Flip-Side of Prohibitively Expensive Windows
We know first-hand how expensive it is to replace the extra-long parlor floor windows having done it last year ourselves. (For those fortunate enough not to have had to do it, it’s a couple thousand bucks or more per window.) So it’s not surprising that many houses took short-cuts over the years, using standard length…
We know first-hand how expensive it is to replace the extra-long parlor floor windows having done it last year ourselves. (For those fortunate enough not to have had to do it, it’s a couple thousand bucks or more per window.) So it’s not surprising that many houses took short-cuts over the years, using standard length windows and just filling in the difference. The patch job at 211 Carlton Avenue is particularly crude though. GMAP
Much of the original Brownstone for this area was quarried in Portland Connecticut and floated up the Gowanus Canal. The giant quarry, which operated from the 1700s was flooded and closed by the 1938 hurricane. A portion of it was re-opened in 1995 by Mike Meehan, http://www.brownstonequarry.com, 860-342-2920. Mike cut new stones to our specifications for underneath the new Parlor Floor windows. The new stones were installed by Lascelle Edwards 917-640-0298. The windows (with inslated glass) were built out of clear cedar by Millwork Specialties, 718-768-7112. The work can be seen at 191 Dean Street (between Hoyt & Bond).
Give the guy a break, everyone here has been deriding his house, he responds with restraint, then you pick apart everything he says. He owns a beautiful brownstone in Fort Greene and is in the process of selling it for a decent chunk of change. Let the man live.
Mr. Burton, offers are not deals.
My apologies
Paul Burton – before getting personal, you should please note that names are placed BELOW a post – and that, accordingly, you should be taking swipes, if that’s your preferred form of communication, at the anonymous person who posted at 9.07 pm. Otherwise, we’d all be calling you Carolyn.
Some of the Brownstone was quarried on the banks of the Hudson. They stopped when presevationists objected to how ugly the river was beginning to look.
As for the stucco over wood frame houses, There is a great deal of ignorance out there about the product and many contractors who do this work are uneducated or just plain criminals. There is a nationwide class action suit against the product. If you wrap your house in plastic and then that layer fails, allowing water to enter, you will trap the moisture inside against the wood forever.
surprise landmarks did not pick up on this
In response to 6:04 pm (Crown Hieghts Proud), — With that name you should know a contradiction when you see it.
My earlier comments make perfect sense according to the Seller and at least two buyers who have offered over asking as of yesterday. For any opinion to MATTER with regard to price it takes a prospective buyer AND a SELLER to be in agreement.
Regarding “its a steal”:
The difference in absolute price is roughly $300,000 to $400,000 let us use the mid-point, $350,000. Your comment left out my esitmate of the cost to complete the renovation for someone with average know how of $150,000 — that leaves a $200,000 value. Since the modern world does use mortgages to finance large purchases of high ticket items that 20% reference in your comment is misleading in terms of understanding value. Where I come from $200,000 is a lot of money.
Regarding flexibility on price — perhaps here you have a point regarding the contradiction (if you want to be narrow in your thinking) –I have found that someone that provides a little flexibility in the beginning usually is the benefactor of others flexibility in the end.
You know where I live!
Thanks,
Paul Burton
Mr. Contradiction
“Brownstone” is Connecticut brownstone, a type of sandstone found there. You can see cliffs composed of the stuff in the New Haven area driving along I-95. There is no way it was quarried in Brooklyn since the material that composes Long Island was basically dumped by glaciers. Except for Astoria, bedrock isn’t close enough to the surface to quarry.
That is all.