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they're a temporary thing, you have to do virtually nothing to remove it. And you do get a
<br />lot of insulation; I think there's been studies done about what you gain from insulated glass
<br />vs. wood sash and wood storms. It would take something like 500 years or something to
<br />ever get your money out of replacements, it's silly. And you're talking about stacking a
<br />whole lot of windows down in some'guys basement, and I'm telling you, you'd better not
<br />mix them up. You'd better have it branded on those sashes and the jamb for where it went,
<br />if you try to put sash X in Y's jamb, you're going to be pulling them out and trying to figure
<br />out what's what. There's just no reason for it, your own guidelines say that if they're
<br />repairable, that's what you do. I mean, if they were, and I'm sure the owner would, I
<br />mean, that's all he wants is ventilation, he's going to have a worse situation, and you know
<br />personal preference, 'I'd rather have something new than something... 'well, this
<br />Commission is here for a reason, and you're just going to open up the flood gates. I just,
<br />not just for this house, but why should anybody, I mean just ignore this and throw it away.
<br />You're here because most people don't know what's proper, most people that own these
<br />homes, they don't know. Ifyou took an opinion poll up and down, they don't what goes
<br />into tearing old sash out, they don't know what damage you do, you gotta pull out the
<br />weights and pullies, and damaged, and you're not going to have the same hardware.
<br />There's something that I've always found difficult, though somewhat successful in doing is
<br />building age into anew product, so it looks like its 100 or 130 years old. It's hard to do,
<br />it's hard to take something brand new, and make it look like its part of, and just by that
<br />alone, they stick out. I just believe that this Commission has an absolute obligation to go
<br />with the letter of the law. I am going to tell you that the restoration of windows is not an
<br />expensive thing, it's just not. As this gentlemen said, a few hours, a few days, me working
<br />by myself can do one in a day, taking everything out, take all the glass out, take all the
<br />putty out, reglaze the glass, put the glass back in, re -rope it, paint and putty, oil the pulleys.
<br />It's a one finger operation, they were made well. The only windows I can recall that we
<br />had to go to something to replace whether than repair, was if there was afire. And I've
<br />worked on buildings that were abandoned for years, left vacant and empty and even those.
<br />I've done a lot of work for SB Heritage, $250, 000 projects for them that were uh a big
<br />portion was doors and windows. I won't take up anymore of your time. Anyone have any
<br />questions?
<br />Doolittle: I promise that I will be brief. I'm Wayne Doolittle, 407 Lamont Terrace. To me,
<br />it is not about the homeowner. It's not about me, I've lived in my house, I've lived in my
<br />house for 31 years, it's not about George or anyone else, it's about the properties
<br />themselves. We're only there temporarily so when we do things for ourselves, because we
<br />want to have them that way, it makes them all disappear for all time. I have never seen a
<br />new window that I could not tell from an old one. And in the many many houses I've
<br />looked at, new windows are new windows and old ones are old ones. You can always_ tell.
<br />I just have a feeling that what we do, that what I'm doing is a care taker of my house. It
<br />doesn't make a difference if I can see something from the street or not when you restore a
<br />propertyyou're restoring an entire property and you often restore things that you don't
<br />ever see. So it isn't about what you can see ultimately, it's about the integrity of the whole
<br />house. I would also echo the thought that if we start to do this, then we have a real
<br />problem. You're losing 20% of your heat through your windows; well 80% is going
<br />somewhere else. There are other ways of doing this, actually this house probably had
<br />shutters on it to begin with. Many people took their shutters down and put storms up and
<br />that began in the 1880's some chose to do it, some didn't. Thank you.
<br />Hostetler: I have a letter to read. This morning we received an email from Poland, from
<br />Joanie Downs Krostenko: `Dear Catherine, Greetings from Poland. It is appropriate of me
<br />to write to the members of the HPC Board re: the latest attempts by Dr. Enderle to
<br />permanently deface probably the most pristine treasure of vernacular architecture
<br />surviving in St. Joe County. As I am out of the country for the year, I can not be in
<br />attendance at the meeting on Monday. Ido not have all of their email addresses. Please,
<br />please do not let this C of A go through. How will we prevent Dr. Enderle from changing
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