STORMS INSTALLED
Saturday, October 7th, 2023 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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55F and sunny today, and breezy! Perfect weather for working on the porch and out front with a hoodie and a cup of coffee!
I'm happy to report everything went according to plan today!.. no unforeseen problems, delays, or broken glass!
I started out front, where I taped the sash windows and painted last weeks glaze around their panes.
And then I installed the exterior turnbuckles. I will hit those screw heads with the white epoxy spray paint, probably tomorrow.
Inside I stained the glaze on the two storm frames. I was able to pick them up and move them around without any issues.
They did not flex on me, like I feared.
Starting with Window B... the north window... I did the dynaflex around the exterior of the panes. And it was just as amateur hour as with the glaze. But at this point I didn't care.
And then I threw the turnbuckle on the top.
This is Window B, fully installed... the missing storm Dad worried about for years.
I got Window A caulked and installed half an hour later.
I really wish Dad could've lived to see this!.. two matching storms in the style of the originals from 1875.
He would've been thrilled!
And I don't think it looks half bad!
And then a side view of them... my view as I enter through the front door every night after work from now on.
It'll be nice to see both windows flush with the house, and not have those nagging worries anymore in the back of my head, that the livingroom's not insulated well, and the sash windows are whithering away in the elements.
Just got off the phone with Colleen & Tim.
Sheila is off on a trip this weekend.
Celina (Colleen's daughter) managed to get a hold of Dylan this past week to do a facetime with him on a laptop from where he's staying with his girlfriend and her father.
Both the girlfriend and father were gone at the time, and as soon as the father got home, Dylan cut the call.
He is not receiving any kind of mental health treatment at the moment, and, according to Celina, is still in a very spacey state.
What's disturbing is that he not only totalled his car in the incident a few weeks ago, but also tossed his wallet and phone out the window before crashing it.
So... he's not being followed by drones or fighter jets, and nobody's spiking his orange drink in the car's cupholder with poison... which is what he now blames the episode on...
But he IS in a dangerous situation, stuck with this weird girl and her dad, without a phone, car, or any ID!
He sent Celina a GPS link to his location, so that people know where he is, and we tracked it down on Google Maps... and it's just an apartment building in Irvine, California.
So, it's not like he's in a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere.
But he's still at a huge disadvantage without a phone, car, or ID... and the girlfriend and her Dad are super MAGA, so... they can't be helping his mental state with all their hyper religious conspiracy theories.
Colleen, Tim, and I, discussed possibly going in to get him.
Like, if we could get the resources, Then Tim could send his son with some friends to extract him, get him to an airport, and shuttle him off to me here, in the safe house, in Aurora, Illinois... where he'd have a better chance to recover and get his life back together.
It was just talk, tonight... but it could come to something like that. I dunno.
But that's the update on Dylan.
As for me here, I'm just extremely happy to have the damn storm windows installed!
It means tomorrow I can mow the lawn.
And then it's just one more week of work before I get my four day weekend to clean the house.
And then it's the big event.
As for the upstairs storms...
The four storm frames up there are all held in by screws!
So the only way to get them out would be to remove the sash windows first... to undo the screws!
That really complicates things.
Also... Dad appears to have CUT OUT the bottom of the storm frame for the window that the air conditioner's been in since the late 1960s. So that frame is probably not salvageable... once it comes out.
If there's time tomorrow, I'll at least look into whether or not I can properly install the sectional inserts into these frames... so that I have some protection from the elements over the winter upstairs.
But painting them on the outside this fall is out of the question.
I still do intend to restore all the windows in the house... but it's just gonna be more involved than I thought last night.
Basically... I'm gonna have to get REALLY GOOD at removing sash windows from the inside!
But I've got the north facing studio window to practice on, over the short term, and I'm sure I'll get it down to a science eventually.
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