Windows: No Pane, No Gain

Clearstory

This Old House

History, Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 726 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

We go to great lengths to make our walls airtight and well-insulated, and then we turn around and put big holes in them. Windows. They look simple, but they are highly-engineered machines… pulleys and weights, argon gas, solar coatings and more. Architect Don Powers helps us decode R-value, U-factors and the typical window label, architectural historian Elizabeth Milnarik traces the history of the window, and This Old House general contractor Tom Silva reminds us that old windows are sometimes worth saving. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.6	A lot of work goes into protecting our homes from the weather outside.
0:39.3	You have got layers that make up every wall.
0:42.3	You've got drywall, insulation, plywood, house wrap, and inciting.
0:46.3	And all of those things, when they come together, well, they do a really good job.
0:51.3	But then, what do we do?
0:53.3	We cut giant holes into those very walls, sometimes even in the roof.
0:59.8	Because at its most basic level, that's what a window is. A hole in your house.
1:08.1	But there's obviously a lot more to it than that, because windows are some of the most complex parts of our homes, and they have to be because we ask them to do so much.
1:17.7	We ask them to keep us comfortable and safe during all types of weather, and we want them to make our homes bright and more beautiful.
1:29.3	From this old house, this is Clear Story.
1:32.3	Your home in a new light.
1:35.3	I'm Kevin O'Connor.
1:37.3	Today, we're looking at one of the most incredible machines in our homes,
1:42.3	The Window. incredible machines in our homes, the window.
1:50.9	We've been putting windows in our homes for centuries.
1:55.6	Some of the earliest examples were simply openings in the roof or wall,
2:03.6	where we used everything from animal hide to wood to keep the weather and the critters out. Then we started making windows with glass. Don Powers is someone who knows a lot about what glass does and doesn't do
2:11.2	in our windows. He's an architect who specs windows for large commercial and residential
2:16.3	projects, but also for his own house in
2:19.1	Rhode Island. And that was our recent Jamestown project on the show last season.
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