CHARLIE: Mark in Meyerland has our next question. He says, “We are going to be replacing all the windows in our house, and I understand that composite windows are jiffy nice, but, and they’re probably the best, what about vinyl windows though Tom? Is there still a good reason to do vinyl windows?”
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TOM: Vinyl windows are fine. Composite, the word composite, there’s several companies out there that use the word composite. Some are wood chips with glue, some are actual more fibrous products, not fibrous but more plastic type products. Jim Fiumi has a fantastic compozite window, go look at his, and they are better windows.
Do you need one? Maybe, maybe not.
Something happened to me yesterday, I had an epiphany when I was listening to a radio show. You see these commercials on TV, and they show these vinyl windows all bubbled up from the sun and everything. I’ve never seen one happen.
CHARLIE: Never.
TOM: This talk show host said the same thing. He said “I’ve never seen that happen.”
When I was driving I said “I bet you they use the heat gun to simulate a vinyl.”
They heated it up so bad-
CHARLIE: They made it up.
TOM: … ’cause I thought this is television.
CHARLIE: This is …
The point is don’t use vinyl windows on the surface of the sun.
TOM: That’s what I mean. This is television. I finally realized how they got those shots.
CHARLIE: Right.
TOM: They actually used either torches, or a heat guns to do that.
Vinyl windows are fine. They have their limitations. They’re either white or white, and they’re big framed, and they don’t always match the architecture.
You get in the compozite windows, you can get all different kinds of colors and stuff, which really look good, and the compozite windows, at least with Jim Fiumi are more efficient. Yeah, they’re more efficient ’cause the frame’s made out of a different material.
CHARLIE: When you say, now hang on.
When you say the frame is bigger, you mean thicker? You don’t get as much glass on a vinyl window.
TOM: I’m sorry, yes. It becomes a big, thick, kind of bulky thing.
CHARLIE: Yeah.
TOM: We’re trying to go back to the old clean look.
CHARLIE: Sure.
TOM: It’s all about you. If I did it again, I would use Jim Fiumi compozite windows. When I did it in 1997, I have vinyl windows, but I don’t see anything all bubbling up and from the sun and everything. That’s crazy.
CHARLIE: Right.