Miscellaneous Misc Retail Displays Signs. Phone: Fax: Toll Free: Hours: Monday through Saturday, 9am to 5pm and Sundays 11am — 5pm. For some high quality period appropriate hardware this is a great place to shop. Wide selection with great designs and everything is solidly built for those who care about quality. Think Restoration Hardware but at a price normal people can afford.
My biggest competitor! What am I even doing sharing this? Serious, Justin Smith runs a great little shop selling the same kind of stuff I do except instead of devising better methods for restoring windows and teaching folks like I do, he is helping all of us by inventing and manufacturing better hardware and window accessories that are designed for window restorers.
He sells very clever products that nobody else on the web has that you should definitely check out. The best store on the web! Wait, that may be a little bias, but hey. My store is focused on sourcing the supplies, tools, and knowledge products you need every day to get the work done of restoring old windows. The windows have aluminum tracks along the sides the whole length of the window. I was able to get the sash out by tipping the bottom part of track outwards.
However my question is some of the top sashes do not stay up. I do not see any sash cords or for the counter balance devices. How do I tighten these rails so the sashes stay in place? Also, can I spray foam along the sides of these windows if the are no weights?
The real window expert is here where you can post your question. I have a home with the original windows and most of the original storm windows. I am looking at replacing 4 windows due to the prior owner having painted them a bit open, yes open, and to increase efficiency and cut drafts,… They are easy enough to repair for they are in quite good shape.
If I have these restored, can they be made to be as efficient as the new double pain sashes? I am looking at Marvin for a sash replacement only. Please read my website. The answer is there. Actually your questions is answered numerous times. Hi, I have a beautiful old double hung wood window in my small bathroom that opens to 3 season porch and not the outside. And also avoid major wall damage plaster w wire walls.
Is any of this feasible? Or ideas? Thanks Jim. Or can we paint the exterior and interior different colors? Just because you have a dark green window sash on the exterior does not mean that you need to also paint the interior. Do you paint your interior walls the same color as the exterior of your house? Interior windows should be natural wood and match all the interior trim. A Colonial can have painted interior trim. We want to keep the wood. Can the glass be replaced? At this point we have found no one who can help.
Yes depending on the thickness of the glass. I have some wood storm windows on my house and I had on one window, the glass was not original wavy glass replaced with Pilkington insulated glass. They will even come to your house to do glazing. I am an avid woodworker and I recently rescued an old antique window that a friend replaced in his house and left out in his backyard. I will soon be starting restoration on it. I am planning on building a new workshop sometime in the not so distant future and would like to build reproduction windows for it.
I am using the one I salvaged as a guide. My family has pine trees that have been growing for over 50 years and have not been touched. I also work with antique hand tools, and have sash cutters for my combination plane, so hopefully they will be faithful reproductions. My home was built in It has all original windows save one large fixed window that was taken out and replaced with a thermal pane that is now fogging up.
I am having a window custom made that will match the rest of my original windows. I will install myself. My question: How were these fixed sashes secured in place? But what about the outside? Was it nailed directly to the jamb, perhaps with finish nails and a nail set? Possibly another reader can. Old House Journal online? Check my window repair listing and ask someone.
Good luck! It has brownish rustic stone on the front and siding everywhere else. The original owners who we purchased from put in wood windows from a local company which is no longer in business. There are NO screens so we could not open them even if the wood was not rotten, plus there seems to be warping on a lot of the tracks where the window slides up and down, I think its called the track. We would like to know your opinion on what we can do to remedy this bad situation.
We are thinking the best thing is to purchase new windows that open and have screens so we can enjoy the great outdoor air we live in the country , but we are unsure what windows to purchase?
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