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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1965-07-22, Page 20IMO BMW UWE ••••11 Industrial Lift Truck WA Centre Street Chatham, Ontario How to prevent cash going out the window For centuries, windows were nothing more than mere holes in the wall. They had to be small because they were leaky, handmade af- fairs. Suddenly came design and manufacturing advances. Windows started to grow. Today, both traditional and contemporary homes have big window areas—often whole walls made up of win- dows. This great increase in size has made windows even more important. Of the most important parts of a home, only win- dows must operate day after day, year after year. Win- dows are essential to a sound structure and to the beauty and livability of a new home. When you know the facts of why good windows are important, you realize why it's to your advantage to make sure you have only the best windows in your home. There are just two places where the dollars you invest in a house will pay you back year after year. One is in- sulation. The other is win- dows. That's because both work constantly to cut your heating and air conditioning bills. Heat losses around leaky windows can run as high as 25% of your heating bill. In a home where the bill runs $200 a year, $50 of this may be literally "going out the window". If the sash and frames happen to be aluminum rather than wood, there would be an additional heat loss which heating engineers average at slightly over 20% —an extra $40 per year in our example. That's because aluminum conducts heat or cold a full 1,800 times as fast as wood. One big measure of a win- dow's efficiency is the amount of air that seeps in around the sash. If we sub- ject a window to a 25-mile- per-hour wind, it should not admit more than 42 cubic feet of air per foot of crack, in an hour's time. Those are minimum commercial standards established by government procedures. But Dashwood Planing Mills Ltd. produces their windows to greatly exceed these standards. Their win- dows are more than six times as efficient and "tight" as commercial standards. This exceptional tightness is typi- cal of Dashwood Windows. In the house mentioned earlier, the annual heat loss would be cut from $50 to about $8.50 with weathertight Dashwood Windows. Add Dashwood's natural insula- tion of wood sash and frame and you get extra savings. Such savings would soon make up the slight premium you pay for better windows. Thereafter these windows would actually be EARNING money for you. This holds true for all types of heating systems. CUT COSTS Air conditioning engineers say that good windows, pro- perly installed, are second only to adequate roof insula- tion in reducing the cost of home air conditioning. And, all the money you spend insulating your walls can't give you the comfort you want if your windows leak drafts and cold. Good windows make the difference between living in a comfor- table home and what may seem like a drafty barn. They keep out dirt, dust and soot. Make your home easier to keep clean. And a draft-free, clean home is a healthier home. A home much more pleasant in which to live. Windows also play a big part in determining your home's appearance—inside and out. And that's an impor- tant part in helping you sell any home. The finest, most beautiful wood windows add less than 1% to the total cost of your home. Yet re- cords show they can repay you many times over in terms of increased resale value alone. Good wood windows also make living more enjoyable, although you can't put a price tag on pleasure. It's just too precious! Good windows will contribute beauty and comfort to your life. By the same token, poor windows can be most irritat- ing. They'll bind and warp. They'll rattle and leak. You'll fume as you try to pry them open. And fret when they stick in a sudden squall. And what a headache cleaning up the dust and soot that filters into your house. Unless you can afford to replace poor quality windows after you've grown tired of them in a few years, you'll be money ahead to buy ade- quate, top-quality windows right from the start. "Must You Pound Like That?' With our compliments SCHELL INDUSTRIES LIN1! i:L; Woodstock Ontario Personalized Service Makes the Difference With 68 regular clients, Personalized Service does Make the Difference. Industrial Lift Truck keeps 132 machines under continuous preventative maintenance care offering 24-hour emergency service throughout Western Ontario. Once a month, every month, you'll see the Industrial Lift people at Dashwood Planing Mills giving a more thorough check to the eight Tow- motors than most automobiles receive in a year. INDUSTRIAL LIFT TRUCK — offering 25 years' ex- perience in material handling lift truck sales and service. DPM 8 Exeter 7 imes-Advocate