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Any household requires general home repair. Learn how to fix leaky roofs and sticky doors and use general home repair tips to knock items off your to-do list.
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Inside the house, things are now beginning to look enclosed:
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The next step in enclosure is windows and doors. The windows and doors arrive in one shipment and are unloaded from the truck into a stack:
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Plastic stripping is stapled to the inside of all window and door openings, like this:
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The windows used here are standard vinyl windows. They are placed in each rough opening and stapled in place on the outside.
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The front-most window is the feature window of this house:
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