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Pella Window Factory Tour

Bob tours the Pella Window factory in Pella, Iowa, to see how they can reproduce the special circle-head window for the basement of the project house.
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" How -- okay. Today it's. What's happening here. A lot of -- different -- yeah. -- Okay here. And the -- regularly how fast."

" Yeah surprise surprise virtually perfect lips and -- is being done here OK imploded honors its. There's a better word. Trainers and bathroom highway on the top coating baked on to a hard granite OK and when it comes out at this end over here. It's already going to manufacturing front that's right that's ready to go there all flights. I'll -- they have right now we offer any dollar that's an architect night I would like. Well I'd like to see how you make historical event okay."

" OK let's let -- downward drop that -- right back here Bob. This is where the wooden panels come together. -- is the reason -- we call lovely. -- an iPod around government. Well what they're visiting the premier out of have small block blue dog actually invented in any case we want that you make certainly well -- right -- along with us. These of exclusion right here particularly the exterior surface aluminum has been extruded invent the Internet -- aluminum slated. I haven't put on -- and then and the problems. Night unit as forthcoming in any color you want any color did you -- how do you bend the aluminum and the -- together all of them billionaire right over here let's say hello and in making big circular one that's correct. We'll look at that. Now what the white stuff that -- what I want to underscores just to protect that platter and solid and then. North got becomes perhaps -- performance. At all. Yeah it's not that. What really keeps the -- didn't Natalie threw him credit that's right -- flexible enough that it will form whatever the battle. Whatever -- development holds your. Yeah go ahead and circle -- Bratton what's the next week throughout the next thing we have to do with private life."

" And that's where we don't have a land manager are not hard line. That we feel toward the planet thing died unrelated going to go -- the aluminum outta one that's actually not a lot quieter join him about a 43 and a half and yes."

" That's operations where we actually trouble ahead fell. But the government I was. You depend on the -- well that's that's your cut is spill over things accused setup yeah. It takes breezed through. It goes through. Can we hold you tighter joint together -- home where tall and then it's ready for planting that brave Buthelezi and we'll put the glass back down here down. The last day of operation out here. That's where we go way beyond it now I didn't thermal take the latter is thermal glass that is to thermal glass in street ordering your ideas on where you can we seal the miter joints living here thing that's injected into the corner. -- After the collapse of -- that would put the interiors opposite which is not over here. Everything we -- thank minutes."

" Stops. These are not laminated these I actually got out of that that is correct those are. We're into the -- Rip them down to -- that -- punitive. It is taken down and no standard here."

" Natalie another best do that yeah. Good -- tonight and next morning in an element outer loop allies now that that happens over here -- kudos top draft. That's done via -- period. The drill hole. Yeah. And head drilled that sort of screw in. Who have been injured person who broke out with the clear on the part where he wants he has got an element really ground -- had power nailer for everything beautiful now how can you ensure that the weather's not gonna get through this unit well we're gonna have to go here. And -- nothing visibility right now."

" When we got here well that's our air water infiltration -- we can simulate. Rain conditions went more into the -- rain and winds around 200 miles an hour. Hurricane and typhoon off with the other fellows are certainly strong storm conditions unbelievably."

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