you take some glazing compound out of the can. like you did when you were a kid with play-doh, rub it in your hands and make a long skinny snake. put that on the little lip that the glass will rest on. push down gently to seat it. you can put a small jitterbug sander with NO PAPER on the glass to vibrate it set. get rid of the squeeze out. glaze front side of window.
Rehabbing historical windows
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you take some glazing compound out of the can. like you did when you were a kid with play-doh, rub it in your hands and make a long skinny snake. put that on the little lip that the glass will rest on. push down gently to seat it. you can put a small jitterbug sander with NO PAPER on the glass to vibrate it set. get rid of the squeeze out. glaze front side of window.
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So ended up having a glass shop come out and install some new glass.
I found a window that had been pulled out of an old home (about the same age as mine, it appeared), and pulled the glass from it. Ended up being quite easy as it was held in place with calk and a bit of molding. The shop cut it and installed it for me, also fixed another window that had been calked (poorly) but not glazed in. Total price was $100, would have been about $126 if the old glass had broken and I had to get a new sheet of glass.
The price of laminate made it not worth it, plus the groove where the window sits wasn't deep enough.
Looks like some removable storm windows are the next step, going to go the old fashioned route where they hang from the outside. That should be nearly as good as converting the windows to double pane, at a fraction of the cost and without destroying the way the home looks. Plus the windows are actually designed for them, so they should look like they were original.
I found a window that had been pulled out of an old home (about the same age as mine, it appeared), and pulled the glass from it. Ended up being quite easy as it was held in place with calk and a bit of molding. The shop cut it and installed it for me, also fixed another window that had been calked (poorly) but not glazed in. Total price was $100, would have been about $126 if the old glass had broken and I had to get a new sheet of glass.
The price of laminate made it not worth it, plus the groove where the window sits wasn't deep enough.
Looks like some removable storm windows are the next step, going to go the old fashioned route where they hang from the outside. That should be nearly as good as converting the windows to double pane, at a fraction of the cost and without destroying the way the home looks. Plus the windows are actually designed for them, so they should look like they were original.