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One of the big names in aluminum storefront and glass fabrication tripped last week: Arch Aluminum and Glass Co. filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Nov. 25, with the Southern District of Florida U.S. Bankruptcy Court. Court documents list the fabricator’s assets at $0-$100,000, with $100MM-$500MM in liabilities, according to TrollerBk.com. The filing does not include Arch’s Canadian holdings or Trulite.

Trouble had been brewing at the company for awhile. Arch had 28 facilities in 17 states and 2,400 employees, but in October announced it was “selectively closing or temporarily shuttering” facilities in: Kansas City; Rogers, Minn.; Nashville; and Sarasota, Fla.

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For the past two weeks, a thin layer of plywood outside the Rite Aid at 5th and Broadway has covered a controversy over how to rebuild Broadway’s fragile sidewalks.

Property owner Mideb Nominees wants to replace 200 feet of crumbling concrete with a new, reinforced span. The City, though, has put the work on hold, telling the developer that removed glass block panels were “character-defining features” of the historic property and must be replaced. Mideb says that its plans were already approved and that it doesn’t believe the glass blocks are protected.

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The observation that old windows are often thicker at the bottom than at the top is often offered as supporting evidence for the view that glass flows over a matter of centuries. It is then assumed that the glass was once uniform, but has flowed to its new shape, which is a property of liquid. In actuality, the reason for this is that when panes of glass were commonly made by glassblowers, the technique used was to spin molten glass so as to create a round, mostly flat and even plate (the crown glass process, described above). This plate was then cut to fit a window. The pieces were not, however, absolutely flat; the edges of the disk became thicker as the glass spun. When actually installed in a window frame, the glass would be placed thicker side down both for the sake of stability and to prevent water accumulating in the lead cames at the bottom of the window. Occasionally such glass has been found thinner side down or thicker on either side of the window’s edge, as would be caused by carelessness at the time of installation.

Mass production of glass window panes in the early twentieth century caused a similar effect. In glass factories, molten glass was poured onto a large cooling table and allowed to spread. The resulting glass is thicker at the location of the pour, located at the center of the large sheet. These sheets were cut into smaller window panes with nonuniform thickness. Modern glass intended for windows is produced as float glass and is very uniform in thickness.

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These windows were installed in most houses from approximately 1850 to 1945. After the Second World War, the window was reinvented. It was a time of “progress is our most important product”. Progress often meant throwing out everything old and starting over. What happened with windows is that the simple old system of counterweighting with cast iron weights was replaced with spring suspension systems. These systems have been invented and reinvented with various combinations of plastic parts that transfer the springs to the sashes. Every replacement window uses some variation of this basic combination.

A replacement window is any window assembly that was installed to replace a rope and pulley window. They can consist of just two new duplicate sashes and a set of spring-loaded jamb liners or a complete assembly including casing, and exterior trim cladding. All of them depend on suspension systems consisting of various combinations of springs, strings and plastic things. (See illustrations)

Every day, hundreds of them are installed, and hundreds of old wooden single pane sashes are sent to the landfill. This has been going on since 1945, with most of it happening in the last 20 years.

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A broken windowpane not only allows the weather into your home, it is also a security hazard. Luckily, broken glass is one of the easiest problems to fix. You can buy replacement glass, cut to measure, at lumberyards and hardware stores. Here’s how to replace a broken pane in a single pane (one thickness of glass) window:

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With the new energy tax credit, there’s more incentive than ever to choose windows and doors with energy-saving features. But if you want to be eligible for the tax credit, you have to choose wisely. All Andersen® windows and patio doors with the EcoExcel™ package will qualify for the energy tax credit. Guaranteed.* The EcoExcel™ package gives you the top Andersen energy-saving features, as well as one of the industry’s widest selections of qualifying windows and doors. And with the EcoExcel™ package, there is no need for expensive upgrades

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