Quieter Home inspectors are stopping by today between 0930
and 1230. I’ll be gone, you know this,
but the boss will be here. I think I
have written all about this before, but I will happily tell you again…..The
Quieter Home program means we get triple paned windows and doors, heat, and
air. Yes!
Yes, too, prop engined aircraft vibrated everything and were
very noisy, but the Stage 1 jets blew all in the flight path out of the
water. I’ve lived under the flight path
downtown on First Avenue when all one could do was pause, or even cover your
ears, as the aircraft landed or took off over you. On this end, those early jets froze you in
place. It became a joke if I were
talking with Lenora. I’d have to stop
talking as the plane went over me, and then she would have to stop talking
until the plane was well out to sea.
The Port District taxed flyers, and turned that tax into
well insulated windows, doors, then heat and air so we here could seal
ourselves away from the noise. In trade,
if an aircraft were to land on our heads, we could not sue.
I’m living with G who has wonderful luck. No aircraft would dare land on his head, so
we signed up for these new and magic luxuries like heat. I know they assume we will now live in
cocooned isolation never opening doors or windows. But, since this program was invented, airplanes
have improved. Stage two planes morphed
into stage three, so now even the biggest craft no longer sound like the
morning jet to Moscow.
They will be here today to measure, to tell us what
furniture must be moved, what rooms they will be working in first, and to show
us what ceilings will be lowered to hold the units. We won’t tell them when they are here today
that we will continue to open our doors and windows year round to that
wonderful world outside our condo.
I will find out all the horrific details when I get home
from work.
- Keeping those on the east coast in my thoughts.
I envy you. Triple pane windows are on my wish list, but it will never happen. I guess I can't have everything.
ReplyDeleteWe have double-paned which we paid big bucks for. We never seem lucky enough to be on the free end of a deal. I have fighter jets and cargo planes flying over my head, but they are rare and not very noisy. So if they fall you cannot sue...would you really want to?
ReplyDeleteIt's going to be great! And you are right, nothing would DARE fall on Geezer's head!
ReplyDeleteI should work on instructions for the kids for when we're gone too. I'm so glad G is feeling a little better. My mother says until you've had shingles you don't understand what that pain is like.
ReplyDeleteI'm so happy for both of you that you will get some nice improvements and still be able to enjoy the open windows when you wish.
ReplyDeleteGood news on the plans of what will go to whom....may I suggest that you also make a copy and have it notarized to keep in a lockbox of some sort?