Our next customer is a window from the 18 that definitely needs some body work. I believe that if we only replace the bottom rail, it will be sufficient. The interior paint on the top rail and the two channels is probably OK.
The exterior will certainly need a complete repaint, but that won't be hard.
With a little work, the bottom rail is removed from the rest of the window. This particular window already was rebuilt in the shops at some point. The bottom inch or so was replaced with a new piece of wood, as I mentioned before, and then they added some hardware to help keep it together. I don't know what these things (yellow arrows) are called, but there's a flat head machine screw that fits into a threaded shaft, and it holds the window together even while the wood is decaying. You can see where new holes were drilled into the channel and the rail (red arrows). Now I just need some more poplar.
Update: Before and after
The yellow arrow is pointing to Brass "Barrel Bolts", typically used to hold brass sash together.
ReplyDeleteThat's completely different from what I always thought of as barrel bolts, but arguing with Bill Wulfert is a hopeless proposition. I guess it depends on the context.
ReplyDeleteAlso known as Chicago Screws, commonly used to hold Ledgers together.
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I had forgotten about those ledger screws, but you're right, it's the same basic idea. The difference is that the ledger screws were designed to make it easy to add and remove pages, not the case with putting window sash together. Those were the days, when they'd keep huge amounts of financial and personnel records on stacks of pages bolted together. Before the invention of the thumb drive. :)
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