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Build Notes and Material Suppliers

Build Notes and Material Suppliers for Energy Star Bay Window Build and Installation

Bay Window Photos Click Here

• Existing Wall 2 x4 Framing with zero (0) Insulation or Vapor Barrier

Note: Owners Plan on Adding Insulation in the Future.  Insulation will not be needed in the Bay Window Area at that time.

Bay Window Ceiling, Floor, and Adjacent Wall- R13 Faced Batt Fiber Glass Insulation with 6mil poly VB

• 2x6 and 2x4 Framing Members @ 16" OC
• Header Attachments Combination: Liquid Nails, 3/8" x6" Lag Bolts @ 16"OC, 3" Deck Screws
• Additional Support (Floor & Ceiling) Added to Existing Building Frame. Total 4-2x6
• Bay Window Roof System and Floor System are Self Supporting
• Simpson Strong Tie Joist Hangers Utilized for the Bay Window Flooring System
• 2x4 Staggered Floor Joists utilized for Energy Efficiency and Added Strength
• Roof Hip and Roof to Existing Wall Flashed for Added Water-Proofing
• Existing Window Opening was utilized and un-changed 76"x59"
• Windows: Energy Performance Rated- Soft Light Vinyl Windows

U Factor= 0.46

Solar Heat Gain Coefficient= 0.58

Visible Transmittance= 0.60

Condensation Resistance= 43

• Roof: 30yr White Asph Shingles, #15 Roofing Felt
• All Exterior Wood Framing Members and Trim Boards: White Finish or Wrapped with White Aluminum.  To Match Existing Windows on House.
• All Exterior Joints and Connections Caulked and Sealed with a combination of Silicone Caulking and Spray Foam Insulation (Closed Cell, Window and Door Sealant by Dow)
• East Property Boundary Line Established by Edge of Existing Side Walk. Distance from East edge of House Foundation to Edge of Side Walk is 71"

Bay Window protrudes 15" from Building.

Leaving 56" Un-obstructed egress

Clear Un-obstructed Distance between Bay Window and East Porch Steps is 38 ½"  

Materials Supplied by

Windows: Berry Door and Window

Lumber and Misc Materials: Home Depot Southtown #3011

Roofing: Roofing Supply Group of St Louis

Flooring: Hampton Flooring
Spray Foam Insulation by: Dow Great Stuff- Door and Window 

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Join in MO Sen.C. McCaskills Plan to Stop Trade Cheets and Create American Jobs

Click here to sign on as a citizen co-sponsor of my job-creating legislation to crack down on trade cheats today.

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Claire McCaskill <info@clairemccaskill.com> wrote:

Scotty --

Thank you for signing on as a citizen co-sponsor of my plan to stop trade cheats and help create American jobs.

Can you help me build even more support by forwarding the email below to your friends, encouraging them to become citizen co-sponsors, too?

Thanks,

Claire

Friend --

Frequently, the best ideas I hear come from Missourians when I travel around the state to visit with folks.

During my latest tour, I talked to workers and business leaders about what Washington can do to spur job creation and improve the economy. I was told about an interesting problem that might never have crossed your radar: duty evasion.

Some foreign companies use unfair trading practices to dump exports into the United States at artificially low prices.

When caught, these cheating companies are assessed a protective tariff -- called a duty -- to level the playing field. But the trade cheats seek out ways to avoid paying the penalty.

I plan to introduce legislation that will allow authorities to crack down on foreign companies that are cheating and will help American businesses create jobs. And I need your help.

Click here to sign on as a citizen co-sponsor of my job-creating legislation to crack down on trade cheats today.

Put simply, it hurts American manufacturers when companies evade these duties. What's worse, the companies often disappear before authorities can prosecute them.

We need to empower trade authorities to track down and prosecute the rule-breakers so American manufacturers can compete on a level playing field and create more jobs.

Click here to become a citizen co-sponsor of my job-creating trade legislation today and send Republicans a message about creating jobs.

When American businesses compete on a level playing field, they win. That means more jobs for Missourians and a better economy, so we all win. But we need to bring accountability to foreign companies who are gaming the system and putting our businesses at a disadvantage.

That's the message I heard from the business community in Missouri during my recent jobs tour -- and that's what I'm going to tell my colleagues in Washington.

Together, we can fix this problem. Help me make sure they get the message loud and clear.

Thank you for taking action,

Claire McCaskill

Paid for by McCaskill for Missouri

Final Bay Window Build Pictures

Energy Star Bay Window Build Photos by Scotts Contracting

Click Here if you live in the St Louis Area and would like to add a Energy Star Bay Window to your Home

Click here to See the Material Suppliers for the Custom Energy Star Bay Window

Bay Window CAD and Build Notes

Floor Plan for Bay Window Permit

Before Photo of Home Before Bay Window

Bay Window CAD Detail

Before Bay Window Installation

Bay Window Framing

Final Bay Window Photo

After Bay Window Installation- Final Photo

Home was Originally Built using Square Nails- Found while removing the Existing Siding for Bay Window Installation

Interior View of Prefinished Oak Flooring 

Installing R13 Fiberglass Batt Insulation

Scotty, Scotts Contracting- Testing the Bay Window Floor for Strength

Final Photo- Another Job Well Done, On-Time, and On Budget

Bay Window Oak Flooring Photo

Build Photo

Additional Reasons Solar Panels are a Good Investment for your Building

• Solar Panels Shade(1) your Roof

• Thus helps lower your Summertime Cooling Costs because: Study Shows a building's ceiling was five degrees cooler under solar energy panels than under an exposed roof.
• Solar Panels Protect your Roof
• Thus increasing the Lifetime Expectancy of your Roof

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Mo. lawmakers seek to end tax break for poor

MO State Wire
DAVID A. LIEB
Published: Yesterday

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - The downturn in the economy already had cost Kim Ellis more than half of her clients at her small janitorial business. Her troubles were doubled by her vehicle, which after nearly 300,000 miles had saddled her with thousands of dollars in repairs and cast doubt on her ability to work.

Thanks in part to a $750 state tax credit for certain low-income residents, Ellis has at least solved her transportation problem. She used the money from the state income tax break to pay the sales taxes and licensing fees on the purchase of a newer, used car.

"It helped me quite a bit," Ellis said, "and I would hate for them to take it away."

Yet during a special session that starts Tuesday, Missouri lawmakers are poised to repeal the low-income tax credit that benefits at least 106,000 disabled and elderly residents living in rental housing. The move could save the state $855 million over 15 years, and some lawmakers want to redirect a portion of that money to new tax breaks intended to lure Chinese cargo planes to the St. Louis airport and more businesses to Missouri.

Advocates for the disabled and senior citizens are gearing up to fight the tax-credit repeal. But they may face a tough battle, because the elimination of the so-called "circuit breaker" tax credit for low-income renters is the single largest budgetary savings being proposed to offset the cost of the new business incentives.

Supporters of the special-session proposal contend Missouri must do something dramatic to spur job growth - even if it means less money in the pockets of the poor.

"While we're not very happy with the elimination of some provisions that help people in need, we've got to get our people to work if we're ever going to have enough money in the state coffers again to support human need issues," said Herb Johnson, secretary-treasurer of the Missouri AFL-CIO, which has joined the Missouri Chamber Commerce and Industry in backing the plan.

Since 1973, Missouri has offered a state income tax break intended to offset the property taxes or rent payments of low-income seniors. Over the years, that "circuit breaker" tax break has been expanded to also cover the disabled and the surviving spouses of deceased seniors.

For the 2010 tax year, Missouri paid out nearly $117 million in such tax breaks, with about $57 million going to people in rental housing.

Last year, the Missouri Tax Credit Review Commission - appointed by Gov. Jay Nixon - recommended the tax break be eliminated for renters but continued for homeowners under the theory that renters do not directly pay property taxes. Nixon initially opposed the recommendation, saying in December that the challenging economy made it an especially bad time to end the tax break for the poor.

"Maintaining the ability of seniors to get those income-eligible circuit breakers - whether they rent or whether they own - is an important consumer protection," Nixon said in December.

But the Democratic governor has now changed his position. Last week, Nixon said he could support ending the tax credit for renters, so long as an equivalent amount of money is dedicated to be spent on senior services. Nixon said his administration is working with lawmakers drafting the legislation to include a fund earmarked for senior citizen programs.

But state Sen. Chuck Purgason, who hopes to handle the legislation, said the fund amounts to little more than a political gimmick. If it's not immediately the case, politicians would eventually use the money from the dedicated fund to offset cuts in other sources of revenue for senior programs - resulting in little net gain for seniors, Purgason said.

"The reality of it is, if you're going to believe politicians are going to set up a fund and appropriate to senior programs, that is another wool over the eyes of taxpayers," said Purgason, R-Caulfield.

That's what stokes the concerns of people such as Minnie May, 75, who recently sold her house in the southeast Missouri town of Patterson and moved into a small rental home in nearby Piedmont. May, whose gets $686 a month in Social Security payments, said she has received about $300 annually from Missouri's homeowner tax credit, which she has used to help pay her bills. Now that she lives in a rented home, May's tax break could be in jeopardy.

May uses an analogy from her farming background to describe her distaste for the legislative proposal.

"When one chicken plucks a feather out of another chicken, all the other chickens do too until there's nothing left of the chicken," May said. "And that's just what these lawmakers are doing, they're taking one feather off at a time until the elderly and disabled have nothing. And there's just no need of it, absolutely no need of it."

Ellis, 43, of south St. Louis County, has received the income tax break for renters because of her disabilities, which include rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia. She calls the proposal to end the tax credit "one of the worst ideas ever."

"I think they're making a big mistake if they were to get rid of it, especially now," Ellis said. "People need something they can depend on."

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