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Re: Another home improvement question
« Reply #15 on: April 03, 2007, 01:12:53 pm »
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Full foam? Good call.  ;)
Uh...Yeah, right. Just doing my best to keep it Hot Tub related. Right...  :-?

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Re: Another home improvement question
« Reply #15 on: April 03, 2007, 01:12:53 pm »

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Re: Another home improvement question
« Reply #16 on: April 03, 2007, 08:41:56 pm »
When I had my house sided, I think the price was $10,000 with another $5,000 in windows. My shingles needed to be prepped a little and painted but my window frames were really bad. I figured I would have come close to the $10K price.

The problem with a siding project as I found out is windows are best to do at this time too. If you have older windiws, wrapping the windows to remove them at a later date is costly. My windows were 30+ YO at the time (double hung with storms) and we listened to their advice ... of course I couldn't afford Andersons or Pellas.

They used Tyvec and only used 1/4" board ...  didn't have any other foam board option. They used new construction windows mostly except where my brick front is ... they didn't want to cut through the brick.

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Re: Another home improvement question
« Reply #17 on: April 03, 2007, 10:08:46 pm »
 :o :o..uh I'm beginning to rethink my hatred of yellow!
We definately wouldn't need new windows, we did that about 6 years ago, but $10,000.00 for siding...I guess I really had no idea...I'm thinking a bucket of yellow paint for the tub might do..about $5.50 at the local Ace Hardware! ;D ;D
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Re: Another home improvement question
« Reply #18 on: April 04, 2007, 09:26:43 am »
I thought Vinneys prices were good....? I will need to side in the future and am thinking 15-20K (Single family house with attached garage). $10K? I'd do it tomorrow.   I did replacement windows  2years agon  (?)  ..oh god, what a pain shopping for those on a budget. Window salesmen are the worst....High end replacement windows (Triple pane) were running about $1200 per window.  ::).  Some even more.  Their sales pitches were like getting poked repeatedly in the eye with a rusty fork.

Of course they said I would save 40% of my heating.  ::)

(let's see.....$1200 to heat the house per winter....at best with thier product, I'd save $480 a year.  The gurantee was for the first year only.....um....25 windows  x $1200 = 30,0000.00  

I went with a major brand name, double pane replacement from a repubutable local dealer for abou 1/4 the costs.  I am happy.  

Had the deck contractor out last night....hopefully his numbers agree with my bank account.  ;)
 

Why wasn't  I born rich, (or at least have a dad that was a contractor?).  ;)

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Re: Another home improvement question
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