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Decay pockets in sill can be stabilized for 1 to 5 years by covering them with painter's tape, and priming and painting over the tape.

To avoid cracking the glass when pushing points: - Rock the putty knife and point from side to side, which eases the point into the wood. - Use an angled putty knife so the force of driving the point is directly towards the wood and not angled down onto the glass as with a straight putty knife. http...

Erin, excellent !

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The wood does get wet, but the moisture soaks into the wood only about 1/16" to 1/8" deep, and this is only where bare wood is exposed to the steam. Where there is paint and putty the moisture may not penetrate the wood at all, or at most 1/16". The shorter steaming times reduces how ...

My shop is in the barn that is connected to the back of the house with a breezeway. It is 28'x38', 1064 sq.ft. For production I'm a one-person shop, I seldom work on more that 6 or 8 sash at a time. A few times I've had 20 or 30 sash with two more people working production with me and there was enou...

Shawn Woolery of San Diego Sash Company has had a batch of sash pins made by Maze Nails, the 150 year old American specialty nail manufacturer. Maze used to regularly produce sash pins, but discontinued the item years ago. A batch is a minimum of 1000 #, so let Shawn or Bill know what you need. If t...

Sash are made so that they can be disassembled for repairs. Removing Steel Sash Pins To get steel pins out of wood sash joints: Find the pin's exact location Locate the steel pin with a magnetic stud-finder. Locating the pin from both faces of the sash will give you an indication if the pin is on an...

Traditional linseed oil and whiting putty has been tested and developed over four centuries of making and maintaining wood windows. It has been proven that simple linseed oil and whiting putty is better than anything that has been tried. ==> easily and economically applied ==> durable, lasts 20 to 5...

SANY9719.JPG Photo: Wall Rack above, mobile Sash Cart below For decades I had worked on only 2 or 3 windows at a time. It was easy to find a place in the shop to set a few windows while putty skinned over and paint dried. Then, I got a project working on 43 sash and had to get much more efficient h...

>>What about having double pane glass inserts made and just glaze them in permanently?<< Disadvantages to consider: -- the seal of the inserts may only last from 5 to 20 years, and then they may begin to fog up and need to be replaced -- the existing sash may need to be routed out to get the inserts...