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We live in coastal California. This may sound ridiculous to folks back in snow country, but we’re now looking at cost effectiveness of window insulation choices (it regularly hits the high 20’s here in the winter, which I know from experience is balmy by Minnesota standards, but is cold if the house is in the low 50’s). We got seriously frightened by talking prices of replacement windows with a local lumberyard ($450-600/window, not counting labor, which we wouldn’t since we’d install — we have big Victorian windows), and are now considering whether classic storm windows make sense. Anyone know of a source of cost-benefit information on storm window versus double pane window options?
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We live in coastal California. This may sound ridiculous to folks back in snow country, but we're now looking at cost effectiveness of window insulation choices (it regularly hits the high 20's here in the winter, which I know from experience is balmy by Minnesota standards, but is cold if the house is in the low 50's). We got seriously frightened by talking prices of replacement windows with a local lumberyard ($450-600/window, not counting labor, which we wouldn't since we'd install -- we have big Victorian windows), and are now considering whether classic storm windows make sense. Anyone know of a source of cost-benefit information on storm window versus double pane window options?