Henry has been painting the new windows with something called Sadolin. The windows arrived unfinished. This Sadolin stuff isn't cheap! £40 pounds for a 2.5 litre tin! That works out to about $69.50 of your American dollars at todays rate of exchange. You get what you pay for though. I am told it glides onto the wood like a dream. It sure looks nice when it is dry. He's been going out to the unheated extension in his boiler suit every night after dinner to go and paint. To ease things here in the house, I am doing the after work stuff like cooking, vacuuming and dishes.