Pub. 2 2021-2022 Issue 1

29 What about water tests? Wind pressure tests are important, and that will continue, but so are water tests. California and Colorado already do them. Utah will do them, too. We are preparing for that by training people. Do you have any specific information about windows you would like this magazine’s readers to know? We have great products, and we don’t exaggerate or tell stories about them. People like to do business with us because we do our very best to take care of them. I’ve had experience with window companies throughout the U.S.; we are conservative and financially sound. Some companies turn over their staff like hotcakes, but we have employees who have been with the company for 30 or 40 years. They are good people. b Once I no longer had responsibility for specific dealers and began to work as an architectural rep, a whole new world opened up to me. I had to learn new words, codes, the concerns of architects and how to help them or be a resource for them. The class I teach, “Specifying Windows, Doors, and Skylights using Performance Standards,” has taught me the criteria one must master to build a structurally sound building as far as windows are concerned.