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I’m building a house (for myself) near Ithaca, NY, and doing as much as possible with used and salvage materials. I got some aluminum-framed and some steel framed casement windows at a salvage yard that I really like the look of and which will go nicely with the general look of the house (sort of Craftsman/Adirondack/Eclectic/EtcEtcEtc). All of the glass is gone and the windows all need to have the old putty removed and be reglazed. Having a few dozen other things to do, I thought I’d take them to a place in town. The guys there painted a pretty bleak picture. About the only good thing they had to say that they look nice. Aside from that, it was all thumbs down for thermal efficiency, sealing (metal on metal), difficulty of doing storm windows, and even cracking of panes from expansion and contraction. I could maybe deal with all of that but the worst was condensation problems on the inside and subsequent rotting of the sill. Is there a way to deal with the last problem? I really like the look of these windows (and I’ve already framed for them). As you might have guessed, buying new is way out of the question.
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I'm building a house (for myself) near Ithaca, NY, and doing as much as possible with used and salvage materials. I got some aluminum-framed and some steel framed casement windows at a salvage yard that I really like the look of and which will go nicely with the general look of the house (sort of Craftsman/Adirondack/Eclectic/EtcEtcEtc). All of the glass is gone and the windows all need to have the old putty removed and be reglazed. Having a few dozen other things to do, I thought I'd take them to a place in town. The guys there painted a pretty bleak picture. About the only good thing they had to say that they look nice. Aside from that, it was all thumbs down for thermal efficiency, sealing (metal on metal), difficulty of doing storm windows, and even cracking of panes from expansion and contraction. I could maybe deal with all of that but the worst was condensation problems on the inside and subsequent rotting of the sill. Is there a way to deal with the last problem? I really like the look of these windows (and I've already framed for them). As you might have guessed, buying new is way out of the question.