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Mexicorn
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Double payned (Pain in the butt) windows in Baja
Looked high and low for a standard 60"x 80" sliding glass window with screen double sencillo( double payne) de vinyl. Buena suerte everyone tells me.
The cheapest I found was off the free road past Rosarito $400.00 and it looked used. Oh dont get me wrong there is a million places that well make
them custom make and deliver singled payned aluminum for about $250.00 US but I want double payned windows. I spent half the day combing Los Globos
and Avenida Reforma in Ensenada por Nada.
Dont even think about the homo depot those prices are nuts because I think everything comes from the US and they tack on an aditional 28% to
everything. Anyone got any Ideas?
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Mix up Mexicorn
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i gotta friend in La Mesa (US side) who has, i think, a 6 footer. brand new, left over from a previous job. if interested U2U me.
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Go onto Craigs List, San Diego.
I found two perfect used double paned windows, low e glass, vinyl windows for $100.
They were in perfect condition, presently installed in a room that faces the sun and they really block the heat from the sun
Good Luck!
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price.....
a 5/0x6/8 door with low-e / vinyl, 400.00 is not a bad price. What kind of price you looking for? free
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PS.
wait tell you break a panel. the replacement will cost $385.00
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Mexicorn
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| Quote: | Originally posted by msawin
price.....
a 5/0x6/8 door with low-e / vinyl, 400.00 is not a bad price. What kind of price you looking for? free |
Hey I can pick up a new one at the homo depot in IB for $475.00 Tax included. So dont hate because I'm trying to save a couple of dollars. What are
you doing since "Renes bar " shut down recently? Not everyone is wealthy like you!
Were you not the guy I met at "Plan-B?"
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Mexicorn
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| Quote: | Originally posted by losfrailes
Go onto Craigs List, San Diego.
I found two perfect used double paned windows, low e glass, vinyl windows for $100.
They were in perfect condition, presently installed in a room that faces the sun and they really block the heat from the sun
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Thanks Frailes will do.
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it'll only be 28% if you use a broker
i just imported some glass a week ago
15% import tax
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We have six 8 footers at our place. Paid around $ 280.00 each at Home base about 1990.
Drawback: we live on a golfcourse and had an outside pane broken in the stationary door. Nowhere anybody to be found to fix it. Had another outside
pane broken by a visitor. Same story. And hauling them is a major "Pane " Those
suckers are heavy.
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Just to follow up here.
This is quite an assortment on Craigs List, San Diego. Oughta bee something there you can use.
http://sandiego.craigslist.org/search/sss?query=vinyl++windo...
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Mexicorn
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vandenberg
We have six 8 footers at our place. Paid around $ 280.00 each at Home base about 1990.
Drawback: we live on a golfcourse and had an outside pane broken in the stationary door. Nowhere anybody to be found to fix it. Had another outside
pane broken by a visitor. Same story. And hauling them is a major "Pane " Those
suckers are heavy. |
You've brougt up a real good point. I think I'll just purchase the mexican made to order one for $250. But wont it make a difference in cold
weather?
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Why a slider? There are plenty of dual payne frnch doors available in the size you want.
Bob Durrell
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good point. i talked my friend outta putting in the slider, so now i gotta put in french doors for him. they really are more functional and look
better also...
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French doors VS sliding doors.....
I have cheap wood inswing french doors in my Norte Calif. Casa master bedroom...And they are the best for the local.. [dual pane, also].
Dual swing doors, "french" in swing or out swing do just that.. They swing into something. Can and are a pain in the ass for some spots. Out swing
leaves one with out screen doors. If you have the room for the un-used swing space area, French are sweet.. But costly $$.
Sliders are cheap and do not create a space issue.
martin=o
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French Doors are great until the weather warms up. Then, you gotta put deoderant on the hinges.   
Oh well..I thought that was really funny.
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deoderant? That is what I have been missing..
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Mexicorn
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| Quote: | Originally posted by msawin
French doors VS sliding doors.....
I have cheap wood inswing french doors in my Norte Calif. Casa master bedroom...And they are the best for the local.. [dual pane, also].
Dual swing doors, "french" in swing or out swing do just that.. They swing into something. Can and are a pain in the burro for some spots. Out swing
leaves one with out screen doors. If you have the room for the un-used swing space area, French are sweet.. But costly $$.
Sliders are cheap and do not create a space issue.
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Agreed French doors look better and function better and... are less expensive, yes less expensive made of vinyl.
The rub is buying those invisable screens at $150.00 a pop. Once you've installed the screens sure enough someone who is old feeble, blind or just
plain drunk walks right through one then it's back to the homo depot for another one.
Yes the homo depot where men bond with tools!
[Edited on 10-5-2009 by Mexicorn]
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The vinyl french doors we sell, go for around $1800.00 . The "phantom" retracting screen doors that we do not sell but refer to, go for around
$325.00. dollars... ????
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any screen guy in the usa can easily make screens
to fit out-swing french doors
we had them made
under $100 each
the problem with out-swing french doors is WIND!!!
you can't open the doors in the wind
or they can get ripped off the "deodorized" hinges
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