In addition to the mechanical restoration of wooden windows, we offer a wide variety of appearance restoration services:

• Glass Replacement
• Sash Painting
• Sash Re-varnishing
• Dip Stripping
• Epoxying and Re-building Damaged Sashes
• Stop and Sill Painting

Glass Replacement

Broken glass can be replaced with new or historic “wavy” glass. Broken bowed windows can be replaced with new, custom-made glass.

Sash Painting

Wooden sashes can be painted to specification with Benjamin Moore Paints or paint of your choice. All of our sash painting is done with the window out of the opening. This allows attention to detail that is often grossly overlooked when sashes are painted in place. All articulating edges of the sash are sanded to bare wood before re-painting. This eliminates the presence of leaded paint underneath articulating surfaces that tend to wear down over time. There are two options for restoring putty. Putty is the hard material on the outside of the sash that hold the glass in place. The exterior of the sash can re-puttied in areas that have loose or missing putty or all the putty can be replaced through dipping and stripping the sashes.

Sash Re-varnishing

Sashes can be varnished to a variety of finish colors and glosses. Some windows that have been painted may be restored to their original wood surface. This depends greatly on the original quality of the wood and the presence of water damage.

Dip Stripping

Generally windows are dipped only when natural wood surfaces need to be revealed and/or re-varnished. The bad press on furniture dipping comes from the days when lye stripping in hot tanks was a principal method for removing finishes. Hot water and lye are harsh on wood. If dipping is the solution for your windows, we employ a far less stressful method. Sashes will be dipped in a cold tank filled with furniture stripper. The finish is scrubbed off and the residue is washed off with lacquer thinner or water. This process occasionally leads to some glass breakage.

Epoxying and Re-building Damaged Sashes

Even sashes that have fallen apart or completely rotted in areas can re re-built to be stronger than their original state. We use an epoxy that has proven to be dramatically effective in combating the problems of material fracturing and bonding failure. This epoxy can be easily sanded and painted.

Stop and Sill Painting

The stops (vertical strips of wood trim that hold the wind in the frame) can be re-painted to match the window trim after mechanical restoration. The middle sill (the sill that is between the bottom sash and the storm) can be scraped, filled, and painted to finish with Benjamin Moore Porch Paint.