Window Installation Tips for a Deep Energy Retrofit

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Use 'Dudley boxes' for a hassle-free way to install new windows in walls that are being retrofitted with exterior rigid foam

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In May 2011 we began [a deep energy retrofit](http://6hillstreet.blogspot.com/) of our old, cold, drafty house Saugerties, New York. Because the house was poorly and cheaply built in the 1840s (apparently from scraps and salvage), we were leery of opening up the walls from the outside, lest we find that the clapboard siding and incomplete sheathingMaterial, usually plywood or oriented strand board (OSB), but sometimes wooden boards, installed on the exterior of wall studs, rafters, or roof trusses; siding or roofing installed on the sheathing—sometimes over strapping to create a rainscreen. were all that had kept the house from collapsing.

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