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rayrunner

Windows - Looking for Suggestion

12 years ago

Hi, been looking at this forum for months for ideas on working on my 1895 house. I have a question I could not find any answer to in the forum. I have a number of big windows in my garage (addition added in the 1940's and is heated garage) with two very large windows on the north wall. I want to close the windows off but as I seen in this forum before I should wait and live in the house for awhile. I am thinking using 3/4" plywood painted to trim color as a replacement for the storm window and leave the original windows in place. Anybody done this? Any suggestion on actually doing this to minimize any impact to the window frame? Thanks in Advance.

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