Inspection is Done

Hello. Thanks. The acronym stands for Ozark Area Community Action Corporation.

@YuleimaVzla They help low income people with different types of work on their homes. They added insulation to the walls and ceiling in our house, put new storm windows over all the windows outside, rebuilt part of the kitchen floor and put some new lighting fixtures in the house. They did all that work for free. The inspector today was checking all the work done over the last month on our house to make sure it was all good and we didn't have any complaints. The work should lower our heating bill during the winter and lower the cooling bill during the summer.

@DaddyEvil And specifically what is it that they do inspection What are they about?

I hope so, too. Ozark Area Community Action Corporation. It's a non-profit company that does weatherization for low-income families. They also fund jobs for low income school students. (I worked for OACAC from 13 years old until I graduated from high school. I cleaned the school for 2 hours every day after school let out for the day and then worked 40 hours a week for them cleaning, painting and doing other work for the school system during the summer break.)

@arunima25 You're very welcome. Mom got me hired so I could help pay for things for myself and my younger brother. I agree, the work is well worth doing for its own sake. That I got paid for doing it was very nice, too.

@DaddyEvil Oh! I see. Thank you for explaining. It's good to know that you worked for organization as a young boy. Those are some noble work that they do.

Thanks. I'm happy with the work they did. I mentioned something the construction crew did for us but weren't supposed to do and the inspector said not to mention that to anyone else. He said they could all get in trouble for it.

@DaddyEvil They must be good guys!

@AmbiePam They really are. We liked them!

True... I do wish they'd get it all done instead of doing some of it, waiting a few weeks and coming back and doing a little more of it, though.

@DaddyEvil — ah, okay, so it is an issue and not a cosmetic problem. I misunderstood, sorry. Glad you’re having it fixed!

@FourWalls Yeah, I WISH it was just a cosmetic problem. I'd ignore it and be happy. No problem at all.

We can't close those two windows. Hanging all my weight on the one in my bedroom won't force it to close.

Thank you. I hope it's soon, too. I'd like all this work to be over and done with.

@DaddyEvil - I know you were not happy about those windows.

@LadyDuck You're right, I'm still not happy. They should have been done right the first time.

Thanks. Me, too!

Thanks. I hope it will happen soon.

@rakski No, not yet. The new windows can take a while to build. We did get another inspection for Section 8. (That's the government inspection that is paying most of our rent now. The house passed with no problem but the inspector did tell us that the landlady would need to paint around the windows by next year or the house wouldn't pass inspection again.)

Thanks. I believe it was the frame part that took the longest to build.

@DaddyEvil possibly. Is it done by now?

Thank you. Our winter and summer bills should all be lower now.

Thanks. And yes, those two windows. The factory should still have the measurements from the first windows they made for this house. I hope they don't make them the wrong size this time.

Thank you. OACAC is a not-for-profit company that does different kinds of work for low-income people. They're paid by the government to help poor people live better.

@Shivram59 You're welcome.

@DaddyEvil Thank you. I'm glad your problem is solved.

In the US, we have regular windows like you have in other countries but then we also have another set of windows that aren't made of glass. Their frames are made of aluminum with plexiglass windows. Those are really tough and don't break very easily. They go on the outside of the house over the regular windows. We had a really bad hail storm back in January of this year. One of the hail actually broke a plexiglass window in my bedroom but the plexiglass stopped the hail stone from going through my glass window so the cold and wind still couldn't get into the house.

@DaddyEvil ........It does get old.

I really hope so. I'm tired of the construction.

What isn't big?

@DaddyEvil At least you will get new ones.

@jstory07 True.

Yup! I don't understand how the company made those two windows the wrong size.

@DaddyEvil i hope before winter weather comes.

@Tampa_girl7 Thanks, me, too.

Thank you. I don't know how long it will take them to make new ones.

Thank you. I think the frames for the storm windows is what takes so long. The replacement windows shouldn't take very long at all.

@Marilynda1225 I agree.... I asked if there was a chance that the two windows could be in the wrong frames but they're the exact same size.

@DaddyEvil it's crazy how all the other windows fit and those two didn't

Thanks. I hope so, too.

@DaddyEvil You're very welcome.