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Windows also get a lot of action. And now more than ever, people care about how well the windows keep out the cold. In most old houses, alas, the windows don’t work well at all.
In the old days you kept a window up with a stick or some other prop. This serviceable but primitive method gave way in time to the use of weighted sash cords, which generally worked pretty well (aside from needing to be replaced occasionally). But the cord-and-pulley system requires side pockets or slots in the window frame, and these let the cold air in. If you buy a house with sash cords, you’re buying one part of an energy hog. You can find replacement devices for the sash cords, but our experience is that such gadgets cannot hold up the heavy sashes found in many old houses. Probably a better approach from an energy-conservation standpoint is to cover them with aluminum storm and screen windows. This is expensive, and sometimes the aluminum storms look out of place on an older home, but on balance this is usually the best approach to the problem of leaky windows.
Steel casement windows. These are not terribly common, but when they do show up, they’re murder. They conduct the cold, condense moisture, rarely close tightly, and are difficult to get replacement parts for. Finding them in a house shouldn’t make you turn it down, but they’re not an asset, and they’ll give you trouble until you finally replace them.