Custom Wood Replicas

A northeast Portland neighborhood. Not far from Irving Park.

If you click on the first photo to enlarge it, you may be able to make out the fact that there are two of these large window assemblies, one each on either side of the front door.

We were initially called out to look at the failed insulated glass in these windows, but of course as soon as we arrived and walked up the steps to the front door, we glanced over at these wood windows and could see that most of the sashes were in an advanced state of decay.

There was some checking going on in some of the sill components, but by and large, the rest of the assemblies looked pretty good. So it was determined to simply replace these Marvin sash with new custom-made wood windows.

It was determined that the flanking sash with the round top glass would be replaced with 9-lite SDL muntin pattern. Steve and Bruce are shown here as they begin to remove the Marvin sash.

As always, careful measures are taken to minimize the unnecessary spread of dust and debris.

We worked with Wooddale Windows in Oregon City (http://wooddalewindows.net) for the manufacture of these custom windows, and of course they were perfect.

They were exactly what we specified. Wooddale Windows having the ability to manufacture custom sash with SDL (simulated-divided-lites) fills a very important niche for us.

For the uninitiated, Simulated Divided Lites are, as the term suggests, a simulation of there being separate pieces of glass in the one window sash. The wood muntins that help provide the simulation are permanently affixed (adhered) to the glass on both the interior and the exterior.

This is a substantial improvement over the wood-grids that always fell off the windows, or the massive muntins that were used for a season to actually achieve True-Divided-Lites for insulated glass, instead of the common 7/8″ muntins that were used for over a hundred years with single-pane glass. Our client loved the windows.