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spirit and the letter of the guidelines. The spirit and the letter. Namely to preserve the
<br />appearance of the house, I don't change anything, nothing is changed, the frame is not changed,
<br />the color is not changed, nothing. I will improve the quality with premium windows, premium,
<br />not just one glass. And thirdly, I will have a home in which I can live in wintertime. I don't have
<br />to go to Florida. So I would appreciate from you that you reconsider my arguments, and I thank
<br />you for your understanding.
<br />LP: The Chair will now recognize Commissioners with questions.
<br />JS: I'm sorry I've lost my voice, but I would like to say that after the last meeting I did go out to
<br />Professor Enderle's house with his contractor and I did look at all of the windows to understand
<br />exactly what the problem was. If you will look at the picture here, you will see why the storm
<br />windows will not work There is no built in inset to put the storm windows in. It would interfere
<br />with the decorative trim, the pilasters which are part of the decorative molding of the windows
<br />itself. The use of storm windows in the traditional way of storm windows is not feasible, it simply
<br />wouldn't work. Physically it wouldn't work, aesthetically it wouldn't work and historically,
<br />totally incorrect. What he is suggesting then, the other option that we were looking at with the
<br />contractor is using the sash, the existing sash, and installing insulated glass in the existing sash. .
<br />Unfortunately, Professor Enderle has said, the existing sash is not all rectangular, it is not
<br />square in the corners, and that's part of the problem with the windows as they currently exist.
<br />They don't meet at the top and there's air blowing through from the windows, due to the sash not
<br />fitting properly in the existing frames. The glass has oozed as glass will do, the frames have
<br />sagged, and the window frames have gone out of plumb. So there is nothing in the existing
<br />windows that actually works. Furthermore, the weight of putting insulated glass in the existing
<br />sash would make the windows unusable, because the weights that operate those things are
<br />calibrated for the existing single pane windows so those existing sash could not be reused, which
<br />I think that we'd all hoped would be used. So the last option, which he is proposing is to install
<br />the aluminum clad windows, is in fact the premium window on the market now a days. Each one
<br />will be custom designed to fit in each space so that it will be absolutely appropriate. I have
<br />calculated the difference from the drawing which I asked him to prepare for us, which he had
<br />done, the difference because Martha had brought it up the last time, about the difference in the
<br />total percentage of glass-which sometimes look very strange; and the total difference is less than
<br />inch in two feet. I don't think that you can tell that difference. Furthermore, the total
<br />percentage of square footage difference is less than one tenth of one percent square foot. Slightly
<br />less than the existing, I don't think that is going to show. And, as he said, the windows with the
<br />arches, the glass is not arched in those windows; it's the framework that's arched. Its part of the
<br />trim on the outside, so to speak. So I am very much suggesting that we allow him to....
<br />TK: I'd like to call for Orders of the Day. I don't know that this is the location in the agenda for
<br />commissioners' discussion; I think that this is the point....
<br />JS: I'm telling you that I don't need to ask him because I've already talked to him, that's why I'm
<br />saying what I'm saying.
<br />LP: I had recognized Commissioners with comments or questions, actually with questions for the
<br />property owner, but she....
<br />TK: Right.
<br />LP: Good point.
<br />JS: So I don't know what else 1 can say, I think that he has made an earnest effort to produce, as
<br />he said, a livable substitute unless we want to forbid him to do anything and to live with his drafty
<br />single pane windows.
<br />LP: I'd like to interject at this point and askAmy, are her coriimentsjust now will that be clear
<br />on the tape?
<br />AH: Absolutely, I'm at maximum volume.
<br />LP Ok.
<br />JS: I'm so sorry, this just came on me yesterday.
<br />LP: Its ok, it's riveting. It's especially appropriate for an October meeting.
<br />JS: And I'm running out ofsteam.
<br />LP: I'd like to ask other commissioners if they had any other questions.
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