Inching Along
I am now working on the three dining room windows. The sashes will be reglazed and painted in place. Ugh. Almost all the other windows in the house have been taken out and restored in the basement workroom. But the center window is too huge to remove, and the curved windows are too difficult to remove and too scary to move around.
The curved windows were reglazed about a decade ago. The glazing is in poor condition, was applied unevenly (oh, the horror!), and is too wide. By the latter I mean that it is wider than the INSIDE wood of the window. So, when standing in the dining room looking out, you can see the back of the glazing. Oh, the horror!
To rectify all three issues I had to cut the glazing back. On the left is the wood sash. Adjacent (to the right) is the cut-back glazing. To its right is the back of the INSIDE sash edge. Now, I can reglaze.
Done properly, glazing should be just a bit narrower than the interior width of the wood sash. The glass sits in a kinda corner, and glazing then fills out that corner. When the glazing is dry, you paint it. The paint should go ON the glass (which helps keep water from getting under the glazing and ruining it), and the paint should, ideally, align perfectly with the inside edge of the sash.
I slop paint on the glass with no concern to being neat. When the paint is dry, I take a 6-inch putty knife, rest it on the glass and against the glazing, and with a SHARP straight-edge razor, cut away the extraneous paint. The result is…perfection. And quick and easy, too!
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Amazing stuff!
Wow. I never really understood what glazing was before. I learned a lot from your well-written text and that nifty drawing.
Me too!
I tediously taped the paint lines on the glass when I restored the windows in our last house. On our current house, I am definitely going to use your technique. It sounds so much easier!
I also would be scared to remove the curved windows, or that giant one. I had one 36×48″ pane in our last house, and while I nearly left it in place, I did end up removing it to restore the sash. I was quite surprised to get it out and reinstalled in one piece!
Nifty technique! I knew nothing about glazing windows. Your knowledge & expertise combined w illustrations were so helpful with gaining an understanding. It is still hard work but you seem to have it down to a science!!
I never understood the edge of glazing. Great explanation. Thank.
I enjoy when you explain the techniques you use! Thanks!