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Installing a Marvin Palladian Window
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" You really helped us figure out how to put together the whole window order for this particular hundred year old Allison and we do have some old windows that we're preserving. With a beautiful ripple glimmer collapsed right down below and then we have other windows like this one right that's correct I'm not sure that this is a hundred year old windows. I think I don't know you you probably it's an old -- it's an old one but I think it's more like a forty or fifty year old window that was added into the storm. At some point during the the last forty -- fifty years. And when you have something like this. It's almost not worth trying to repair right. It's very difficult. You've got broken planes of -- in many places you've got a fair amount of damage to the wood still. Some rot and a lot of built up putty and paint. And even if you went to great lengths to restore it and make it look pretty you still have a very low technology crimes not so let's talk about the technology of this window."
" we've been able to do is kind of keep the architectural integrity and restore what looks like. An original unit of put a lot of high technology into the glass evening we've basically. Enhance the performance of this probably four times. Based on the glass itself so egregious that one piece of glass is that like a one. What's called a low emissivity coating on it which helps reflect. The heat back somewhat like a mirror reflects here. Vietnam image and strike. And now of course then we also have argon gas in the airspace which also affects the heat and cold trance so what we have with -- is -- four. Basically -- glass would be more elegant little over our fourth grade. And they look as you said they look identical to what was here in the first place again but for really really great looks we're talking palladian window that's going -- OK in the family."
" Now the idea where this family room was that even when you kids are going to college it's nice to have one big room and how's this gonna drop them back. And this is meant to be both an entertainment center as well as place for a pool table in this is really going to make the room spectacular. Now the the origin of a palladian window. -- know more about this and I do I don't know about that well it has that it -- Andrea palladio. Who was sixteenth century Italian architect and he'd designed a lot of neo classical palaces. Around -- Venice Italy event itself but one of the things you like to do was to very prominently placed our round topped window flanked by two flat -- kind of in these proportions in a very important part of -- right -- house. And this is a beautiful window. Now I think the guys have got it all."
" You know there's so much prep work involved right that's correct we've. Basically custom -- someone knows and we're -- custom fit some sill -- in casings off and they've got it -- up but essentially. It's three different windows. That go in independently right that's correct OK now what do you do you have to take the sash out before you install them. It'll be easiest in this application because we don't have any existing casing. We have standard typically nail through the casing on an installation. We're gonna take the sash out the GM liners and screw through it rains OK how you take the sash out very simply we could still the window up. And pressed against the GM liners. And our special tilt it."
" And then you -- you're not like that correct."
" OK we're while you're taking those sash out I think I'm going to check in with. Architect Greg rochlin who's a good joining -- hi fellas looks like a little medical caucus over here I wanted to talk about the structure of the frame because this is an unusual situation right correct relatives two problems here. Once we removed the ceiling which was bracing that's outside walls again Wallace never designed. For this -- so the first thing we did was increase the thickness of five and a half inches but you don't you don't really have a big roof load here to gable end it's a win a lot of problems which are actually the wind -- almost as grand as a -- floats above 50000 square foot which is the same as -- interest. And this high up off the ground as you can see you've got quite a you cannot protect rather buildings yet. So here -- and is no real win break there's no taller building next to -- defense and so the way of addressed it is with. Braces here's a -- and braces that are. Holding them. Against the wind and then this big heavy had to -- actually it's not so it's not a loan problem but it stiffens. The wall and brings a slug it out to the braces are OK so it's basically stiffen it. And then we've framed independently for each of the three windows. Now you get -- installments. -- Andrea we figure out what's the first my c'mon let's grab it K and -- centerpiece. McCain has its fiftieth plumb from the outside. And -- would get a from the outside now O'Hanlon from the inside. This next news. Okay. -- it as a side. Then if we want us for the."
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