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Surge in roofing boosts construction

Shortly after midnight Saturday, April 15, a storm pelted Plainview with golfball- to softball-sized hail, damaging many roofs that had been repaired months earlier following a 2015 storm.

Now that insurance adjusters have completed their work, the roofing crews are busy making repairs. That strong level of activity is reflected in the City of Plainviews report on construction activity during May 2017.

That report, issued Thursday, shows 94 permits for roofing projects issued during May for a combined value of $1,562,306.55. That activity accounts for the lions share of the 108 building permits issued during May, as well as the months total $1,627,326.55 construction value.

For the calendar year-to-date, construction stands at $2,595,889.44 for 201 projects. Thats triple the 2016 total for the same period of $831,952 for 100 projects. As expected, roofing activity accounts for most of the 2017 year-to-date tally with 146 projects for a total of $2,127,140.53.

The City of Plainview began requiring building permits for roofing in January. As a result, no comparison figures on roofing from 2016 and previous years are available.

Other than roofing, the city issued 14 permits for construction in May. Those projects, and corresponding value, include: five residential additions, $7,150; two residential remodels, $24,205; two garage/carports, $2,050; one commercial addition, $700; one commercial demolition, $23,000; and three signs, $7,915.

For the year-to-date, building permits have been issued for 12 residential additions, $47,250; nine residential remodels, $29,183.51; 10 garage/carports, $13,350; two storage buildings, $5,500; one new commercial, $21,000; two commercial additions, $169,988; five commercial remodels, $44,600; one commercial repair, $20,000; three commercial demolition, $23,000; 10 signs, $94,877.40; and 146 roofing, $2,127,140.53.

Three certificates of occupancy were issued during May, to Milagros Boutique, 1710 W. 13th; V-Twin Service, 801 S. Columbia; and FedEx, 1501 N. I-27.

Non-roofing construction projects include: Alvaro Monarrez, 1507 W. 11th, commercial addition-awning; Rogelio Acosta, 1122 W. 31st, residential addition-porch; Clearview Home Exteriors 2413 Kermit, residential remodel-windows; The Desert Inn, 111 W. Sixth, commercial demolition; Gilbert Escalante, 1012 Davidson, residential addition-awning; Carlos Castillo, 1305 W. 15th, garage/carport; Noel Cortez, 712 Elm, residential remodel; FedEx, 1501 N. I-27, sign; Maria Ramirez, 2914 Navasota, residential addition-awning; Radar Supports, 2807 W. Seventh, sign; PMG Digital Inc., 3324 Olton Road, sign; Rufino Juarez, 1400 Travis, residential addition-patio; Dustin Morgan, 2406 Galveston, garage/carport; Dustin Morgan, 2406 Galveston, residential addition.

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A local roof expert answers questions about resident roofing maintenance and repairs.

Martin Morales Co-owner, 1st Choice Roofing & Construction

Martin Morales Co-owner, 1st Choice Roofing & Construction

How often should a homeowner have a roof checked? Its recommended to have someone take a look at your roof every year to every two years, and the reason being is because sometimes you have trees around the house, or a branch may have fallen on the home and caused some damage. A lot of times if weve had storms come throughand they dont have to be a significant stormbut there might be something caused from high winds so something was projected toward the roof. A homeowner may not know that because they dont get up on their roof and [by] looking at your roof from the ground, you cant see whats going on with the roof. In a years time, a lot can happen.

What are some common causes of roof leaks? Any type of abnormal penetrations in the roof, whether it be from tree branches or from anything that could have hit the roof, including possible storm damage. Some of the nails of the roofing accessories, they are going to be exposed and theyre supposed to have sealant on them. [But] the sealant could be wearing away and the nail head becomes exposed. [Then] they start to rust and back out of their seat, and water can penetrate a nail hole. Its a very common cause and can cause structural damage to the decking and possibly into a rafter or into the Sheetrock or interiors and insulation. We even look at the gutters. Are they clean or full? Because if youre not getting proper drainage, water can back up.

Is there a certain time of year to have a roof inspected?The way we look at it is as long as you have your roof inspected on an annual or biannual basis, it doesnt matter when you want to have your roof looked at. You want to have your roof looked at to see if it is as watertight as possible. We could get a storm in April [or] we could get a storm getting toward storm season, but right after winter and spring, thats a good time, especially in March and April. Thats when were going into storm season, and then you can get prepared for the rest of the year.

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The proposed development site on 120 Street and 75A Avenue. (James Smith photo)

If approved, it would be the second such development along Scott Road after the 37-story Delta Rise.

A potential 35-storey residential development on Scott Road is advancing to public consultation after approval from council on Monday, May 29.

The application is for a 35-storey residential building with limited commercial space at ground level and several three-storey townhouse units at the northwest corner of 75A Avenue and Scott Road. The building would have underground parking, accessible from 119A Street.

Councils approval means the consultation process for the proposed development can begin; it does not necessarily mean the development will be approved for construction.

The public consultation process will include placing public notice signs along the properties on 120 Street, 75A Avenue and 119A street; sending notices to surround property owners; holding a public information meeting to introduce the proposed development; and holding a public hearing if the application proceeds past second reading.

Community planning and development director Jeff Day said the developers want to move this forward as quickly as possible.

I anticipate the public information meeting would happen before true summer comes in, he continued.

At the public information meeting, information on the buildings amenities will be brought forward. Currently, the development includes limited commercial spaces on the ground floor of the building, including a coffee shop and a business office because, Day said, we dont want to dilute the commercial along Scott Road.

If the development is approved, the six properties covered by the development would be rezoned from multi-unit residential properities and medium density residential properties to mixed use properties.

Its just at the preliminary stage right now, Day said. Theres a lot of things we need to go through in terms of the form and the character of [the development].

The developments design will be brought forward during first and second readings, giving council members and the public a chance to weigh in on what the building would look like.

At this point, were satisified that its developed to a mark that council would expect where we are able to take it out to the public, Delta CAO George Harvie said during the May 29 council meeting. But we always come back with some good additions and modifications based on public consultation.

If approved, this would be the second high rise along that stretch of Scott Road. Delta Rise, which was officially completed on May 6, 2017, is a 37-storey residential building on 120 Street and 80 Avenue.

The new proposed development is located within the area covered by the Scott Road revitalization bylaw, which has established reduced municipal fees and taxes to encourage commercial and high density residential development along the Delta/Surrey border.

However, the proposed development would not automatically qualify for those bylaw incentives: eligibilty has to be determined first.

The application for the building was put forward by developers Arzone Real Estate Investment Ltd. and Hari Homes Incorporated.

Both parties has been involved in other North Delta development proposals in the past, including a 20-unit townhouse development proposal on 84th Avenue and 115 Street.

An application for a 35-storey high rise on 120th Street was approved by council on Monday, May 29. The proposed development will no go through several stages of public consultation. (Council report photo)

An application for a 35-storey high rise on 120th Street was approved by council on Monday, May 29. The proposed development will no go through several stages of public consultation. (Council report photo)

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Final Fantasy 15 is strange. While the series has dabbled in online gaming with its two MMOs (most notably Final Fantasy 14, aka the greatest redemption story ever told), its single-player adventures have been decidedly offline affairs - up until now. In addition to receiving patches that added new story content (including a secondary path through the notorious Chapter 13), along with Episode Gladiolus from the season pass, Final Fantasy 15 has held a limited-time-only Chocobo Festival, added timed quests in the form of additional hunts, complete with special in-game rewards, and is holding monthly photo contests. Final Fantasy 15 has changed dramatically since its November launch, finding new ways to bridge the gap between its offline story and a larger online audience, and it'll probably change even more come the one-year anniversary. Strangest of all, I'm way more into the idea than I thought I'd be.

When I finished Final Fantasy 15 for my review in the days leading up to release, I had expected that, other than the occasional DLC mission or tech fix, my experience was generally going to be the state of Final Fantasy 15. This is how Square Enix has always approached its single-player RPGs: pop in a copy of Final Fantasy 7 on the PS1 and you'll find the same game you played 20 years ago, grammatical "this guy are sick" errors and all. Even the Final Fantasy 13 trilogy went largely unchanged, save for a handful of DLC packs you can buy. But the months following Final Fantasy 15's launch saw a host of tweaks and additions, like the ability to increase your character levels beyond 99, a New Game+ option, and even limited-time events and quests. The quests are particularly interesting, because they're curated battles in specific areas of the game's world, and completing them allows you to upload your score to an online leaderboard and redeem points for exclusive rewards. It's like turning Final Fantasy 7 on and finding another brand-new super-powerful Weapon to fight - but you only have a week to take it out.

It's weird, especially for someone who's been a fan of the series since the SNES days. For a while, I questioned why Square Enix was even bothering - it already has fans' money, and the story is essentially done, so why bother adding more stuff to it? Then I found myself playing these timed quests for hours, running to and fro, fighting enemies, and chasing high scores. I'd been planning on replaying Final Fantasy 15 at some point (as I always do with the games I like), but the constant stream of updates has ensured that I keep checking back in just to see what's new, and getting fresh stuff to mess with during a second playthrough of the game's story has made the draw to return more alluring.

And then it dawned on me: this is how Final Fantasy stays relevant in the modern era. Big games can no longer be released as one-and-done stories without either losing money or significantly shrinking their scope. Corporations don't want to do the former, and consumers hate when big-budget games do the latter. Instead, many publishers are opting to go the "games as service" route, arriving with a steady stream of free and paid updates so the games can constantly find itself as a part of the conversation. The problem with this is that it's easy to miss out on content if you're not following along every single day, and once the servers get shut down, most of what makes that game unique is gone - if you can even play it any more at all. While Final Fantasy 15's take on the model won't work for everyone, it certainly helps it to retain its offline identity while giving it new life in the months following release.

The idea to implement Final Fantasy 15's timed quests came from how players reacted to the Japan-only 'Judgement Disc' demo. We spoke to lead game designer and multiplayer DLC director Kazuya Takahashi, who explained its genesis: "The content of this demo was extremely restricted in that you could only play until the middle of Chapter One. Yet even then, it was popular among players who ended up finding the hidden Bandersnatch boss, spreading information regarding its location all over Twitter and uploading low-level quest and time attack videos online." The team looked at all this fan-generated content and decided to just implement it into the game, complete with exclusive, game-enhancing rewards.

"It is the development teams sincere belief that responding to these requests as much as possible is the best way to ensure that our players continue playing."

Now, when you boot up Final Fantasy 15, you're not just getting a single-player story; you're competing against everyone else in the world who's pursuing these timed quests. But unlike games like Destiny or larger MMOs like Final Fantasy 14, where these events are a core part of the experience, Final Fantasy 15's timed quests exist in the periphery. They're there for you to dig into if you want, or to ignore if you don't. Even January's limited-time Chocobo Festival, with its mini-games and exclusive dishes (which will unlock for use in the main game once you eat them) existed in a separate option on the title screen, acting as a special bonus for fans but completely invisible if you don't want to engage with that stuff. And if you missed it, well, you didn't miss out on anything that would fundamentally change your perception of Final Fantasy 15's story, and the special festival costumes are just free DLC that you can wear whenever you want anyway. Takahashi wants to host similar carnivals in the future, too, so you might have another shot to check out the next one.

There's even an off-road buggy coming - which sounds like all kinds of stupid fun.

I got to thinking why Square Enix would even bother updated their game with free, live content. The official line from Takahashi is that the team has "received many requests from fans saying that theyd like to know more about the stories that werent depicted in the game or that theyd like to explore other locations in Eos", and that responding to those requests will ensure people keep playing. But these live events aren't strictly DLC - many of them arrive in the form of patches automatically downloaded to your console for free.

And then, Final Fantasy 15 got an update late May, with a survey asking players what they want to see next.

Players could choose one option from the list, which included new story content about its villain, Ardyn Izunia, or the ability to spend more time in the World of Ruin in the game's last few chapters. But rather than feeling like a curveball thrown from a studio suddenly asking players what they want to play, it's a natural extension of the updates the team has already delivered.

Director Hajime Tabata has stated that there are currently no plans to make sequels to Final Fantasy 15 like Square Enix previously did with the Final Fantasy 13 trilogy - instead, it appears that new stories will simply be added to the base game as free or paid DLC. This survey is a declarative statement that Final Fantasy 15 isn't a game that's simply going to disappear once you finish it, but rather a game that will grow and flourish over time. The live events and hunts help to solidify that.

The real problem with trying to create single-player games as a "service" comes when the online functionality inevitably comes to a close. When everyone who played Destiny moves on to its sequel, Activision will eventually turn the game off, effectively destroying an entire virtual universe. Even a single-player game like Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain has a service model built into its online FOB system (allowing players to raid each others' bases for money and resources), and it's a core part of the game's balance and functionality. Take it out, and suddenly it becomes much more difficult to build up your arsenal and complete story missions without grinding (not to mention all the references to it in-game would need to be removed or altered - along with specific moments along the main storyline). These games' identities live online, and without that server-supported backbone, a large part of the experience is lost.

Final Fantasy 15 is different, though - its online hooks are additive, rather than cohesive. There are bonuses for engaging with the content, of course, and the future multiplayer DLC, in whatever form it takes, will probably represent the culmination of these additions. But if the online servers were to suddenly get switched off, you wouldn't be left with half a game - you'd just be missing a small portion of what made the game interesting in a specific moment in time. Players revisiting Final Fantasy 15 decades from now will still get a complete, original, and fully-balanced single-player experience, regardless of whether or not Square Enix is still doling out timed quests - which, given how quickly things move on the internet, might be unlikely even a couple years from now.

But that's still awhile away to worry about now. The question of how we preserve those online experiences continues to be a hotly contested debate, and it's a question we may never really have the answer to. In the meantime, I'm enjoying dipping back into Final Fantasy 15, fighting monsters and building up enough points to buy a magical greatsword that plays electronic music while I wait for the rest of the season pass content to arrive. In a sense, I'm enjoying the idea that Final Fantasy 15 doesn't really have to end - at least for now.

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Southern Utah's bench cheers during Monday's game against Coastal Carolina, Nov. 21, 2016, in Las Vegas, Nevada.(Photo: Jordan Allred / The Spectrum & Daily News)Buy Photo

Todd Simon will experience something for the first time this upcoming season. When the Southern Utah head coach looks down his bench, hell see a full roster of scholarship players at his disposal.

Itll be the first time Ill coach a college basketball game and have a full roster, Simon said. I'm excited to look down and not be short-handed. Thatll be fun.

It sometimes is the simple things that can lead to excitement.

During his first year at SUU, Simon chose not to hand out all the scholarships he had available. And when he was the interim coach at UNLV in 2016, he was down to just six scholarship players by seasons end. The 2017-18 season should be different.

The T-Birds 2017 class features seven new players, five of whom will be immediately eligible to take the court next season.

There are the freshmen: guard Dre Marin, forward Jordan Lyons and forward Jerell Springer. The graduate transfer: forward Jamal Aytes (BYU). And the junior college transfer: Jamil Jackson (Williston State).

SUU also signed Arizona State transfer Andre Adams and Boise State transfer Cameron Oluyitan. Those two players will have to sit out a year per NCAA transfer rules.

College Mens Basketball: Idaho vs Southern Utah, Saturday, Mar. 4, 2017, in Cedar City, Utah. Final score: UI 84, SUU 75.(Photo: Jordan Allred / The Spectrum & Daily News)

We feel that it was a very good offseason for us, Simon said. We are filled up now. We are excited about it. I think we have a good mix. We have three freshmen, two transfers, a grad transfer and a junior college player. We feel that we balanced it pretty good.

So what can fans expect from the new additions?

Marin is a sniper from the outside. The 6-foot averaged 21.7 points his senior season at Apollo High (Arizona) while shooting 38 percent from deep. Lyons, a6-foot-7 wing, averaged 15.2 points and 9.4 rebounds last season for Athlete Institute Prep in Mono, Ontario. And Springer might just be the jewel of the class. Springer is a three-star prospect who didnt get to play his senior season in high school because of an eligibility battle. The 6-foot-6 wing averaged 20 points, 8 rebounds, 2 assists, 3 steals, and just under 1 block per game in his junior year.

Simon looks back at Year 1 and ahead to Year 2

Jackson was ranked as a top 100 junior college player by jucorecruiting.com and a top 50 junior college player by 247Sports.com. The 6-foot-6 wing averaged 15.4 points and 6 rebounds in over 27 minutes per game for Williston State.

Aytes began his career at UNLV before transferring to BYU for two seasons. The 6-foot-6 forward has had injury trouble throughout his career, but if he can stay healthy could provide SUU with an inside scoring presence the T-Birds lacked in Simon's first year.

College Mens Basketball: Montana vs Southern Utah, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, in Cedar City, Utah. Final score: UM 70, SUU 55.(Photo: Jordan Allred / The Spectrum & Daily News)

The T-Birds were an abysmal 6-27 last season and will have to replace four players who were mainstays in the lineup: guards John Marshall (7.6 points and over 30 minutes) and Race Parsons (7.8 points on 38 percent 3-point shooting) and big men Will Joyce (nearly 4 points and 4 rebounds) and Brayden Holker(4 points).

But its more than replacing that production, its improving it. And in some areas, improving it quite a lot. According to KenPom.com, the T-Birds ranked 349 out of 351 teams in defensive efficiency, giving up 119.6 points per 100 possessions.

We were not a good defensive team by any stretch of the imagination or by any metric last year, Simon said. Size, length, and inexperience are probably the three-headed monster that gets you and we missed all three of those things.

College Mens Basketball: Northern Arizona vs Southern Utah, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017, in Cedar City, Utah. Final score: SUU 84, NAU 68.(Photo: Jordan Allred / The Spectrum & Daily News)

The newcomers should help check off some of those boxes. Lyons, Springer and Jackson are long and athletic wings. And Aytes will bring some much-needed experience to the young T-Birds down low. Even Marin, while not as long as his fellow newcomers, was considered one of the better defensive prep guards in Arizona. He averaged 2.8 steals per game during his senior season.

They are long, versatile and athletic, Simon said. They solve a lot of those issues that were highlighted last season.

While Simon admits that Aytes will have an advantage because of his experience, he anticipates each player in the 2017class will come in and immediately compete for minutes.

One through the bottom of the roster, you are talking about some pretty good competition, Simon said. You bring in guys anticipating to add to the top. Im a big believer that iron sharpens iron. You put them in a competition and let the guys figure it out.

The T-Birds will also get to see what Seattle transfer Jadon Cohee can do in a game. Cohee couldn't play last season due to NCAA rules, but in practices showed he has the ability to be one of SUU's top players.

Hes a guy that can really impact the league in so many ways, Simon said of Cohee. Hes physical. Hes a guy that can take the scoring load off of Randy (Onwuasor) and build great plays. Hes a very smart guard, a very intelligent guard.

And with all those players adding to an improving core of Randy Onwuasor, James McGee, Jacob Calloway and Ivan Madunic, the SUU head coach has some options to play with.

College Mens Basketball: Sacramento State vs Southern Utah, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, in Cedar City, Utah. Final score: SAC 88, SUU 83.(Photo: Jordan Allred / The Spectrum & Daily News)

He could go for a lethal shooting lineup of Cohee, Onwuasor, McGee, Marin and Calloway.

A more traditional position lineup of Onwuasor, McGee, Springer, Aytes and Madunic

A near-positionless lineup of Cohee, Onwuasor, Jackson, Lyons and Calloway.

A lineup playing all three new wings (Jackson, Lyons and Springer) at the same time.

Or one of many other possibilities he didn't have his first season.

So if Todd Simon looks down his bench and smiles, youll know why.

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C.M. Russell High School is prepping for a facelift this summer.

Principal Kerry Parsons says the school will start the foundational building of a new athletic facility during that time. The new facilities will feature a wrestling room, a second basketball court, and a fitness room - as well as additions to the track.

CMR is currently the only AAschool without a second gym, which has forced student athletes to go to West Elementary for practices and sub-varsity games.

The district has talked about upgrading the athletic facility for more than 20 years.

Outside of sports, there will be a new science and math building. Principal Parsons says within the next year and a half, the Rustlers will finally see some much needed improvements that will benefit all.

"What this will do is it will help with our practices and not require our kids to be here so early in the morning and so late at night, which will improve their lives obviously - with academics and their family lives with them not having to be here," Principal Parsons explained."When you have restricted facilities and a lot of kids involved, it's nice to have more facilities particularly in one location, so our campus will enhance in a lot of ways with these improvements."

The public will have one final say in the project.If you have any input or concerns - there will be a meeting this coming Monday at Bill Williamson Hall on the campus of CMRfor officials to hear your feedback.At the meeting, whoever attends will also be able to see the design plans.

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Attendance Dilemmas Are Challenging The Yankees To Revisit The Fan Experience Forbes The New York Yankees have been a pleasant surprise at the outset of the 2017 baseball season. Most prognosticators and algorithms predicted the Yankees to be an unspectacular ball club who would win approximately 82 ball games this season. However ...

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Riot Games, developer and publisher of League of Legends, has revealed details regarding its new franchising model for the North American League of Legends Championship Series (NA LCS). This includes an application process for teams, revenue sharing, a players' association and a retooling of the Challenger scene into the Academy League.

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Bloomberg reports that franchises will cost a flat $10 million for existing NA LCS organizations, with newcomers required to pay an extra $3 million to compensate teams not selected to the group of 10 for the 2018 season. Franchises will have the option to pay this fee over time, with the potential for some of the cost to be waived based on the league hitting financial goals over the next few years.

The European LCS does not plan to move to a franchise model "at this point," Riot announced. The announcement cited a "uniquely diverse region" as a reason for the decision and mentioned that more information on the future of the EU LCS would come later this year.

To become a franchise team in the NA LCS, organizations will need to work through three steps outlined in Riot's news release. First, teams that want to franchise in the league will need to apply to do so. Riot will work with "expert third parties" to scope out details about teams and organizations. Second, Riot will review the teams and their proposals, which will include an "in-person presentation and Q&A, as well as some deeper dives into finances, credit checks, and background checks for the owners." Riot's criteria include having a "stable, professional, well-funded and committed" organization. Lastly, teams will be selected and announced in the fourth quarter of 2017 for the 2018 season.

Teams will no longer have to worry about relegation. Currently, the LCS works on a relegation system in which the bottom two teams at the end of the spring and summer split must fight for their spot via a promotion tournament, fending off up-and-coming teams from the Challenger Series. With the abolishment of the Challenger Series, the 10 teams that are franchised will be able to field an Academy League team, which Riot hopes will meet a variety of needs to pro teams, such as housing deeper rosters to encourage faster development of younger players.

"Removing the uncertainty around relegation will enable teams to be able to better plan for their future, and to make long term bets and investments in the league," Riot said in its release.

Removing relegation, however, might disincentivize teams from performing at peak levels knowing they can't be dropped to Challenger. To mitigate this, Riot will give financial incentives for good performance and will disqualify teams that finish ninth or 10th five times over an eight-split span (four years).

Revenue sharing is another major part of the evolution of the league. Last year, Riot started making moves with the media deals and digital goods surrounding teams, and it is looking to build on that by requiring teams to "share a portion of their league-driven revenues as well (including things like sponsorships and merch sales)."

"This aligns the interests of all parties (while still granting considerable opportunity for motivated owners and superstar players to earn outsized revenues), creating a strong and competitive ecosystem," the release states.

Additionally, Bloomberg reports that teams may use revenue sharing to pay for franchise fees to help offset some of the $10 million cost of securing a spot in the league.

Lastly, Riot will be creating the NA LCS Players' Association, giving "pros a seat at the table in league decisions," as well as access to resources such as lawyers, financial advisers and agents.

Although Riot will initially fund the association, it hopes that one day players will take over financial responsibilities and make it a fully independent players' union.

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Clean the surrounding area thoroughly. If there were weights, remove the pulleys and apply a small amount of caulk to any holes.

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Locate the sill flashing and the four long installation screws after unwrapping the new vinyl window and discarding of that pesky header expander. Sill flashing for a vinyl window is an L shaped piece of vinyl that is the same width as the replacement window unit. The vertical part of the L shape is slotted, allowing it to clip onto the bottom, outer edge of the window unit and shed water away from the bottom of the window.

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Lay the sill flashing centered on the windowsill. Mark both sides where it hits the exterior window stops. Remove the lower part of the L shape on both sides as marked to allow the sill flashing to fit into place. Once trimmed, lay the sill flashing back in place and trace the outside edge with a pencil.

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Apply a 3/8 bead of silicone or silicone fortified sealant to the inside surface of the exterior stops. Make sure you get both sides and the top. Then, apply a 1/4 bead directly to the wood sill on the inside of your pencil line.

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Snap the sill flashing onto the bottom, outer rim of the new window unit.

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Using the four provided screws, fasten the window to the frame at the four pre-drilled locations. (These are usually located about four inches from the top and bottom on both sides.

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Tighten the screws until they hold the window firmly in place. Be sure the window is centered in the window opening. (Keep in mind that vinyl is much softer, and more flexible than wood. Over-tightening the screws can damage the frame of the window.)

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Fully close and lock the window.

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Fully open the window by lifting the bottom sash.

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Stop adjusting once the gap is even.

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Use a rag with water or paint thinner (depending on your choice of sealant) to clean any excess sealant from the frame of the window.

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Check the perimeter of the window for good contact with the exterior window stops. If necessary, apply a thin bead around the perimeter to eliminate any voids, and leave a smooth, weather-tight seal.

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