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Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog Double glazed units cost an arm and a leg. Can you imagine the cost of triple glazed units would be, |
There is a shop in sandpoint that makes them and the cost was more than I wanted to pay, I do remember that.
But when I acquired the cabin and 5 acres the end facing the creek, actually the front as the drive and parking were at the rear, was unfinished and it was sealed from above the kitchen/dining room windows and door out onto the deck with a heavy opaque plastic material, but was thermally OK but the noise level was terrible during breakup and spring water flows, it sounded like living in a bowling alley with the rocks bouncing along and banging together.
But I measured and made a plan for the windows I needed to finish the front and when it was done, it was very pretty, almost all glass with just the timbers and window framing, even the door was a thermal pane glass, and the next winter it was warmer in the house with a third the wood used, -40F and only used 1 cord of wood to heat it and during breakup, it was quiet in the house, and I got to see it too.
I was setting out on the deck in the sun reading, and could hear a train rumbling sound, well we were about 20 miles thru the forest and over mountains to the train tracks, so was strange, but the sound got louder and then it sounded up canyon, not down,
there was a fork in the creek out in the canyon in front of the house and the creek ran in front about 15 feet from where I was setting and also a branch ran around on the other side of a wooded island type piece of lane in front of me and went around to my right and came almost straight back to where I was setting and them turned at my property line and went down canyon.
So I was setting right in the middle of this action, I notice the water rise up over the ice and snow in front of me and was kind of muddy brown color, then up the canyon on the other side of that forested Island here came the breakup, Ice chunks and trees and water and all kinds of shit was coming roaring down stream, rolling and bucking and whole trees it had torn out and huge chunks of ice and it was 50 or more feet high and going 50 miles an hour and such noise as I have never heard before, around the bend and straight at me and then turned again and down stream it went, lasted for a good 30 minutes before is slowed down and shit quit coming down stream,, I never will forget that day.