Way too cold for this
Back in October, I had all my windows measured so that they could be replaced. It took a bit longer than anticipated for the new windows to be made, but the day has finally come for new my windows to get installed.
Last night, we had a pretty bad snow storm come through and we may be getting some more snow throughout the day today. Hopefully the installation goes smoothly and I am not stuck with a giant hole in my house for some odd reason.
The bay window in the master bedroom is what i am most excited to get replaced. This room gets so hot during the summer time. The windows on my house are over 20 years old and have been needed to be upgraded for a while now.
The windows I got for this room are their top of the line energy efficient windows, so I am pretty sure I will notice a difference. I have a list of things that we will be doing to upgrade parts of our home that I have been putting off. Growing up in the military, I never really lived anywhere for over 4 years, so I never worried about this type of stuff, but since we have been in this home for almost 10 years now, we may as well upgrade some stuff because I don't see us moving any time soon.
The windows cost me about $15,000. The next thing we are going to be planning on doing is removing all the carpet and putting some wood flooring down. The carpet in our home is really old and our cats have scratched up parts of it. Good thing my wife works for a construction company because she has a lot of contacts at work that we can use. I wish I would have known that before getting the windows installed because we probably could have saved some money with that.
It should take about two days to complete the installation of the windows. Hopefully there aren't any issues with it. A piece of the new window for my kitchen broke because of the cold, so I am hoping that doesn't happen to any of the other windows. Luckily they didn't remove the old window. They let me know it should be about four weeks for the new window to be made and then they will put that in. I can't wait to see how well these new windows work and if they are worth the money. At least when we do decide to sell our home, we should get that value back.
