I hear you on the caulking—my first try looked like someone squeezed toothpaste around the window. When I swapped out my old vinyls for fiberglass, th...

That’s interesting about the condensation—our old vinyls would fog up every winter, but I always blamed it on the frame. Maybe it was just our humidif...

Not sure I totally buy that humidity management is the only thing, though. In my place, even with a dehumidifier running most days, the single-pane w...

I totally get the comfort angle. We put low-e film on our south-facing windows last summer, and while the electric bill didn’t drop by a ton, the livi...

I hear you—paint’s like a band-aid over a broken bone sometimes. We had a bay window that looked fine from the outside, but when I went to swap out th...

Funny, I had almost the exact opposite experience with my 1950s ranch. We did the windows first—figured those leaky old wood frames were the main culp...

I totally get where you’re coming from. Last summer, we lost power for two days during a heatwave, and being able to open every window was a lifesaver...

Ha, glad I'm not the only one puzzled by those sneaky outlet drafts. When we redid our windows a couple years back, I thought we'd solved all our chil...

Good call on checking the seals—I overlooked mine for years until one particularly chilly evening when I felt a draft while watching TV. Turns out, th...