It’s been over a month since I last posted! Partly because we’ve been really busy at our ever-expanding day job (the interior of the house may be finished, but now there are outbuildings and site work issues to tackle) and partly because not much has happened at the house in town.
Jim did find the time to remove the lower sashes of four attic windows for repairs, however. The deteriorating sashes were cleaned and re-glued. The endgrains were sealed with epoxy before priming and painting. I don’t know how he does it, honestly. At the end of a day working on other people’s buildings the last thing I want to do is work on more stuff, even if it is my own. I barely have enough energy to go home, crack open a cold one and drool over the latest posts on Old House Dreams!
Now that the repaired sashes are installed, we can get a taste of what the other window sashes will look like when they are all eventually painted in their original black…
They look great!
I honestly hadn’t noticed the stained glass before either!
The black really helps to delineate the sash from the surrounding trim. When the upper sash is painted black, I think the stained glass will really pop!
Looks awesome! The black on the sashes is a nice touch. Thanks for updating!
Glad you like it! I’ll try to post more frequently now… life has been hectic lately.
That looks great. Now I need to go pop a cold one. . .good advice. It does really help highlight the stained glass – I too didn’t really notice it before. I’m impressed Jim seals the end grain. Someone 100 years from now will be really thankful.
Hopefully the house (and town) will still be here in another century! Sealing the end grain will not only prevent future water-wicking in the sash but will (theoretically) help with long-term paint adhesion as well. I didn’t mention it above, but Jim also brushed liquid epoxy into the putty beds (after the old putty was removed). The goal is to saturate all vulnerable spots on the house in the hopes that we won’t have as much maintenance to do when we’re really old!