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This weekend was spent reinstalling panes. I have reinstalled panes in 3 1/2 sashes (6 sashes in project). I will glaze all sashes at the same time.Before reinstalling the panes I first made sure all the old glazing, paint, and debris was removed fro [Read More]

Window update.......Thanks Jennifer (Our Tiny Old House blog) for your concern. Believe it or not, the nails held tight. Now if only my fingernails hold up as well during this window scraping adventure.Today I started scraping. I spent about an hour [Read More]

Things are a little slow here at StuccoHouse, so I thought what I would do is write a series of posts about the steps I'm taking in restoring my old windows. I have 13 double hung, 12 casement, and 3 stationary windows.This is not new territory and m [Read More]

Or... "You can never own too many clamps." Nick's been busy the past few weeks using up all the salvaged fir we had left.  There's enough wood for the sashes, but we'll have to buy wood for the frames. He glued up all the pieces, put them t [Read More]

It’s the seasonal rituals that fill me with joy—hanging the wreath, gathering photos to send with the holiday cards, cramming caulk into every cranny so I don’t feel like I’m skiing every time I walk by one of the vinyl windows th [Read More]

I've been down and out with the flu. Although I did manage to haul my fevered self outside to shovel the 4" of snow we received this weekend off my sidwalk and am gearing myself up to also shovel the 4-5" of anticpated snow this afternoon. Oh, the jo [Read More]

Nick spent yesterday and the afternoon in the shop today. He cleaned up all the old fir that we have salvaged from the house. There were some old kitchen cabinet shelves and some old posts taken out of the walls. He cut them down to size and put them [Read More]

So Nick and I are back to work and Phil has gone back to Wisconsin.  In all reality we won't be able to install the new window until Christmas time. That means Phil can be here when we do that, and it will give us enough time to prime the trim. [Read More]

Wow. I feel so affirmed!!! What a great article about restoring wood windows in the Chicago Tribune. The Historic Chicago Bungalow Initiative and the City of Chicago have FINALLY gotten around to approving tax breaks for bungalow owners who restor [Read More]

Success! The window is largely complete.  It isn't installed; the sashes are currently installed in the frame, set up in my shop.  It operates pretty well - I can slide the lower sash up and it stays in place, and I can slide the lower sash [Read More]

Nick and Phil have been busy.  They say it's going a bit slower than they thought, but since this is the first window, they are being very careful. A wrong cut on this project would be a huge setback.Here's a picture of the profile of the stiles [Read More]

Day One of window building is now complete.  We started the day with a trip across town to Hardwick's hardware store, in search of a window-sash router bit set.  In fact, we bought a sash bit last night at Rockler, but I pretty much decided [Read More]

Phil arrived today and after we had lunch, he and Nick got down to the planning: The goal for this week is to build a double hung window to replace our original 1907 windows.  This is the window they will be building a replacement for this [Read More]

I alluded to it in yesterday's post. If you are an old house owner visiting Portland, from the moment your plane lands you hear a soft whisper beckoning you from across the Willamette River. With the Oregon countryside under my belt, on my second fr [Read More]

It's fall, and in the North, all thoughts turn to winterizing. That means windows: getting them all back in! (See also related series of posts at House in Progress). This weekend I broke the record for number of windows sashes stripped in a single we [Read More]

After the great wood window restoration of Aught-Seven, I took a little break. And then I took more of a break. And then some more. Not from work, but just from renovation work. I would putter down in the workshop at night, but I wasn't getting [Read More]

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When we first moved into our house, I noticed that there were some strange wooden storm widows in the the garden shed. I might not have figure out what they were for except that they had labels written on them like "master bedroom," "bathroom," etc, [Read More]

Above: A heat shield commonly used by plumbers while soldering joints helped me save the old glass in this fixed window. You can see the putty scraped easily off the rabbet just above the tape. Over the weekend, I did myself proud by removing rock-h [Read More]

Regarding that stuck window: Maybe I needed another pair of eyes more than another pair of arms. Trusty Rhoda came to my aid armed with a scraper, but as I was demonstrating the stuckness of said window–voila!– I got it.  So, is the less [Read More]