| If you really want to know the secrets about how | | | | any idea about how they could install these windows |
| to install windows without any flanges on them, I | | | | properly, was me and the contractor I was working |
| would advise you to contact the window | | | | with. We explained to them that we needed written |
| manufacturer for instructions. That's the best advice | | | | instructions so that the warranty for the windows |
| I can give anyone who is thinking about installing | | | | wouldn't be voided. |
| windows that they're not familiar with. | | | | This got their attention, because they thought that |
| I was working on a whole house renovation one | | | | they were dealing with amateurs and if this was the |
| time, when the windows finally arrived and I noticed | | | | case and we would have installed the windows our |
| that they didn't have any window flanges on them. | | | | way, the warranty could have been voided. |
| The contractor that I was working with figured that | | | | Flange is related to the phasing effect produced by |
| we would just install them and not worry about it. | | | | a, well, phaser effects unit. It is produced when two |
| That didn't sit right with me, because we had been | | | | identical signals are mixed together, with one of the |
| having problems with building inspectors and the | | | | signals time-delayed by a small and gradually changing |
| installation of windows for quite some time now. | | | | amount. The amount is usually equal to or less than |
| I finally convinced the owner of the house and the | | | | 20 milliseconds. Peaks and notches are produced in |
| contractor to contact the company who they | | | | the combined frequency spectrum, related in a linear |
| purchased the windows from. This was a local lumber | | | | harmonic series. Part of the output signal is fed back |
| yard who sold quite a bit a windows from different | | | | in and resonates, intensifying the peaks and notches. |
| manufacturers. I thought they would give us a simple | | | | This effect was originally generated with 3 three |
| answer or provide us with a pamphlet on how to | | | | headed tape machines. Two of the tape machines |
| install these windows, but they didn't know | | | | would play the signal, obviously somewhat out of |
| themselves or have any information. | | | | synch, and the third tape machine would record the |
| The truth is, the lumber company didn't want to take | | | | output. The modern version of the effect is created |
| any responsibility for the window installation, so they | | | | using DSP (digital signal processing) technology. |
| contacted the window manufacturer and they sent | | | | There is only one way to install windows and it really |
| out a representative to solve our problem. The day | | | | doesn't matter if you have flanges on them or not, |
| finally arrived when five men came to visit the job | | | | that's to make sure that you install them per window |
| and explain to us, how to install the windows that | | | | manufacturer's instructions. If you choose to install |
| their window company had made. | | | | them a different way, you could find yourself having |
| This didn't do us any good, the only person who had | | | | problems, with any warranty in the future. |