The Wingham Advance-Times, 1985-11-20, Page 28Jim used to charge $14 to
put on the storms, which
included washing them, and
washing the outside of the
regular windows, storing the
screens. It took him a couple,
of hours. In the spring, he'd
take them off, wash every-
thing, again, store them, for
$10.
The price went up steadily
after he went to greener
pastures, and the quality of
the workmen went steadily
downhill. Some of the young
guys, I hired took twice as
long and charged twice as
much. Sometimes the win-
dow would stick and they'd
leave it with a one -inch gap
around half of it. One bird
put his fist through a storm
and bled all over the place.
, Another dropped one and I
glassed half my front lawn.
Last year, I had a young
fellow, newly started in the
cleaning -up of properties,
raking leaves, that sort of
thing. I gave hin>I the job of
doing the estate, provided
he'd do the storms.
He looked pretty dubious,
but agreed. Brought his wife
around on her day off to hold
the ladder. Well, he got them
all, but he was pea-green and.
his legs were rubber, when
he'd finished. He swore he'd
never do them again.
By this time it was costing
me almost $100 a year to get
the brutes on and off. Not to
mention a great deal of
harassment from the distaff
side, and a frantic search
for a putter•onn'er. Nobody
on unerhployment insurance
was vaguely interested.
All this, combined with the
energy crisis propaganda,
made me cave in, and we
. had aluminum storms put
on. I could have paid $100 a
year for the next 13 years if
I'd stuck with the old wooden
ones:
"But look what you'll save
on fuel," you say. That's
what they all say. Probably
50 bucks a year. "It will in-
crease the value of your
house," someone else says.
Maybe. By a few hundred.
But it's not the money that
bothers me. You can't take it
with you. Seems to me you
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change a bulb in the kitchen,
with someone holding the
ladder.
There was no way I was
going to climb 30 feet up a
ladder, carrying a 70 pound
storm window, and punch
and hammer it into place.
I always had a vision of a
wind catching the storm
broadside when I was half -
•way up, and taking me off for
a hang-gliding trip.
That actually happened to
one chap who was doing the
job one fall. A gust caught
him and he sailed off the
ladder, landed on his feet
like a cat, still clutching the
window, and nothing was
damaged. He just grinned.
That was Jim Fletcher, a
young fellow who was
completely unafraid of work.
Made his living at cleaning
floors, windows, etc. and
built up a nice little business,
scrubbing out banks and
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You don't see too many
merchants or bank manag-
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do you? Might do them good.
can't take a house with you
either.
No, it's not the money; it's
the stress. Those windows
have to be washed spring
and fall, maybe a few times
between.
According to the brochure,
and the dealer, there's
nothing to it. You just tear
off the wooden inside frame,
hoist your inside window,
push this, pull that, and the
storm comes in.
You wash'Tt. Then you get
out on the ledge, hanging on
by one hand and one foot, 30
feet off the ground, and clean
the outside. After which, if
you get back in, you just zip,
whip, slide, lower your inside
window, and hammer on
your now splintered wooden
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My wife used to have a girl
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her and they wrestled with
those things, got them stuck,
got them in but not "on the
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screen up and let the storm
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