With new windows, siding, and roof shingles, This Old House‘s Timeless Home takes cover from the weather.
Published in This Old House magazine
At the Timeless Home job site in Atlanta, the air is clacking and buzzing with the sounds of staple guns and electric drills as general contractor Jason Yowell eagerly unwraps the latest delivery: a 500-pound cardboard package wrapped in plastic, containing an 11-by-7-foot picture window that will soon grace the living room and afford a panoramic view of the surrounding woods. This recent arrival is just one of the 49 aluminum-clad, double-paned windows scattered about the inside of the house, and Yowell is anxious to get them in. “With all the rain we’ve had lately, the sooner I can plug all the holes around here, the better,” he says…