How to Install a Replacement Window – This Old House


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  1. 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

  2. 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!

  3. 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.

  4. 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?