nJb wrote:
Kalera Stratton wrote:

In article ,
"jk" wrote:
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I'll double it...

Hey, if you guys like old glass, check your local salvage yards. The
latest fad perpetuated by the vinyl industry is to convince people to
rip out their perfectly good century-old wood windows and replace them
with crappy vinyl windows which are supposed to be more
energy-efficient, but usually aren't. (The victims of this fraud could
have weatherized their beautiful old windows for half the cost and twice
the aesthetic appeal.)

So, the old windows end up in a dumpster (yours for free) or a salvage
yard (yours for a song) complete with all that lovely old rippled glass.
Until three months ago I worked at a company with a salvage yard, and we
had to turn people away with whole windows still in their frames,
because we had so many we couldn't take more, and that was despite
*giving* them away, literally. The non-profit salvage yard down the
street from my house has hundreds of old windows with their original
glass, all dirt-cheap.

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-Kalera

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http://www.beadwife.com
auctions at http://www.snurl.com/1sfe


Where are you? Old window frames fetch a premium price here in Salt
Lake.

Portland, OR. Our salvage contacts in a number of other regions are
experiencing the same phenomenon, but if it's not the case in your area,
perhaps the vinyl-window sellers haven't hit yet... or maybe they hit
earlier, and people are trying to undo the damage.

In which case, you're in a prime position to take a truck to either the
NW or the Midwest, and load up on windows for resale in your area!