Here is the issue.
Do you see it ? If you don't look at the window spacing.
What I want to do is remove the 5 windows and replace them with three 48" sliding windows, or at minium correct for the spacing and put real windows in (currently they are just storm windows).
I have had a couple people out to look at the job. I got cornered at the blue big box store when pricing windows, so they where one, even though I told them this is not a R and R window job and requires framing, they came out, told me I would need custom windows at 1000 a piece, the 200 dollar pellas in the store are no good, and they would send some one else out for the framing. I see getting caught in the middle if something does not go right, he estimated the total to be around 10K, with a door and R and R the 2 end windows. Ouch. The other contractor seemed to be a good guy, in at around 6K, he was going to write something up and drop it buy. Never heard back. The one other person interested in the job over the phone never got back either. If they cant follow though on getting back to me to do the job, whats going to happen once they have my money. Several others did not even bother to call back.
So over the last couple days I pulled the paneling off the inside to see whats there for framing. The guys that came out where concerned that there could be issues with the current way it was framed that if modified for the larger windows, the roof may not be supported correctly.
So here are some pics of the inside framing. This may be a do it myself job based on the way it has started. I would rather be working on my car, but finding reliable good people in my area does not seem like a winning situation. Am I looking at 10 K of reconstruction work here of are they blowing smoke ?
