Spiritwolfe
30th July 2016, 03:43 AM
For the past couple of years my partner and I have been doing home renovations. We had to replace half of our back wall including sills, joists, subfloors, windows and doors. We even had to jack the house up to do much of this work. Our house is mostly vinyl but part of the front is brick.
When I measure windows I measure from the inside of the window, from left to right ( being the width ) and the top to bottom being the height. ( W x H ) This I've always considered the correct way to measure for replacement windows.
Since we were replacing all our windows we gave those measurements to get windows made for the back of our house which has vinyl siding. When we got our windows they were ALL 1 & 1/2 inches too small on both the width and height but we couldn't wait for new ones to be made because it was already autumn and we wouldn't have had time. End result is we had to build up our frames to add the windows and they were too small for our liking but I got over it.
Now we are currently doing the front of our house and one side but no wall needs to be replaced. The big problem is that I wanted the side windows to match so called up the same company. Once more I explained to the salesperson that we want the size window from the measurements we give, explaining that all the windows last year were too small and he cuts me off telling me that they would send someone up to measure and make sure the size is right so they did. The guy saw our house and measured the existing windows.
Today our windows came and they are all too small again. The explanation I got was because there is brick moulding on the windows , they have to change the dimensions to compensate for that. The brick moulding sits on the outside of the frame and attaches to the siding. The salesperson told me that I didn't tell him we didn't have a brick house. Wth!
I replied that I didn't think I had to since the company had a professional come up and measure the windows.
I think the real reason they do this is to save money on making the windows and save money on installation. With making the windows smaller and compensating with brick moulding they just have to cut the old window out and put the new one on and not have to worry about j channels and siding or brickwork.
I've never in my life ever heard of windows being measured the way this company does it.
How would you handle this? When trying to explain once more that WE were installing the windows ourselves, it didn't seem to register and he just yelled at me.
I wasn't really sure where to post this because I didn't see a home improvement section but what ticked me off the most was that because I'm a woman my concern is dismissed like I don't have clue what I'm talking about.
Anyway I had to rant for a while. :mad3: :whip:
When I measure windows I measure from the inside of the window, from left to right ( being the width ) and the top to bottom being the height. ( W x H ) This I've always considered the correct way to measure for replacement windows.
Since we were replacing all our windows we gave those measurements to get windows made for the back of our house which has vinyl siding. When we got our windows they were ALL 1 & 1/2 inches too small on both the width and height but we couldn't wait for new ones to be made because it was already autumn and we wouldn't have had time. End result is we had to build up our frames to add the windows and they were too small for our liking but I got over it.
Now we are currently doing the front of our house and one side but no wall needs to be replaced. The big problem is that I wanted the side windows to match so called up the same company. Once more I explained to the salesperson that we want the size window from the measurements we give, explaining that all the windows last year were too small and he cuts me off telling me that they would send someone up to measure and make sure the size is right so they did. The guy saw our house and measured the existing windows.
Today our windows came and they are all too small again. The explanation I got was because there is brick moulding on the windows , they have to change the dimensions to compensate for that. The brick moulding sits on the outside of the frame and attaches to the siding. The salesperson told me that I didn't tell him we didn't have a brick house. Wth!
I replied that I didn't think I had to since the company had a professional come up and measure the windows.
I think the real reason they do this is to save money on making the windows and save money on installation. With making the windows smaller and compensating with brick moulding they just have to cut the old window out and put the new one on and not have to worry about j channels and siding or brickwork.
I've never in my life ever heard of windows being measured the way this company does it.
How would you handle this? When trying to explain once more that WE were installing the windows ourselves, it didn't seem to register and he just yelled at me.
I wasn't really sure where to post this because I didn't see a home improvement section but what ticked me off the most was that because I'm a woman my concern is dismissed like I don't have clue what I'm talking about.
Anyway I had to rant for a while. :mad3: :whip: