Claire CJS
window, bathroom (small), main room - now painted - 20110620 - IMG_3096
Our leftmost 2 front windows after repainting the sills. The right one of these is the one that required the "cinder-block ladder", because it was impossible to put a ladder on the stairs.
You can also see how crooked the gutter was before I repaired it. This was also cited in one or two of the 3 homeowners insurance drops we had this year.
Oh look! A bus in the window reflection!
bathroom window, crooked cutter, gutter guards, house maintenance, window.
after painting. before gutter repair.
front yard, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
June 20, 2011.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
BACKSTORY: So our homeowners insurance (Farmers) got dropped due to having peeling paint on our window sills (among other things). Weak. It was a LOT of work AND money for us to repaint all our sills. Wood windows SUCK!! Modern vinyl windows are MAINTANENCE-FREE!! Wood windows... You gotta re-glaze the panes when they fall out, and then the wood itself is always going to slowly rot away. We already had our cats knock a pane out, so we already had glazing compound for pane repairs. This came in handy when we painted our various window sills, as some also needed glazing compound.
It was quite a pain, because it cost so much money and had our living room in disarray for so many months, and the whole insurance basis for the situation was pretty bullshitty in the first place. We're not going to make a property damage claim due to moisture that occurs because our paint was peeling! Ridiculous...
Bathroom window before painting: www.flickr.com/photos/clintjcl/4531380523/
window, bathroom (small), main room - now painted - 20110620 - IMG_3096
Our leftmost 2 front windows after repainting the sills. The right one of these is the one that required the "cinder-block ladder", because it was impossible to put a ladder on the stairs.
You can also see how crooked the gutter was before I repaired it. This was also cited in one or two of the 3 homeowners insurance drops we had this year.
Oh look! A bus in the window reflection!
bathroom window, crooked cutter, gutter guards, house maintenance, window.
after painting. before gutter repair.
front yard, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
June 20, 2011.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
BACKSTORY: So our homeowners insurance (Farmers) got dropped due to having peeling paint on our window sills (among other things). Weak. It was a LOT of work AND money for us to repaint all our sills. Wood windows SUCK!! Modern vinyl windows are MAINTANENCE-FREE!! Wood windows... You gotta re-glaze the panes when they fall out, and then the wood itself is always going to slowly rot away. We already had our cats knock a pane out, so we already had glazing compound for pane repairs. This came in handy when we painted our various window sills, as some also needed glazing compound.
It was quite a pain, because it cost so much money and had our living room in disarray for so many months, and the whole insurance basis for the situation was pretty bullshitty in the first place. We're not going to make a property damage claim due to moisture that occurs because our paint was peeling! Ridiculous...
Bathroom window before painting: www.flickr.com/photos/clintjcl/4531380523/