[buckman]

Originally Posted by nightfighter

Pete, Given the difficulty in getting homeowners to spend on essential repairs, nevermind upgrades, I have to disagree with this piece of your statement. If the window isn't an obvious source of leak/draft, who would spend their money on replacing it? I've replaced a ton of old, leaking, rattling, non-operative windows. While I agree it is just a piece of the whole picture, a window replacement will in many cases reduce the most obvious leak in the middle of the stack. Indeed, they often are the source of the most direct pressure into the living area. Once they are correctly replaced, you then have the high/low areas which are the most vulnerable, as you have stated. (Your points are well taken in a home with no leaking windows.) And if you replace a window with a product such as an Andersen 400 series, you are also adding to both interior and exterior aethstetics, which does affect the buyer's satisfaction. Not all of us are profiting by installing a product that will not improve the client's home......

Well put.

Stay away the installers on TV, they are three times the price of your local contractor