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then staff recommends the restoration approach as it preserves more of the original fabric of this significant, land marked home. Catherine Hostetler circulated photos and plans previously unavailable due to technical difficulties with the HPC copier. The Chair recognized the homeowner, George Enderle to speak, and asked the homeowner to limit his remarks to five minutes or fewer. SP: Maybe we should clarify with the homeowner... what exactly are they asking, are they asking for approval for two proposals, one as an alternative ,all for one, or all for the other? It's very difficult to understand what question is being presented to the Commission. From Mark 746-749 on tape, all conversation is inaudible. Cause unknown. LP: The chair recognized the homeowner/presenter to approach the podium for his presentation not to exceed the five minute rule, please. GE: Good evening, my name is George Enderle, and I am the proud owner of the Anderson House. I've spent about two months studying what we can do to fix the problem of our windows and was very glad to have the help of Wayne Doolittle, a specialist from Home Depot, from my carpenter and also from an architect from Notre Dame who works especially with windows. I think that there are three goals which I would like to achieve. First, to maintain the appearance of the house as it is today, but to keep it as it is. Second, to improve the quality of the windows, and third to increase the quality of living inside the house. I checked the first option of restoration and that means to remove the windows and the glass. Some are broken to repair the window and replace the glass and to repair the window frame, and replace the frame and window with storm windows. That's quite a long process and I also got some valuable information about storm windows. If storm windows are made of pine wood, they won't last. If they are made of metal then they do not insulate enough. It is necessary to open storm windows from the inside - when we use the second floor. The wood frame of a storm window is relatively broad for those' windows which can be taken out from inside. I asked my carpenter who has just replaced the storm windows of the Innisfree Bed and Breakfast here on Colfax, and he says that they are ten years old, but are junk and had to be replaced. So, my proposal with regard to replacement means to remove the window with glass, and to install the replacement windows. The estimates that Igave in my letter are not quite correct because in the meantime Ifound out that the restoration per window will cost about $750.00. And the replacement per window will be also be $750.00 or maybe $700.00. I think that with replacement windows, I can achieve all three of my goals which I stated. There is no change of appearance, and the house never had storm windows. I have a photo of the house forty or fifty years ago, and there are no storm windows on the house. So, it would be a change to put storm windows in. My solution would be to improve the quality of the windows by using the aluminum clad which would last for twenty years guaranteed, with (unknown) filled with argon. It also improves the quality of living inside except that the light that I have inside will (unknown) and it will be easier to open the windows in summer and in winter time. That's why having studied both options seriously, I would like to ask you to permit me to put replacement windows in. LP: The chair recognizes commissioners with questions. MC: Question unintelligible. GE: No, that is a picture from Wayne Doolittle from a company in Iowa. MC: What we don't seem to have here, in my estimation, is an understanding of...the square feet of glass and trim should be identical to what you have in there now. If they've wider woodworking on the outside, that will change the whole aspect of the windows. And we've seen nothing like that as far as I know. Did we? That would tell us that whatever it is that you want to order that it will look exactly like it does now... in every window. There are many companies that do exactly that, that copy them exactly. They'll still have all of those features that you're talking about wanting, to open the windows and everything else. But what you do have to make sure, and there area lot of them that are very very good at this. But, I don't see how I can vote on this 3