I've noticed the same thing in my own place. My house is older, built around 1920, and when we moved in the windows were these heavy traditional style...

Haha, your story about the open bathroom window cracked me up... reminds me of when we upgraded to triple panes thinking it'd silence the garbage truc...

We ran into something similar when we redid our siding a couple years back. Thought we'd budgeted perfectly, then boom—termites had been snacking behi...