Back at this fantastic cottage, we were getting on with the dormer window.
This window had very unusual housed glazing bars rather than a conventional fixed sash. Sadly, the bars were rotten beyond repair so we needed to replace them. Being Grade 2 listed, they needed to be like for like.
This job is great fun as it involves making up mouldings and matching them to the originals. It’s a perfect excuse to break out some of the more unconventional hand planes or make a scratch awl and do it the old fashioned way. It’s also surprisingly quick to do.
Once the mouldings are made up with rebates for the glass, you scribe in the joints so they’re nice a snug and scratch your head for a little while you work out the best way of jointing the ends into the jamb, mullion, transom and sill on the fixed half of the window. With the glazing bars in place, along with a new sill and the repaired sashes, we were ready for a session with the putty. Perfect weather, temperature and fresh putty make such a difference, especially when you’re up a ladder.
Our last job was to fix the root cause of that leak into the ground floor window (those of you paying attention will remember from last week). A tweak to the gutting and some lead soakers to replace the flashbanding and everything should be good for another hundred years or so.
True to form, Rob remembered to take the before pictures but not the after, so our sincere thanks to the homeowner for sharing their photos!
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