The Dumpster Taketh Away and The Dumpster Giveth
I am happy everyone is happy with the new homepage, while rebuilding the site over the past couple weeks while I am on Zoom calls, yes multi tasking. I would slip away to the Railway for some human time. An hr here, and hr there. As you may recall I have been having fun with a good dumpster dive from the home being renovated across the street. WINDOWS. and yes I know they are old, but have you seen the railway? They are brand new in comparison.
The original window on the right, was very milky and the mullions are inside the gas glass. AND, even though it let light in, gave no view outside.
AND the New? 1980’s windows which are those double thick with gas inside them and just turned into piles of crap. Where as the piles of crap in the dumpster are actually reusable. mmmmm?
Lowered and a tad taller, the space at the top is work in progress
So the windows come as just windows and I put them together to make larger windows, and yes, they are West System together with screws and then more support to make them able to withstand a wind within reason. I hope.
the space opened up
the sawdust gave it a very cool effect, Now you can see the entire horizon line
As it turned out, this set of two windows, top and bottoms turned out to be the exact width of the crap window and a bit taller which allowed me to lower the fram a tad and give a nice horizon line all the way across the waterfront side of the building. a small change of a couple feet opened up an entire universe. Total investment in money for all the windows. 200.00 because I broke the glass in some before. All the trim and wood used is from stuff lying around. And that is now a million dollar view. Okay, maybe less, a lot less, but to me? Priceless.
Last night the light was amazing, and with the lowered window on the left they all now line up at the top
Oysters anyone? They are here on the pilings
The light was amazing. Real life is so, so , so much better. Okay, with an iphone.
Very nice!
Amazing transformation for a little money and some effort along with your ingenuity.
Big Improvement…beautiful Fall day too! What about Sweet Pea on the rails…oooops….I am stepping on an upcoming story….one project at a time and take time. I am paddling on the James River today….that is Going Boating small time. John in Va
Beautiful! Looks like the some windows were there from the buildings beginning & others added thru the years. Likely just the look you were after.
Exactly, its the freedom of it all that makes it fun, that and my sloppyness instantly ages it