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Speaker 1: start rolling in.
Speaker 2: Let me introduce our awesome team. Sam is on.
Speaker 3: The board good morning, saying good morning, Dean. How are
Speaker 3: you doing today. I'm doing well. I'm doing well, got
Speaker 3: a good night's sleep. I had a lovely dinner last
Speaker 3: night with some dear friends, clients who have become dear friends,
Speaker 3: as so many any of our most of our clients
Speaker 3: do actually working on the third project in a row
Speaker 3: now for this one particular client, little beach house out
Speaker 3: in Portwaanimi out in the Channel Harbor area, Channel Islands,
Speaker 3: Harbury and great little beach house built in the seventies
Speaker 3: and it's been in their family for all these years
Speaker 3: and not many changes have taken place since the seventies,
Speaker 3: so it is just ripe.
Speaker 1: It's ripe for updating and some changes. So it's a classic.
Speaker 1: I mean you drive up and you know, lava rock
Speaker 1: on the front of the house, and.
Speaker 2: Does it still have the shag carpet.
Speaker 1: No, no, they did get rid of the shag carpet.
Speaker 1: But you know, apart from that, you got the vibe right,
Speaker 1: it's just totally right there. And so there are so
Speaker 1: many tweaks and changes to make, and I just I
Speaker 1: love sitting down with clients and really talking through what
Speaker 1: they want to eight out of the place. And you know,
Speaker 1: as always, some revelations along the way as we kind
Speaker 1: of you know, have a conversation about well, how's this
Speaker 1: going to fit you best, and some things that really
Speaker 1: surprised them along the way. So it really really good
Speaker 1: night last night. And then just went out and had
Speaker 1: some dinner and talked about some really just very personal
Speaker 1: things and some special things about their family and our life.
Speaker 1: And anyway, it was great, great evening. The Dodgers won
Speaker 1: yesterday long game, rain delay in Atlanta long game, and
Speaker 1: we got right to the eighth inning and we were
Speaker 1: just like, all right, let's end this thing. And then
Speaker 1: the rain started rolling in and we had to wait
Speaker 1: an hour and a half before we finished off just
Speaker 1: you know, six strikes and that was it. So anyway,
Speaker 1: it was a good day. It's going to be a
Speaker 1: good morning today. Got some work ahead of us today
Speaker 1: as well, and yeah, we're pretty jazzed. So how is
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Speaker 4: My friend fantastic. I have my son here today, so
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Speaker 4: calls this morning. Looks like he's taking a call now.
Speaker 4: I just want to let you guys know. You know,
Speaker 4: Saturday morning, it's a great time to call in. Traffic
Speaker 4: is like eight three three, to ask Dean. Some people question,
Speaker 4: they're like, would you do why would you do? Call
Speaker 4: ins at six o'clock in the morning on Saturday?
Speaker 1: You know what, I understand the logic, but the fact
Speaker 1: of the matter is there's a lot of us who
Speaker 1: are up and about and it's just a special time.
Speaker 1: And I love calls on Saturday mornings. They just got
Speaker 1: a great tone to them. Eileen Gonzalez at the news desk,
Speaker 1: Good morning, Eileen, Good morning, Dean. How's it going good?
Speaker 1: How are you doing good?
Speaker 2: Thanks? Everything good? What's our tea of choice this morning?
Speaker 2: You know, I haven't had time to get anything to drink,
Speaker 2: and I'm parched, all right, you got to get out
Speaker 2: there and get that going. Yeah, I'll get some I'll
Speaker 2: get some green going. All right, sounds good now.
Speaker 1: Normally I would say, sitting across the table from me,
Speaker 1: my better half, my design partner, my best friend in
Speaker 1: all the world, Tina is here. But I have given her.
Speaker 1: I have given her like I'm in charge. Tina's taking
Speaker 1: the morning off. We'll probably see her in a little
Speaker 1: bit later, but she is taking a well deserved sleep
Speaker 1: in today. So Tina will be here shortly. And as
Speaker 1: for the rest of you, We've got some calls coming
Speaker 1: in and I just want to dive right in, so
Speaker 1: we will go to the phones. Kfi, Dean Sharp, the
Speaker 1: house whisper, Welcome home, Happy Saturday morning to you, my friend.
Speaker 1: Whether your home is a condo or a cottage or
Speaker 1: a castle matters not to me. I am here to
Speaker 1: help you take it to the next level. Like I said,
Speaker 1: last night, we were having dinner with some dear friends
Speaker 1: who are also design clients, and we were having a
Speaker 1: really really interesting discussion just about the whole idea of design.
Speaker 1: They were kind of interviewing me. They were saying, I
Speaker 1: want to get inside your head about your design career,
Speaker 1: and I was talking about some of the more interesting
Speaker 1: facets of how I ended up doing what I'm doing,
Speaker 1: and you were one of the things I had to
Speaker 1: tell them was, hey, you know, one of the things
Speaker 1: I realized along the way, Yeah, I broke into the
Speaker 1: design world through big luxury estates and those are lovely.
Speaker 1: I mean they're lovely in the sense that, you know,
Speaker 1: when you're doing these massive costs and ultra custom luxury
Speaker 1: projects as an artist, you know, a great client becomes
Speaker 1: a great patron and just says, you know, here, unleash,
Speaker 1: unleash your creativity in this area. But the reality is
Speaker 1: that every space, every space has its constraints, has its challenges,
Speaker 1: and I don't really care whether we're designing, you know,
Speaker 1: a small shed for somebody or literally a castle along
Speaker 1: the way, because it's all design. It all, you know,
Speaker 1: pulls out the best in me. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just a you know, I come from a lower
Speaker 1: middle class, blue collar working family.
Speaker 2: That's the that's the area.
Speaker 1: You know, just living in the suburbs and living in
Speaker 1: you know, living among middle class, mainstream homeowners is for
Speaker 1: my own personal life is what I'm most comfortable with.
Speaker 1: It's where we always live it's where we always will live,
Speaker 1: I hope, uh uh and uh. I personally, I am never gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, end up in the house behind the big
Speaker 1: gates up on the hill, although I've got no problem
Speaker 1: designing one for you. And so I just love designing homes.
Speaker 1: I love the challenges and uh and I love all
Speaker 1: the facets of it. And so yeah, it was a
Speaker 1: really great conversation. And at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: the fact of the matter is, when I tell you,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter to me whether you're living in a
Speaker 1: condo or a little cottage or a castle. The challenges
Speaker 1: are there, and good architecture belongs and should belong to everybody,
Speaker 1: all right. So that's how I feel about that. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go to the phones. Now I've talked enough that
Speaker 1: maybe I won't get this whole call in, but let's
Speaker 1: talk to Carter.
Speaker 2: Hey, Carter, welcome home. Oh thank you. How can I
Speaker 2: help you, my friend?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 6: Okay, Well, I've got a thirty year old home and
Speaker 6: which on the exterior. For some of their features on
Speaker 6: the exterior, they glued foam to the stucco and then
Speaker 6: they put like a single coat of colored color code
Speaker 6: of stucco over that. So now thirty years later, some
Speaker 6: of this U the phone is disintegrade, I guess because
Speaker 6: of the UV light, And I wonder what are your
Speaker 6: thoughts on that? Do I just have to scrape the
Speaker 6: whole thing off of there? And I'm not quite sure
Speaker 6: what the best way would be to handle that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how extensive is it? Is it just a couple
Speaker 1: of areas? Is it happening a lot? And the foam?
Speaker 1: Was it damaged? Did it experience some impact or is
Speaker 1: it just literally kind of breaking down.
Speaker 6: It looks like it's just breaking down. It's in one
Speaker 6: specific area really, where it's about four inches wide and
Speaker 6: about fifteen inches long, all along the bottom of this
Speaker 6: one feature. I don't know if they call that salting
Speaker 6: out or what it is. But do you have any
Speaker 6: ideas on that? Should I scrape it all off and
Speaker 6: replace the foam? I don't know?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So, yeah, this is a it's an interesting problem. Probably,
Speaker 1: you know, I'll just cut to the chase for you.
Speaker 1: The probably the best thing you can do is get
Speaker 1: a stucco company out that works with foam plantons. And
Speaker 1: that's what you want to tell them on the phone.
Speaker 1: You says, I've got phone hoam planton surrounds around my windows.
Speaker 1: You know, I've got a house with the house built
Speaker 1: in the eighties.
Speaker 2: Or nineties, early nineties, yeah, yeah, early nineties.
Speaker 1: Tell them I've got foam plantons and and I've got
Speaker 1: an area where it's degrading, and you know, can you
Speaker 1: guys come out and give me a price for that?
Speaker 1: And they will, they will, and they can patch that in,
Speaker 1: uh and and restucc of it and get you back
Speaker 1: in shape.
Speaker 2: But the the issue with.
Speaker 1: Foam plantons, it's still being used today still. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a technology that's advancing. But in the eighties just
Speaker 1: starting I remember, I literally remember foam companies coming around
Speaker 1: to job sites selling their wares, so kind of like
Speaker 1: door to door salesmen with their cases of stuff and saying,
Speaker 1: take a look at what we can do. And the
Speaker 1: idea is that it was going to make trims around
Speaker 1: windows and doors and around roof eves fancier. It was
Speaker 1: going to be fancier for less cost. It was going
Speaker 1: to have the contours of what we would normally do
Speaker 1: in stone stone work, except you just have these hot
Speaker 1: knife cut foam pieces that have a certain shape and
Speaker 1: they could be glued on, attached well to the house,
Speaker 1: and then just stuccoed right over and they have their
Speaker 1: own coating of stucco and fibrous. Now what we found
Speaker 1: as years went on, Like, for instance, today if you
Speaker 1: find you can actually find these pieces sitting in the
Speaker 1: big box store, they sell them on the shelf at times.
Speaker 1: But now they come out of the factory with a
Speaker 1: fibrous coating on them, pre stucco fibrous coating, so they're
Speaker 1: a little bit more resilient to begin with, and then
Speaker 1: a finished coat of stucco gets rolled over them, so
Speaker 1: they're lasting longer today than they did in the eighties.
Speaker 1: But the fact of the matter is that it actually,
Speaker 1: it actually is an easy thing to repair, simply because
Speaker 1: even if it's not like, oh, well, does your company
Speaker 1: have access to this shape, it's not even really that.
Speaker 1: A lot of foam stucco installation companies will have blades
Speaker 1: what we call hot knives, that they can bend into
Speaker 1: shape in the shape of your foam and then cut
Speaker 1: a new piece of foam out of a foam block
Speaker 1: that's just sitting there, Cut a new piece, burn, melt
Speaker 1: it through to match your foam, and then adhere it
Speaker 1: on and then restuckle it over. So the good news is, yes,
Speaker 1: it can be fixed. You need to call a company
Speaker 1: that kind of it is familiar with and uses foam plantons.
Speaker 1: That's the that's the category of what you're talking about,
Speaker 1: and they'll fix it up for you.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Am I thrilled about them myself? You know, I get it.
Speaker 1: I get the idea. I just wasn't convinced. I never
Speaker 1: have been fully convinced that they're the they're the best
Speaker 1: way to go for that kind of thing. Because if
Speaker 1: we're trying to emulate stone again, of course me right,
Speaker 1: I'm a purist when it comes to this. If we're
Speaker 1: trying to emulate a stone finish, then I'd rather you
Speaker 1: actually have a smooth finish on the plantons around and
Speaker 1: not a rough stucco finish. It could still be stucco,
Speaker 1: but I want them to be smooth with little lines
Speaker 1: in them, so that we're actually emulating stone and it's
Speaker 1: not just more stucco except in a fancy shape.
Speaker 2: But that's does that make sense? But that's just me.
Speaker 1: That's just me being picky about architecture. But from a
Speaker 1: builder side, it's the builder in me that's answering your question. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can have that done, Carter. Carter, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for the call and for the question. Good luck
Speaker 1: with that. You want to talk to a stucco company
Speaker 1: that specializes in installing stone foam plantons, and they're out
Speaker 1: there because they're still being readily used in a larger
Speaker 1: house production and developments. All right, y'all, when we come back,
Speaker 1: more of your calls and some tidbits from me too.
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Speaker 1: Let me give the number out because we've got plenty
Speaker 1: of room on the board for you. Eight three to
Speaker 1: three two ask Dean eight three to three the numeral
Speaker 1: two ask Dean eight three three to ask Dean. That's
Speaker 1: the number to reach me at As always, Saturday morning
Speaker 1: is just a light traffic on the phone, So really,
Speaker 1: if you've been scratching at something that you've wanted to
Speaker 1: talk about regarding your home. It's a great time to
Speaker 1: call in. Let's go back to the phones. I want
Speaker 1: to talk to Adam. Hey Adam, welcome home.
Speaker 5: Hey Dean, good morning, great to hear, great to talk
Speaker 5: to you. Listening for a long time. Usually right after
Speaker 5: Coast to coast, I figured i'll give you a call
Speaker 5: this morning.
Speaker 2: Oh great, I'm thrilled that you have. How can I help?
Speaker 5: So I have a little idea to upgrade my house.
Speaker 5: My house is just given an idea just to give
Speaker 5: you're a reugh just catch up. Nineteen year old house
Speaker 5: to lenar home. So it's it's one of those homes
Speaker 5: they kind of they all kind of every third fourth
Speaker 5: house looks the same. Right, one story U two windows
Speaker 5: facing the street. Rest of the windows are you know,
Speaker 5: sides of the house, back of the house. This is
Speaker 5: where I need some input. I don't know if going
Speaker 5: from white window frame you know your typical plastics two
Speaker 5: aluminum uh finish type windows, sliding door, you know, sliding
Speaker 5: door that leads into the backyard. I have a wife
Speaker 5: that works for a company who can actually make them
Speaker 5: for me, or I can just find it from someone else.
Speaker 5: But my question is, what do you think about a
Speaker 5: house that you know different from the neighborhood. I think
Speaker 5: I would be the only one in the neighborhood with
Speaker 5: black windows. But going from plastic, the typical plastic white
Speaker 5: what everybody has, to aluminum black finish windows, which my
Speaker 5: wife's company sells to They usually sell those two higher
Speaker 5: end homes, you know Melion, Doar Holmes, Humilia Dollar homes
Speaker 5: out of that, you know, Court and all that. So
Speaker 5: that's her clientele, and so I'm able to get them
Speaker 5: from her at a great at a great deal. But
Speaker 5: I don't know if it'll fit. What do you think?
Speaker 5: That's kind of why I'm kind of a little bit
Speaker 5: hesitant to pull the trigger. What do you think that
Speaker 5: would that add value to the home? Would it be
Speaker 5: a good choice long term going from plastic to dark
Speaker 5: metal finish?
Speaker 6: What do you think?
Speaker 2: All right? Great question? Great question.
Speaker 1: Uh So, if you're asking the custom home designer what
Speaker 1: what I think about making your home unique, you're going
Speaker 1: to get my vote, You're going to get my two
Speaker 1: thumbs up. From the very beginning, the whole subject of
Speaker 1: white windows on a house is kind of you know,
Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with it, and so I want to
Speaker 1: be really careful not to step on anybody's toe. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've got white windows on my house as well. But
Speaker 1: but the fact of the matter is it's really the
Speaker 1: industry the tail wagging the dog, as it were. And again,
Speaker 1: I was talking about the dinner we were having with
Speaker 1: our clients last night. That's one of the things that
Speaker 1: we were talking about, how how the industry dictates a
Speaker 1: certain thing for from its own purposes, not because oh,
Speaker 1: this is the right color of window to put into
Speaker 1: a home. But there are completely they're usually completely different
Speaker 1: reasons why a home component in a tract home environment
Speaker 1: ends up becoming a certain thing, and then you just
Speaker 1: kind of design your way around it. You make the
Speaker 1: best of it. So the question of whether a dark
Speaker 1: framed window works in a home U is really I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's an absolutely, it's it's a viable question, and
Speaker 1: the only answer is whether you take a look at
Speaker 1: it in the style of your home and whether there
Speaker 1: are other components that will complement it. And a lot
Speaker 1: of people are under the belief that, oh, well, if
Speaker 1: you go dark frame metal window, first of all, it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's that's that's like a contemporary look.
Speaker 2: That's a that's a total. That's not true at all.
Speaker 2: It's not true at all.
Speaker 1: It is in fact, you know, we put dark frame
Speaker 1: windows in traditional homes, colonial homes, we put them in
Speaker 1: farmhouse looks, ranch house looks. I have put dark frame
Speaker 1: windows in Spanish med look. I mean just about every
Speaker 1: imaginable style of home can be designed to have dark
Speaker 1: frame windows look absolutely stunning and gorgeous, and talk about
Speaker 1: offsetting the vibe of the house. The material of the
Speaker 1: window for me, is secondary, entirely secondary. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you we we're living in an age in which uh, well,
Speaker 1: you know what. Here's the thing, Adam, I'm looking at
Speaker 1: the clock and I'm getting tapped on the shoulder here
Speaker 1: that I should go to a break. Can you hang
Speaker 1: tight with me because I want to give this a
Speaker 1: really full answer so everybody understands us. So I can
Speaker 1: I pop you on hold and we'll come back right
Speaker 1: after the break and I'm gonna give my full blown
Speaker 1: answer to this one. No problem, all right, Adam, you
Speaker 1: hang tight. We're going to talk about white windows. Where
Speaker 1: do they even come from?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 1: Why are most windows white? I will explain that to you,
Speaker 1: and I will explain to Adam why I think it's
Speaker 1: probably a great idea if he wants to go dark frame.
Speaker 1: But as long as it works with the style, all
Speaker 1: of that and more KFI. Dean sharp the house whisper,
Speaker 1: welcome home, Thanks for joining us. It's an all call
Speaker 1: Saturday morning. There's room on the board for you. The
Speaker 1: number to reach me eight three three two ask Dean
Speaker 1: eight three three the numeral to ask Dean. I want
Speaker 1: to get back to Adam. Make sure I didn't hang
Speaker 1: up on him. Adam, you're still with me?
Speaker 5: Man? Ye here?
Speaker 2: All right. Adam is taking a bold move.
Speaker 1: He wants to up great the windows on his home
Speaker 1: and get rid of the potentially get rid of the
Speaker 1: white vinyl windows that it came with. And he's got
Speaker 1: an inside connection via his wife, who you should give
Speaker 1: me her number, so I can have that inside connection
Speaker 1: as well, you know, with a high end aluminum window company,
Speaker 1: and you know the kind that we would normally use
Speaker 1: for you know, larger estate projects and things like that,
Speaker 1: beach houses and all the like. And so the question
Speaker 1: is should I replace the white windows on my home
Speaker 1: with a darker frame, black frame, bronze frame. You know,
Speaker 1: whatever the window and is it the right vibe? And
Speaker 1: so I was saying right before the break that for me,
Speaker 1: the material of the window itself is secondary. It's not irrelevant, obviously,
Speaker 1: but it's secondary from a design perspective, because I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm just looking for the look and uh. And the
Speaker 1: fact of the matter is, architecturally, a dark frame window
Speaker 1: looks great and and can look great on just about
Speaker 1: any imaginable style. I've put them in any I mean,
Speaker 1: old world, new world. They're not just a contemporary window,
Speaker 1: regardless of what the interweb tells you. Uh, they can be.
Speaker 1: They can accommodate just about any look at all. And
Speaker 1: so two thumbs up. You just evaluate the home and
Speaker 1: give it a give it a you know, give it
Speaker 1: a vibe. Take a take a photo of your home
Speaker 1: printed out and uh and literally you know, color in
Speaker 1: with a sharpie, uh, the white frame windows, and stare at.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm all for this. I do these perspectives
Speaker 1: for clients all the time. They're like, what would my
Speaker 1: house look like if I had this on the outside.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, let's take a photograph of it. I'll
Speaker 1: photo shop in that color or that and we can
Speaker 1: all take a look at it and you can decide
Speaker 1: for yourself. But I'm telling you right now, it's a
Speaker 1: good look and it's almost always a good move. Now,
Speaker 1: the reason why most windows are white is because most
Speaker 1: windows in most tracked homes that have been built in
Speaker 1: the last thirty years are vinyl. Vinyl is not a
Speaker 1: strong material. Okay, now, it doesn't mean your windows are
Speaker 1: falling apart, but that's why the frames on a vinyl
Speaker 1: window are so thick, because vinyl is a relatively soft material.
Speaker 1: So vinyl windows by definition have wider sashes, wider frames,
Speaker 1: wider divider lights, and mullions because it takes more. Vinyl
Speaker 1: takes more material to make a strong frame. An aluminum
Speaker 1: is a much stronger material, and you can get away
Speaker 1: with a thinner frame, which means you'll have more glass,
Speaker 1: you'll have more light coming into the house, and so on. Now,
Speaker 1: the other reason why wind vinyl windows are white is
Speaker 1: because number one, it's the literally the least expense. You know,
Speaker 1: the the vinyl is naturally white. It's the least expensive
Speaker 1: uh manufacturing process white some vinyl windows, some companies make
Speaker 1: them tan or beige. You can get and a few
Speaker 1: a handful produce black or darker bronze windows, but let
Speaker 1: me tell you they are considerably more expensive than your
Speaker 1: standard vinyl window. And it's not because of the color. Well,
Speaker 1: it's because of the color. It's it's it's not the
Speaker 1: color that's expensive. The reason why you don't see black
Speaker 1: vinyl windows is because vinyl is not a strong material.
Speaker 1: It's a soft material, and a black window attracts heat
Speaker 1: to itself, and so black vinyl windows soften in bright
Speaker 1: sunlight more so than a white vinyl window, which reflects
Speaker 1: that light. That black window absorbs light, it absorbs heat,
Speaker 1: and then the material starts off and the window breaks down.
Speaker 1: So a black vinyl window has to have reinforcement on
Speaker 1: the inside that a white vinyl window does not have.
Speaker 1: Therefore it's a more expensive window. So this is why
Speaker 1: the majority of homes have white windows, not because the
Speaker 1: god of architecture said white windows are the best look,
Speaker 1: but simply because the building industry is like, hey, you
Speaker 1: know what, we can produce these for cheap, So guess
Speaker 1: what everybody gets white? And that's pretty much what I
Speaker 1: call the tail wagging the dog in tracked home development.
Speaker 1: That's just the way it is okay, and everybody gets
Speaker 1: used to it and we all make do with it
Speaker 1: and it's all understandable. So for those of you who
Speaker 1: are thinking about it, here's the one thing I will
Speaker 1: tell you, Adam. And it sounds like your wife has
Speaker 1: a line on a company that produces a higher end
Speaker 1: aluminum window. I don't want you to go an inexpensive
Speaker 1: aluminum window. You know, when we go window, we use
Speaker 1: Western windows or fleetwoods or things equivalent to that. And
Speaker 1: so when you when you do an aluminum window, uh,
Speaker 1: you want a window that is thermally broken. Okay, thermally broken?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: And what does that mean? It means this.
Speaker 1: It means aluminum is a really good conductor of energy, right.
Speaker 1: I mean you know you can run electricity through it
Speaker 1: and get shocked, right, So it conducts energy really well. Therefore,
Speaker 1: a dark window on the outside of a house that's
Speaker 1: metal can easily transmit heat from the outside to the inside. Right,
Speaker 1: So you touch the frame on the inside of the
Speaker 1: house and you're like, ooh, it's warm on a hot day.
Speaker 1: That is an unbroken a thermally unbroken window, meaning that
Speaker 1: there's one frame that continuously goes from the outside to
Speaker 1: the inside. But a high quality aluminum window is what
Speaker 1: we call thermally broken, which means the outer frame does
Speaker 1: not bridge across. There's a break, there's a gap, there's
Speaker 1: no bridge across to the inner frame. And therefore, as
Speaker 1: the outer frame heats up in the sunlight of a
Speaker 1: warm summer day, it does not transmit that heat and
Speaker 1: vice versa cold the same way it doesn't transmit that
Speaker 1: energy to the inside of the house. So a thermally
Speaker 1: broken aluminum window is a really high quality window. It
Speaker 1: will last a lifetime. If you decide on your color
Speaker 1: ahead of time, you can usually get the factory to
Speaker 1: powder coat the window like an automobile before you even
Speaker 1: order them. Even though an aluminum window can be painted
Speaker 1: on site, you know, we normally customize that color and
Speaker 1: make sure it comes the color that we want and
Speaker 1: talk about a low maintenance window for the life of
Speaker 1: the home. So if it works for you, play around
Speaker 1: with the style bud, and then you know, if you're
Speaker 1: leaning that way, go for it. You're in a unique
Speaker 1: position to be able to buy high quality windows at
Speaker 1: a low cost.
Speaker 2: I would do it in a heartbeat.
Speaker 5: You've motivated me to. I think you've made my decision,
Speaker 5: and I think, I like, I didn't know about the
Speaker 5: thermally thermally broken, and I'm going to ask that. I'm
Speaker 5: going to tell you that's all right. There you go.
Speaker 5: Thanks for that advice.
Speaker 2: You're welcome, Adam. Thanks for the call, Bud. I love it.
Speaker 1: I love it, always bringing up subjects that everybody else
Speaker 1: can glean from. All Right, we're at the.
Speaker 2: Top of the hour.
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