Caledonia wrote:
Lena wrote:
D. Gerasimatos wrote:
my 77 year old wooden windows are still in place on
my house...

How many times have they been painted? Reglazed? Do they stick? How
difficult are they to clean, on the outside? Have the counterweight
cables been replaced? Do you bother to open them on a cool day or is
it too much trouble? Do you have storm windows over them? Do they
sweat in the winter? Wood windows are a lot of work, aren't they?

Lena

For our (former) house, the windows were repainted after 7 years. No
reglazing was necessary. One window did stick, and the counterweight
cables had been replaced in all windows at some undefined point in the
past. We opened them when we needed the windows opened, they had storms
put on in the fall and taken off in the spring. No sweating noticable.

Um, yes, wood windows are more work than buying vinyl windows every 5
years or so -- but by the same token, washing my clothes is more work
than just buying new ones every day.

And with vinyl, you get that weird white trim, which shouts 'bland!'
(How can people stand to have their interior window trim not match
their interior baseboard/chair rail trim? Just too strange...)

Caledonia

I've had vinyl windows and 2 sliding doors (EPI) for 15 years,
including one big 10'x5' Zero problems and no maintainence, other than
cleaning. They look and work as good as the day we got them.