Historic Wood Window - Sill Repair (Overhaul)

The world's largest shuffleboard club is currently restoring all their historic windows - wood and metal. The building, home of some heart pine six over six and four over four historic double hung wood windows, had fallen into disrepair and is now being saved, thanks to the support of many interested people.

Protection from Lead Paint

Many people express concern about the dust generated from scraping the old lead paint from the windows. One method, shown here, builds a temporary room surrounding the work area. The bubble keeps the dust travel to a minimum. It's important to protect one's self from over exposure to lead paint - hence the coveralls and masks.

Sash Repairs on Site

Pictured, Danny Moody puts the final scrape on the sash rebates before we begin the repairs.

Historic Wood Window Schematic

Here's a picture from the Old House Journal, ca 1982 that is helpful in being able to discuss the window's parts and operation.

Why Save Historic Windows

Check out this SlideShare Presentation: Jo-Anne Peck from Preservation Resource, Inc., and Historic Shed recently gave an awesome presentation at an historic window workshop entitled, "Gut fish, not houses, why and how you should save your historic wood windows." These are the slides to her presentation.

Why Save Historic Windows

View more presentations from Jo-anne Peck.

Clip from the Gut fish, not houses window workshop

South Floridians have an opposite scenario facing historic wood windows than many people up north are used to. From what I understand, up there, keeping cold air out is critical. Down here, its so hot that it would help us to get cold air in. The way we save money with our windows down here is to get the tops working, let the hot air out and get the air circulating. If our historic wood windows worked, we'd cut the need for our A/C down considerably, thus saving energy.

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The City of St. Petersburg, as well as other proponents of historic preservation are hosting a workshop to promote restoring historic wood windows. I am doing a live demonstration following Aimee Angel, historic planner for St. Petersburg speaks about tax incentives and Jo-Anne Peck from Preservation Resource, Inc and Historic Shed shares why we should save our historic windows.

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The Development of the Sash Window

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The Development of the Sash Window

Historic PVC Window

Here it is, the PVC window installed in the shower. Tile's in. Fixtures are in. Been showered on. It's a dream. Totally waterproof.

Chenneville Stairwell Window with Stained Glass

One day I'd like to learn how to do stained leaded glass. For the meantime I guess I'll have work with what I find. This particular piece the client had made for the opening. We did all the work around it.

Gothic Bullseye Complete

It's been a while since I've been to this particular home. I installed this round window before the plaster was completed. I've really been wanting to get this photo.