Charlie:
Brad, he says he’s heard you mention composite windows. You say that they’re the best choice for replacement windows.
Tom:
Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Charlie:
One manufacturer he’s come across describes their composite windows as a combination of reclaimed wood and PVC polymer.
Tom:
Yes.
Charlie:
Could you comment on this?
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Tom:
This is a great question. That I’ve been wanting to address, but nobody’s asked it. I would like to address it as much as possible.
Charlie:
Brad will send you a free copy.
Tom:
We have scorched earth, by …
Charlie:
By Tom …
Tom:
By Michael Savage.
Charlie:
The new book I’m writing called The Hard Way to do Everything.
Tom:
Yes. Composite Window is nothing more than taking different materials and a lot of glue and extruding something. At Gulf Coast Windows, they have a window called the compozit window, but it’s spelled with a Z-I-T like in Animal House at the end where the …
Charlie:
Got it.
Tom:
Okay.
Charlie:
Something that might take you back to your teenage years.
Tom:
That’s actually a plastic and it is a different thing. This particular window that he’s talking about was invented by a company that makes wood windows that were vinyl clad and they saw all this sawdust and all these vinyl chips on the floor and one of the managers said, why don’t we try to extrude it into a window.
Charlie:
Okay.
Tom:
That’s exactly how that window is produced.
Charlie:
I’m glad you don’t work on a dairy farm. Why don’t we extrude her.
Tom:
So the bottom line is you get a whole bunch of glue and some sawdust and vinyl powder that was swept off the floor of a manufacturing plant and that’s how they make those windows and they charge twice as much as the other window that is a vinyl wood clad window which is very popular up north. It doesn’t work well here in the Houston area.
Charlie:
Don’t go there. What it boils down to is …
Tom:
Watch out for the wood composite, because it can be confusing. It depends on what it is when it’s put together.