you read the original post and perhaps take a look at the pictures?

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   DanH | Sep 29, 2013 07:06am | #10

   I don't think they do that in China.