A good meeting

I spent some time looking at windows online, and then met the general contractor at the house. We've been working on a contract for him to complete most of the jobs left in the house. The meeting went really well, and we've finalized a contract. He expects to start Monday 3/13. At first I was bummed that it couldn't be sooner, but it may be good thing because it will give me this week to do some shopping and stay ahead of him.

An interesting thing - on the east coast where I grew up, people changed their windows for the summer and winter. Storm windows are heavier and there is no screen. The storm windows go up in the fall and come out in the spring. Nobody has ever heard of them here - none of the contractors and not even the staff at the window store! It must be a very small scale thing - maybe only people in cold climate with houses built before a certain date know about this.