The Historic District

During the winter we had a single pane of glass fall out of a sidelight window. Taking advantage of staging on the side of the house, I climbed up yesterday to replace that one pane. That turned into removing the sash and restoring it.











It is the top left little window. My contractor told me the louvered vent and other sidelight window needs repair, too. Guess what I’ll be doing this week?!?!

Well, of course. And now the beautifully restored little window is going to make the rest of the windows jealous.

awomanwithahammer wrote:Well, of course. And now the beautifully restored little window is going to make the rest of the windows jealous.

Yes Paul, it’s a slippery slope, do one and the one next to it looks shabby, so you do that one, then the next. In a few years (or many years in our case) you have them all restored and wonder, just were did all that time go? But gezzzz they look good.

nice old bench paul, good place to restore your old sash!

that little four lite sash looks very dry...may I suggest a coat of blopentine
(50/50 blend of boiled linseed oil/turpentine) once the paint is removed?
apply blop over the entire sash then wipe off excess (dispose of rags/papertowel
in a bucket of water)...follow that by a good oil primer (I use ben moore 024)...
then set the glass....did you get yourself some sarco putty?

....jade

Thank you for the compliments on the bench. It was my grandfather’s. He bought it in 1913 when he immigrated from Sweden. The tail vice and bench dogs make the work much easier. I will post a full pic when it isn’t covered in project stuff.

The window has about -100 moisture content. After I repair the muntins it will get a good wipe down.

I am on my second can of Sarco. It is my new friend.

There is a little voice in my head saying I should mill a new window to the same specs. The time and money spent may be worth it. Decisions decisions.

My first round of repairs did well.
I spent the day making some contoured knives to repair the muntins.

Wow, what a great idea, Paul! I wish I had thought of that when I was restoring all my windows.

Paul, can I ask what are you using those contoured knives for? I can’t imagine they are strong/hard enough to act as scrapers?

PaulJohnson wrote:My first round of repairs did well.
I spent the day making some contoured knives to repair the muntins.

Are they for shaping epoxy?

Manalto wrote:

PaulJohnson wrote:My first round of repairs did well.
I spent the day making some contoured knives to repair the muntins.

Are they for shaping epoxy?

That was my guess, Ron.