Household:
We’re busy with all sort of appointments this week to find an outfit that will bid on some new windows for the house; the place was built in 1960 when energy was cheaper or something, and the Energy Efficient part of the refinancing basically is adding on up to $8000 for house fixes that are cost-effective on energy-effective fixes.
What I am trying to do right now is to find someone to do an energy audit of the house; harder than you think, and necessary for the refinancing of the house to go through ASAP. If you have any idea of someone for the Western Chicago suburbs to do such a thing, drop me a line or call.
Window Outfit #1 and Outfit #2 came by over the last few days with presentations; our take is that Outfit #2 probably has the seriously high-quality stuff, but their prices are over twice as much as #1. #1 is a smaller business with much lower overhead, and #2 is a national chain. Susan and I figure that we’ll be here for another ten years; if we were staying here for good, we might be more tempted to go with Outfit #2 and do the house in chunks rather than all at once, but Outfit #1′s windows will do for a 10-15 year term.