Well not at our house!
Apparently several years ago, Mr. and Mrs. L (people who lived here before us) experienced a break-in. Some crackhead (don't know this detail for sure but they found him later, laying down in the street, hands covered in blood and crying to himself...so I'm gonna go with crack) punched through the basement door and tried to enter the house. This obviously scared the bejesus out of Mrs. L, so Mr. L went about making the basement Fort Knox. This involved caulking all of the basement windows shut.
Thanks Mr. L. Thanks for that.
I wasn't sure if it was the caulk at first since the hinges looked (and still look) like this. Mmmmmm....crusty caked-on paint.
But yeah, turned out to definitely be the caulk. So I went about peeling it out. Not easy! I wanted to pry them open but we only had a huge crowbar...too huge for this job. As my Dad always says, you have to have the right tools. I found this one at El Depot for under $10.
Pwerfect! Couldn't pry them open without peeling the caulk first though. Again - not easy. Tools of choice?
I believe the blue-handled one is a gardening tool for removing weeds. Who cares. I have used this thing for several projects. I used it to lift carpet staples from the wood floors, I used it to strip caulk in the bathroom. Weed puller = new fav multi-tool. Anyway, I used it to strip the caulk from the windows. Sometimes it came off in long satisfying strips.
Aaaahhh.
After the majority of the caulk was peeled, the windows still wouldn't open. Enter mini-crowbar - windows popped right open.
Lindsay:1 Windows: 0
*Yes, those are the curtains in the basement (dry heave). And they're still hanging!! What's wrong with us!? Foul and disgusting.
