We Have Windows
Jun. 16th, 2023 09:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aWE HAVE WINDOWS
Many months after Mango's two (successful) escape attempts, and many moons after we ordered new windows, we have them. It had been a long process of ordering custom jalousie windows, and then waiting for them to be manufactured and shipped.
The window people actually called us last week when we were in Oahu and when we didn't know for sure when we'd back and definitely didn't want window installation waiting for us when we returned. But, we'd told them we'd be happy to get the windows installed this week. So, Kimberly arranged it and our window guys showed up on Thursday.
Well, several hours late on Thursday, but that's Hawaii. (No problem!)
The main reason for new windows was to get something other than the crappy awning windows we had on the downstairs front of the house, which no longer opened and shut right because the extension arms of 3 out of 4 had rusted out and which Mango could escape through by leaping up, catching his claws in the (interior) screen, then dragging that out of frame with his enormous body weight.
So the windows went in yesterday thanks to our friendly window people who we'd loved when they came out to measure and quote and who we loved again when they were doing the work. But the windows weren't sized exactly for our window frames because the panes of glass in jalousies come in specific sizes. This was expected, but more work needed to be done today to put a piece of wood above each window to fill extra space.
The result looks terrific. It also lets more light into the rooms, and I don't think that was _just_ because the awning windows were filthy. Jalousies are all glass without all the mechanics (and an angled window outside), so that's just brighter. Finally, it's obviously improved the air circulation downstairs, which was another of our hopes. I really don't know why anyone would install ground-level awnings like that, because it just drives the air right down into the ground, killing any breezes.
As for whether they're Mango-proof? The jury's out. I mean we have plenty of screens and jalousies that he doesn't try to escape through. But, he knows he's gotten out through these windows before. So I have some concern he might make an attempt on the two windows in the mud room, which are at counter level (and he was definitely trying to jam his head through the jalousies yesterday). However, the great window people really listened to our concerns, so the screens are on the outside, which they had to do some work to manage, and they're supposedly cat proof.
So, fingers crossed, and something like 9 months later we've finally been able to open up our house again. (As our window guy said: just in time for summer.)
Many months after Mango's two (successful) escape attempts, and many moons after we ordered new windows, we have them. It had been a long process of ordering custom jalousie windows, and then waiting for them to be manufactured and shipped.
The window people actually called us last week when we were in Oahu and when we didn't know for sure when we'd back and definitely didn't want window installation waiting for us when we returned. But, we'd told them we'd be happy to get the windows installed this week. So, Kimberly arranged it and our window guys showed up on Thursday.
Well, several hours late on Thursday, but that's Hawaii. (No problem!)
The main reason for new windows was to get something other than the crappy awning windows we had on the downstairs front of the house, which no longer opened and shut right because the extension arms of 3 out of 4 had rusted out and which Mango could escape through by leaping up, catching his claws in the (interior) screen, then dragging that out of frame with his enormous body weight.
So the windows went in yesterday thanks to our friendly window people who we'd loved when they came out to measure and quote and who we loved again when they were doing the work. But the windows weren't sized exactly for our window frames because the panes of glass in jalousies come in specific sizes. This was expected, but more work needed to be done today to put a piece of wood above each window to fill extra space.
The result looks terrific. It also lets more light into the rooms, and I don't think that was _just_ because the awning windows were filthy. Jalousies are all glass without all the mechanics (and an angled window outside), so that's just brighter. Finally, it's obviously improved the air circulation downstairs, which was another of our hopes. I really don't know why anyone would install ground-level awnings like that, because it just drives the air right down into the ground, killing any breezes.
As for whether they're Mango-proof? The jury's out. I mean we have plenty of screens and jalousies that he doesn't try to escape through. But, he knows he's gotten out through these windows before. So I have some concern he might make an attempt on the two windows in the mud room, which are at counter level (and he was definitely trying to jam his head through the jalousies yesterday). However, the great window people really listened to our concerns, so the screens are on the outside, which they had to do some work to manage, and they're supposedly cat proof.
So, fingers crossed, and something like 9 months later we've finally been able to open up our house again. (As our window guy said: just in time for summer.)