Get Your Hundred Year Old Double Hung Wood Windows Working First, Before ANYTHING else
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- If you aren’t doing the Mechanical Makeover to your historic double hung wood window first, you are doing it the hard way. My way sets the work up for efficiency.
1. Change the ropes.
2. Remove the paint buildup
3. Nail the parting bead and stops on the left hand side
4. Prime it (for paint grade)…
Don’t overcomplicate it. Don’t overthink it. If you have to change the parting beads, so be it. If you have to change the stops, fine. If you are a pro you should be able to do two of these a day, minimum. If you can’t do this yet, that’s fine. Practice until you can, there’s plenty of this work out there. Go get some. Or come help me. Either way - help.
Love you guys,
Steve
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Cant stop binge watching your videos Sir .
Good info in your videos. But did you notice the Cardinal singing in the background throughout the entire video? That was one happy bird.
Man I can't afford the bronze weatherstripping. I have an early 1900's 2 story home. 25 large windows downstairs and near about that mamy upstairs. What is a cheaper alternative for me? I am on SSI. YIKES!!
Wow!! This is a tremendous help.
What state do you work out of? I’d like to have my windows looked at
I am trying to replace my rope on the windows, but my house does not have the little door to get to the weights. How do you do that? My house was built in 1910, four square. Great video!!
Is it all right to just prime the sides without then painting, or does it really need a coat of paint? I just want to seal it, and I like the look of simple white on the tracks as kind of a backdrop for whatever color goes on the sashes and trim.
Actually I like the way you are talking about better because the window actually works better. Most of the time when we paint the tracks it’s because culturally we’ve been trained to do so. Primer is fine.
Question : what would be the space between the parting bead and the windows ?
Wait! You can't leave the right side loose? What holds those in?
Do you prime and paint with both the parting beads in before installing the sashes? Do you score and remove one for the install?
Yes. I nail the left and leave the right “loose” until the sashes go in for the final time. I do it this way because first, you have to have a place to hold it while you paint it, and this works good for that. Second, it keeps from getting paint on the wrong part of the parting bead and making it too thick to go back into the track.
What material do you prefer (species of wood) to make new parting bead and/or stops?
Typically I like regular clear pine.
@@WoodWindowMakeover Thank you. I have found your videos very helpful and look forward to applying what I have learned to my old wood windows.
What is the appropriate price to charge for attaching ropes, punching out pulleys and adjusting sashes?
I’m at a loss with the price increases
Great question. I’ve been thinking a lot about this very thought, and it’s not easy because there are a large number of hidden facts people don’t know to consider. For example - who is doing the work? I’ve been asking, exploring and thinking about “how much does a Carpenter make?” This is an important thing to know. Because carpenters are employed in different ways. Sometimes they are self employed, other times they work for someone else. Which of these is doing the work? If a Carpenter charges $40 per hour and it takes him all day to do one, then the cost of doing the one is about $320. Maybe the Carpenter is really good and can do two a day. Then the cost of one goes to half that. But then someone will say, if it takes an average Carpenter 8 hours at $40 an hour for a cost of $320, and we all agree they the value of that unit of work is $320, then it would be a deal to get two done for $500. That’s where being a really good Carpenter comes in, and someone’s skill really pays off. If an even better Carpenter comes along and can do 3 in a day, maybe the fee for the three is $700.
We haven’t accounted for the painting aspect of the project either though, which would introduce another level of mental gymnastics.
Here’s another thing - finding a Carpenter at all. An Actual Carpenter. Most anyone, if they are any good, get sucked up by those willing to pay more. So oftentimes a person is stuck with just trusting an individual with figuring it out.
It’s actually a hard question and hard to give a definite answer. But those are some things to consider when thinking about price.
Thank you for your help Steve. No one more helpful than you these days
It’s been a long struggle with pricing out mechanical repairs along with cosmetic ones but I’m almond there
I’m from England and I renovate sash windows for a living , to renovate and draughtproof a window , I charge £350 , the most common repair is replacing rotten cills , obviously not every window needs a new cill but if it does then a new hardwood replacement is £100 . I can normally do a window and a cill a day or if the cills are ok , I could do one and a half windows a day . So to answer your question, I aim to earn £450/500ish per day
Do you have a favorite replacement sash cord?
Pretty much I only use Samson Spot Cord, size #8 (1/4”). There’s a couple of other brands out there that may work, but nothing locally available - rope from Home Depot or Lowe’s is junk.
@@WoodWindowMakeover Good to know. Thanks!
So good to find you -- QUESTION -- I was watching Build Show Network with Rissinger and a Bret Hull who restores windows. He claimed that single hung windows are "better" than double hung as they seal out the weather much better. Do you believe that to be true - we live in the north and have well built 1940s house with single hung but we were thinking to having made double hung (properly made with solid wood etc) but we don't know if that would be a mistake. We are in the cold zone 5 and can see -15 C / 5 F temperatures in dead of winter. Our current windows work very well in winter although we do have storm windows. They seem to work as well as new windows do (we have friends who installed triple pane and they were no better than ours with storms) and then they leaked and fogged up)..
Single-hung windows will definitely be more thermally efficient, but single-hung windows do not allow you to easily vent warm air out of your home during warm weather by lowering your top sash. Personally, I think single-hung windows are a poor choice if you like fresh air in your home and warm air removed.
@@deanmurphy7874 ..well we want the double hung and we were blown away by double hung windows in England. CZcams has some British videos of craftmen restoring/repairing and building new ones and they are so so nice. But we can't find a proper explanation video that shows why double hung are leaky windows. What gives? Why can't they be nice and air tight too? Is there a proper video that showes this and specifically highlights the weakness or strenght of both systems?