Hick House Window Dilemma 04-24-19

While Hick was working solo at Hick House, he got carried away with window replacements. The master bedroom project has not yet begun, but Hick set about putting in a window. There's one that looks out on the front porch, but has been boarded up since we bought the $5000 house.

Here it is behind HOS (Hick's Oldest Son) in the original picture, with a KEEP OUT sign on it.

Hick took a new picture from the front porch, where a piece of plywood is leaning against the non-window area. At least most of the siding is gone now, although Hick and HOS continue to be slovenly worksite operators.

You can also see where that window belongs in the interior photo of the future master bedroom:

Hick thought he had a window to go there. In fact, he had two. But they were both too big! He needs a five-foot window here, and his were larger. So he came up with another plan. You might want to make sure you're sitting down.

Hick wants to CUT UP ONE OF THE WINDOW DOORS!

These doors! Hick mentioned the plan to me on the phone while I was in town. I kind of treated it like all of Hick's comments about Hick House, and "Uh-huh'-ed and put it in the back of my mind. By the time I got home, that thought was screaming to get out. I called Hick, frantic that he might have already done the deed. Hoping that I had misunderstood his motive.

"Hey! You didn't mean one of those pair of window doors you were going to use in the living room, did you?"

"Yeah. It won't open, but I'll cut one down and have a nice window there on the front of the house."

"NOOOO! You can't do that! Don't ruin those doors! You have a pair!"

"I don't have anything else to use them for."

"You MIGHT! If you're even thinking about flipping another house. DON'T cut up the door! Bring them home. You have plenty of room to keep them. Surely you can find another window somewhere."

"I looked. They were $250 or more."

"Even at the used house stuff Goodwill kind of store? What's the name of that place?"

"Uh... um... the Rehab Store. No, that's not it. It's something like that. I can look there."

"You can get on Buy/Sell/Trade, or call Tradio. Say you're looking for a window, and can't pay more than $50. I'm sure you'll find one. People call in there all the time, selling stuff for only $10. I'm sure someone has a window for $50. You can even say it doesn't matter if it opens."

"No. It has to open."

"You just said that if you made it out of the door, it wouldn't open."

"Yeah. But if it's a window, it will have to open!"

"I don't understand you, but I'm sure you can do better than ruin a nice door to make a non-opening window."

"There's not much money left to buy stuff. I can try looking."

"Those free doors are worth more than using one as a window. DON'T cut the door!"

I really hope Hick paid more attention to what I said than I did to what he said!
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Later the next night...

"It's Habitat for Humanity!"

"What? That's people who build houses for free."

"It's a re-store. Habitat for Humanity."

"The Habitat for Humanity Re-Store?"

"Yeah. That's it."
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