NOT our windows, but aren't they pretty?
I was wondering why the master bedroom and bath were so cold this winter! I figured it was because we've taken to keeping the bedroom door closed since there is a dog in the house that thinks the green rug in my bathroom looks JUST like the grass in the yard...
The other day while using the facilities, I noticed the Roman shades waver in the breeze. *really?* There was a definite draft coming in! Not only was the wind whistling around my bathroom, but I could feel it. I pulled up the shades and found the window had been open a half inch. Who knows for how long??! I never open those shades! I really don't want the neighbors looking directly at me while I'm in the bath!
So now the window wouldn't shut. *figures* I was so conscious of the wind after that, up until the wind finally died down around midnight. The next day I took a hair dryer over to it and tried to melt some of the ice off so I could close it.
Nope.
It finally warmed up above freezing Wednesday but there was not a time when someone else was home with me to hold the ladder for me to climb up and shove the thing shut. The inside latch is too far gone with the window having rotted from being open like that for however long it's been. Thursday over lunch, I had Ryan hold the ladder. I figure if anyone is going to die while trying to fix this thing, it'll be me. I don't even want anyone I love to do roof work on our house! and I'm not going to do it!! It's way too tall so we get a professional stranger to fix the roof when problems arise. Luckily this was only one story to get to the roof area by the bathroom window. So I gave it a shot.
I climbed the ladder and it shifted in the wind as soon as I got to the top! Ryan held it below. When I got to the top, I couldn't get off the ladder. Seriously. One leg past the gutter on shingles, the other bending in an abnormal way to get over the stinking top of the ladder... and then the ladder shifted again.
Okey doke. I'm coming down this thing!!!
We took the ladder down and decided to wait until a warmer, less windy day to do this. May is a nice month!
I was frustrated and decided to tackle the window again from the inside. Found that it must have thawed out a bit more, because I was finally able to get it to close just an eighth of an inch more! JUST enough to get the lock to pull it shut the rest of the way. FINALLY it's shut and locked!!!
Can you believe my nose wasn't frosted over this morning!!??!
4 comments:
Don't you hate it when stuff like that happens? Then I think about all the money that went out that window. Yikes.
I wonder who opened it?
Our windows are crap, they are over 30 years old and I'm pretty sure that cardboard would be better. Well until it got wet. Always a project around here.
I so get what you are saying! My one son loves to leave his window open ALL THE TIME! I was wondering why it was so cold upstairs, and found that he hadn't closed his window from the top. It too had frozen in that position. Took awhile, but I finally got it to move. When I told him he needs to remember to lock it shut, he informed me he didn't like it that way. We then had a conversation about him paying the heat bill!
Well ours are all closed but it sure doesn't feel like it, they are original to the house - 1916.
Stay warm my friend.
Leann
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