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October 30, 2007
Video: Replacing a Window
Join us today as handyman Tony Davis provides his unique take on how to remove and replace an old window. Meanwhile, to see all the videos we've posted recently, just select "Video" from the "Topics" dropdown menu near the top of the page. Ideas for future Handyman segments?
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Totally want Tony to have his own show!!! Brooklyn rules, Norm Abrams drools!
Posted by: Brenda from Flatbush at October 30, 2007 11:13 AM
I just want to make a note that Tony has helped me with my house for 8 years. Sometimes he's rushed things and screwed them up- but for the most part he's saved my butt repeatedly. When I started out I didn't know a screw from a nail and he's taught me a hell of a lot.
Posted by: filmmer at October 30, 2007 11:31 AM
"simple, plain, easy, whadda think about that?"
i think it looks kinda crummy. i love the simple and fast, but, for my house, i'd want it a bit slower, crisper, more cleanly finished.
Posted by: guest at October 30, 2007 11:46 AM
yikes.
i cringed when he was hammering away at that window without eye-protection.
Posted by: guest at October 30, 2007 12:06 PM
Really? Kinda fun, interesting character for YouTube maybe, but is this the kind of renovation quality you want Brownstoner to stand for? Crappy installation of a crappy vinyl window? Maybe next you could show a video of how to put a fedders slot in a brownstone :-)
Posted by: guest at October 30, 2007 12:31 PM
I think many of us with more dreams than money, more anxiety than intelligence, and more patience than sense, have used workmen like Tony. Tony actually did a lot of work on my place. He made things happen when others refused to respond to my project. That said, we should have parted ways a few months earlier than we did. There is a renovation psychosis which prevents a rational analysis of a project. Tony showed up and so I put up with a lot of sloppiness and wasted time. I am not sure that by posting Tony at work (with beer in hand no less), Brownstoner is endorsing him. Rather it is a true to life (and humorous) reminder of what renovation really is for most of us. A broken window which really needs to be fixed, a tenant's toilet which has been leeking for a week until the ceiling falls down, an, er nonpermitted, bathroom reno which you've promised your partner to get done before Xmas. Tony, and his comrades, have stepped into the breach in those situations. And hey, if cold and hot are reversed, or he made windowsills different heights - whaddidyathinkwuzgonnahappen?
Posted by: Putnamdenizen at October 30, 2007 12:58 PM
Perfect installation for a laundry room. How would he replace an 80-year old wood window in a living room?
Posted by: guest at October 30, 2007 12:58 PM
Is This a Halloween joke, because its really scary! I'm flat-lining undoing work like this in my house.
Boo!
Posted by: guest at October 30, 2007 1:35 PM
how about fixing a leaky radiator?
Posted by: guest at October 30, 2007 3:09 PM
fugedaboudit
Posted by: guest at October 30, 2007 3:22 PM
I'd like to see any and all of these:
1) Insulating an unfinished attic: challenge: old wide planks with hand made nails. Lift up planks to blowing insulation between floor joists? Vs. insulating the unfinished ceiling.
2) Converting a rear parlor floor window into a door for access to the yard.
3) Weather stripping the front door and inner vestibule doors
5) What to do when some bricks of an internal wall (like in the basement) start crumbling? How to repair this?
Posted by: guest at October 30, 2007 5:59 PM
I liked the blues guitar sting at the beginning and end.
Posted by: Argyle Road at October 30, 2007 10:25 PM
That is horrifying. I'd say he was a butcher but my butcher has more sense than he does. Seriously. I wouldn't let him within 100 feet of my house. He's the perfect example of what not to hire in any circumstance.
Posted by: tag482 at October 31, 2007 7:01 AM
nice safety glasses and the swearing really brings the class level up.
Posted by: guest at October 31, 2007 10:27 AM
Sometimes you need dirty deeds done dirt cheap, and those are the times we've been very happy indeed to find a Tony. "Happy" being a relative thing. Maybe next installment we could feature a high-end landmarks-experienced finish carpenter who sands parquet with his Persian cat's tongue and uses fiberglass insulation knitted by Belgian nuns, just to even things out...but some of us won't find it nearly as instructive, or as instantly recognizable and therefore soul-satisfying!
Posted by: Brenda from Flatbush at October 31, 2007 1:44 PM
Tony Dangerous is good guy and a hard worker. If your looking for Norm from This Old House is guess thats not who he is. But I think he is more entertaining than This Old House. I agree he is not up to OSHA standards and if he was drinking on the job that would be problematic. Keep in mind not everyone can afford the contractors from This Old House. In an ideal world every job would be done by a fully osha compliant contractor, who is fully insured, with the ability of an experienced craftsman by an Owner who was of sufficient means as to not be concerned as to the pricing. In the real world sometimes there is a job that needs to be done , not a big job, for people that for whatever reason are unable to hire the This Old House team and they hire Tony Davis who gets the "job done".
There are all grades of contractors and all types of pricing. I know some people that are artists and craftsman in the trades and others that are not. Generally the price for "top shelf" is lot different then
"down and dirty" (get the job done). I suspect that the specs on this job were get the job done for a "down and dirty" price where price was a major consideration. As I said Tony is good person, a character, funny, intelligent, been around the neighborhood for a long time , served his country as soldier in the Vietnam War and i think the video is entertaining tony buena suerte
Posted by: guest at October 31, 2007 4:48 PM
This is berserk. Does Tony have insurance? Ouch!
Posted by: guest at November 19, 2007 10:37 PM
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