As I write this there is a receipt for $1802.00 for 9 brand new windows sitting next to me. Here is how we got to this point.

With minimal luck scrounging through local bone yard piles a glimmer of hope came when a friend of ours connected us with a family friend of hers that worked at a window distributor a few hours away. He sent us a list of their current boneyard windows that were just sitting waiting for someone like us to come along and he recommended the left over Anderson 100 series as a good product. I noticed that 3-5 windows on the list looked like they could work for our project but we decided to hold off until we were a little further along on the project before committing to windows.

Fast forward to late January when we are ready to seriously consider windows and those black…