J B Ramsey, Franklin Window Treatment

Local Window Treatment Experience in J B Ramsey

J B Ramsey housing: four recorded plats, lot numbers to 57

The public record for J B Ramsey is thinner than for Franklin's production subdivisions, and it's worth being clear about which parts are missing. Home count is not separately counted in county data. Lot size is null in the ACRES attribute for most parcels in the plat. Build era is not directly sourced. What is recorded is the structure: an original plat plus 2nd, 3rd and 4th subdivisions, lot numbers to at least 57, three streets in South Highland Drive, South Center Lane and South Nineveh Road, and architectural styles listed as ranch and small two story. We'd rather print that than a home count we invented.

For context, Franklin's 1940 to 1979 band holds 2,558 units, a quarter of the city's 10,275, and the 1970s share here is thin at 5.5 percent against Greenwood's 10.9 percent. A J B Ramsey house is more likely to sit in the 1950s or 1960s part of that band than at either end, which is reasoning from the platting pattern rather than a record. Window schedules run 12 to 18 openings, a narrow range and a low one against the 24 to 30 that the largest new plans on the edge of Franklin carry. Fewer openings means the per window budget goes further than it would across town.

Measuring in J B Ramsey: settled openings, inconsistent depth

Start with squareness, because it's the variable that costs money when it's wrong. Franklin's record says to assume out of square in anything mid century that has settled on Johnson County clay, and ranch is the leading style on record in J B Ramsey. We run a three point measure on width and height at every opening. Then the factory takes its standard 1/16 inch per side off the finished width so the product clears. On a square opening you get an even reveal. On an opening a quarter inch narrower at the sill than at the header, that deduction plus the Lutron published 3/4 inch per side inside mount light gap becomes a visible taper of daylight down one edge.

Depth is the second variable and it moves inside a single house. Franklin's mid century stock that has had newer units fitted inside the original frames loses flat depth unpredictably at the stop, so one bedroom takes a fully recessed headrail and the one next door doesn't. Exposure is more predictable: South Nineveh Road and South Highland Drive both run north to south, which puts principal elevations on those frontages east or west. South Center Lane's alignment isn't stated, so we read that one with a compass on site. At 12 to 18 openings a J B Ramsey house is a short schedule, and it's worth doing carefully rather than quickly.

What we specify most in J B Ramsey

Two facts drive the specification here, and neither of them is fashion. Openings are likely out of square, and depth is unreliable inside a single house. Both push toward products that cover the opening rather than fit inside it, or that tolerate a frame that isn't true. The upside is the schedule: 12 to 18 openings is a short list by Franklin standards, so the per window budget stretches further than it would in a 3,420 sq ft plan across town. Custom work runs $250 to $2,600 per window nationally, shutters $175 to $800 and drapery $300 to $4,000. No Franklin installed pricing is published.

J B Ramsey on the Nineveh Road corridor

J B Ramsey sits in southwest Franklin in ZIP 46131, fronting South Nineveh Road, which points toward the rural Nineveh township south of the city rather than toward the Interstate 65 and US 31 side where Franklin's newer growth went. Inside the plat the streets on record are South Highland Drive and South Center Lane. Franklin is the Johnson County seat, and its courthouse square is separately listed on the National Register in its own right. Schools run through the Franklin Community School Corporation, which covers the entire city as one district: elementary by address, then Franklin Community Middle School and Franklin Community High School.

Window Treatment Services in J B Ramsey

Every service Franklin Window Treatments offers across Franklin is available to J B Ramsey homeowners.

From Franklin to the County Line

J B Ramsey is one of several Franklin communities we serve. We measure and install across Franklin, Johnson County, and surrounding areas.

J B Ramsey Window Treatment FAQ

Questions we hear most often from J B Ramsey homeowners.