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Re:Using Gorilla glass for home building by bloomingeek on Thursday March 27, 2025 @05:14PM (#43498270)
My home is 58 years old. last summer I had the original aluminum single-pane windows replaced with vinyl double-pane ones. I 'assisted' the installer and knew he would prob run into some settling of the window opening. I was right, there's no way I could done the replacements on my own, owing to proper tools alone.

My power company sent me an email the following December telling me my energy savings from the previous October, 2023 (that month only), for the same month in 2024, was 31%! When I called the installer and told him, he said a large part of that was prob from leakage around the old windows and the now double panes.

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Re:Using Gorilla glass for home building by theoreticalmal on Friday March 28, 2025 @09:25AM (#43505175)
Where did you purchase your replacement windows from? Custom size? May I ask how much you paid for them?
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Re:Using Gorilla glass for home building by bloomingeek on Saturday March 29, 2025 @04:18AM (#43513755)
The windows brand is "Ply Gem Windows". They were ordered from a local lumber yard, not a national chain like Lowe's. (Prices can vary wildly depending where you live. When the same installer put in my new patio door, he steered me to Lowe's as the best price, I went in and ordered that myself.) Since my house was built in 1967, they were for that era a standard size. The installer measured all 17 windows for Ply Gem to go by. For the windows and installation, not to mention my assistance (I mostly picked up trash!) the total cost was just under $8K.
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