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Post by E on Oct 26, 2009 13:01:08 GMT -5
We put one on Saturday. You would not BELIEVE the difference it has made to the air flow inside. This morning the wind was blowing and I could not feel it until I opened the front door. It blew IN through the house! I was excited. Anyway, when Shawn was putting up we ran into the issue of the builder not plumbing the door right. The hinge side of the frame was only about 1/8" crooked top to bottom but the latch side was more of a 1/2" and the lean in and out was like 1/2" off. Shawn was able to just use a level and make the security screen right but you can see how crooked the door frame is. I think it took him all of an hour with "little helpers". Kids.
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Post by Denethor on Oct 26, 2009 16:03:02 GMT -5
Heh crooked = exactly like my place. The windows are trapezoidal not rectangular, and the front door is so crooked that when I put a poster next to it, I deliberately hung that a little off true because it looked far better than when I tried it straight using a plumb line. (It's not much helped by the fact that the way I have set things up, you enter through the storage area.) When we lived downstairs, I once heard someone drop something round up here and chase it all the way from one corner of the other upstairs apartment diagonally to the opposite one. I still snicker when I think of that. The place looks like it was designed by H. P. Lovecraft to let some eldritch creature in using the Evil Angles, or like some of the bad guys' lairs in the old Batman shows. My own apartment is vaguely reminiscent of the crazy aunt's house in the film version of Lemony Snicket - yeah, that one. (Laugh all you like. I can't hear you. ) And that stupid you-know-what wondered why the place wouldn't sell. Oh who am I kidding - no he didn't.
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