Finding Quiet & Comfort
Even though Maggie Finnerty and her husband Don had just bought their home, they were almost ready to sell it. Until they had moved in, they didn’t realize just how much noise would filter through their windows from the nearby Northeast Portland thoroughfare and auto body shop.
Maggie slept with earplugs and still got woken up. The noise was especially hard since their infant son Max needed his naps. After three weeks, she knew she had to do something.
The windows of the 1913 Craftsman also leaked air badly, scoring the lowest possible on an air leakage test. But replacing them wasn’t an option since the original wavy leaded glass was one reason Maggie and Don fell for the house.
So the couple bought Indow inserts for the first floor bedrooms, dining room and living room, dramatically improving their quality of life. The outside sound is so muffled it doesn’t wake her up. And she achieved energy efficiency without replacing her gorgeous windows. They no longer talk about moving.
“It’s made a huge difference,” she said. Maggie loves that the inserts are nearly invisible, “Unless you know they’re there, you don’t know they’re there.”
And while Indow inserts are sometimes referred to as interior storms, she doesn’t consider them that. In her old house, she had storm windows she never once took off. In her new house, when they burned something cooking, they easily opened all the windows to catch a fresh breeze.
“Indow inserts are not like storm windows,” she said. “You pop them out and you pop them in. It takes just a second and you don’t have to go outside.”
Maggie slept with earplugs and still got woken up. The noise was especially hard since their infant son Max needed his naps. After three weeks, she knew she had to do something.
The windows of the 1913 Craftsman also leaked air badly, scoring the lowest possible on an air leakage test. But replacing them wasn’t an option since the original wavy leaded glass was one reason Maggie and Don fell for the house.
So the couple bought Indow inserts for the first floor bedrooms, dining room and living room, dramatically improving their quality of life. The outside sound is so muffled it doesn’t wake her up. And she achieved energy efficiency without replacing her gorgeous windows. They no longer talk about moving.
“It’s made a huge difference,” she said. Maggie loves that the inserts are nearly invisible, “Unless you know they’re there, you don’t know they’re there.”
And while Indow inserts are sometimes referred to as interior storms, she doesn’t consider them that. In her old house, she had storm windows she never once took off. In her new house, when they burned something cooking, they easily opened all the windows to catch a fresh breeze.
“Indow inserts are not like storm windows,” she said. “You pop them out and you pop them in. It takes just a second and you don’t have to go outside.”
