Our first Pool Day!
Ok, so it isn't a real pool, just a largish kiddie pool, but it is enough to cool our family down, plus a neighborhood kid too! Today was the day Dad decided to put it up (mainly because the kids kept begging him to do it!) and now they are having a good ol time cooling off. Hmmm, something to do later for me! The house stays pretty cool until about 3pm, then the heat from outside comes inside and within an hour when the sun is actually starting to go down and the outside is actually cooler than the inside! That is of course when all the windows that can open get opened. Our house was painted very cheaply by the previous owner and all the windows were painted shut. Carl actually managed to put screens on some and get them open, but there are still quite a few that don't. Maybe a summer project? Anyway, the pool is a nice way to just cool off. Swimming doesn't exactly work, however.
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We use window fans that draw the night air in when it gets hot in the house. With all the trees around us, it usually cools down pretty quickly when the sun goes down.
We're having a pretty cool summer so far though. I don't think we've hit the 90's more than once yet.
Don't worry - that will change!
We have that same kind of pool. Lee wants to do an above-ground soft-sided pool (don't have to pay taxes or get permits), and those folks that we know who have them like them pretty well. You can actually swim in those :)
First make sure its actually painted shut and not just nailed shut.
Just cut away the paint at the edge of the sash. A pizza cutter does a good job. Be careful cuz you dont want the glass breaking (wear eye protection kids)
Run the knife all the way around the sash. If that doesn't free it up, force a putty knife as far in as it will go.
If it's still stuck, tap a block of wood against the frame at several points. Or use a rubber mallet. Don't hit the sash.
The last option is to get a small pry bar and work it up on side then the next.
Thanks Lee, I will definitely have Carl read this part! I think it will take a miracle for him to start that project but, who knows?
Maybe you can ask him when we get up there, hehe. He'll be all, "nah, haven't started it yet".
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